PRESENTATION AT THE RITZ

This season, Laura Gauthier Petit invites us to North Africa, from the Majorelle garden at the gateway to the Atlas mountains to the Oriental baths; an elegant journey in homage to the painter, the botanists and the Art Deco architecture of her villa atelier.

From one of her photographs, Laura Gauthier Petit explains that she created the main print of the collection, which bears the name, Le Jardin des Illustres, by magnifying the colours and contrasts the vegetation. The ultramarine blue is very present, punctuated by the powerful touches of bougainvilla fuchsia and ochre as a reminder of the garden.

To play with symbols, a statue of a woman by Ernest Barrias, representing Nature revealing itself to Science, has been placed on the print. Another print, Orsay, completes the collection. It is of Art Deco inspiration, just like the painter's studio villa. In a dark celadon colour, it brings the classical and geometrical rigour of its original period.