Antique and vintage furnishings decorate the living room, which is crowned by an Alexandre Logé chandelier. Robert Marc painting.
Cerruti DraimeCasiraghi likes to fresco his walls and ceilings. He’s commissioned constellations for the ceiling of his own charming at, and had fanciful nymphs painted on the walls of the Proust salon at Drouant, the iconic Paris eatery that he just redid top to bottom. But the more he thought about it, the more he felt that such whimsy wouldn’t quite work here. “In an apartment that is already so decorated on its own, it’s better to go with something more geometric,” says Casiraghi. “So we took forms à la Ellsworth Kelly, which is a reference that always comes in with me.” And there they are, two chunky, unexpected blue shapes hovering above you as you enter, startling but also right.
Casiraghi certainly has touchstones—his “paw,” as the French put it. Kelly, frescoes, Wiener Werkstätte, rounded corners, and lacquer are a few elements that show up regularly, but you have to look hard to see his paw print. “I don’t have a real signature—if I had a style now, at age 33, what would I do at 50? I prefer adapting myself to the client and listening a lot.”
In the children's bedroom, the custom headboards and canopies are made of a Pierre Frey fabric. A 1950s table lamp sits atop a 19th-century English side table.
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In the master bath, 19th-century prints hang above The Water Monopoly tub. The striped curtains are made of an outdoor fabric by Dedar.
Cerruti DraimeCasiraghi's projects all start with a mood board of evocative images sent in by the client, and this one did too. But the mood board is never meant as a blueprint. It’s more of a signpost toward an unknown destination. “What I like about Fabrizio is that he didn’t come back with the same images as ours,” says Madame. In the kitchen, for instance, Casiraghi proposed a brick-colored terrazzo tile floor. Terrazzo has been basic Milanese vernacular for a long time—Casiraghi’s grandmother’s house had terrazzo floors. She loved the idea, but in Paris, terrazzo is a novelty that is currently having its moment. It’s a little m’as tu vu—“Hey, look at me.”
“I don’t trust things that are too à la mode,” says the homeowner, who happens to work in the fashion business. “It’s a little like seeing a movie with an actor who’s too well known. You’ve got this incredible story, and then you find yourself saying, ‘Wait, isn’t that . . . ?’ ” In the end, the owners suggested using old tomettes, the glazed terra-cotta tiles that you see all over France. “It’s the French version of the terrazzo, but we never would have ended up there without Fabrizio’s original proposal.”
Nobilis fabric-covered sofas flank a custom mirrored cocktail table in the living room. Art (from left) by Georges Rouault and Auguste Herbin; 1970s chrome table lamps atop custom plexiglas side tables.
Cerruti DraimeOf course, there was some pushing and pulling along the way. When is there not? Particularly when forceful personalities with strong preferences are collaborating, as they were here. “At the beginning, I think it was not so easy for Fabrizio,” says Madame. “There’s what I like, and there’s what Monsieur mon mari likes, and our taste isn’t always the same. Sometimes it’s like we’re in two different countries.”
Solomonic compromises were occasionally required. Monsieur doesn’t really like tassels, for instance. Madame loves them (as does Casiraghi). So the orange tassel on the big Noguchi ceiling lantern in the dining room gets hung when her friends come to dinner, and removed when they leave. Mostly, though, everybody’s tastes ultimately converged, to the point where it became difficult to tell whose paw was whose. “A friend of ours came over and said, ‘You can see it’s Fabrizio, but at the same time, it’s totally you.’ ” Which is exactly the compliment Madame was hoping for.
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