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CHRISTIE’S: Two interiors designers, 289 lots, one empty room

Find out what happened when Christie’s challenged myself and Christopher Howe to furnish an empty room in their King Street galleries, using pieces offered in their Interiors sale on 31 January which totalled, including buyer’s premium, GBP 1,753,250. Full online story hereYou can view all the results of the sale hereLondon-based interior designer Fabrice Bana specialises in bespoke, antique and…

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW with FABRICE BANA on CAMERA at the DESIGN CENTRE CHELSEA HARBOUR

    I was briefly interviewed by the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour last Monday during Design Week 2018 after my talk with Jean-Louis Deniot to discuss his furniture collaboration Sparkx with Marc de Berny at their showroom (see previous post). You can watch the short video by clicking here               

A-GENT of STYLE in conversation with JEAN-LOUIS DENIOT at LONDON DESIGN WEEK 2018

  Come and join me on Monday 5 March at 5pm at the Marc de Berny showroom at Chelsea Harbour Design Centre where I will be in conversation with international interior designer Jean-Louis Deniot to talk about his Sparkx collection and interior design, followed by the book signing of his book Jean-Louis Deniot Interiors. To secure your place: RSVP [email protected]  

Please come and join me at Christie’s King Street on Monday 15 January 6-8.30pm for Christie’s Latex: The Lifestyle Edition where I will be showing the space I have curated and styled for their forthcoming interiors sale including the collection of Sir David Tang, Bywell Hall and Howe, London.  I will be in conversation with Andy Waters, Christie’s Curatorial Director, at 8pm in the Gallery…

2017 was pretty good for A-Gent of Style. Getting the Designer Profile feature in the December issue of House & Garden was the highlight of the year and a wonderful Christmas present for which I am extremely grateful. Launching the website fabricebana.com was also a milestone.January 2018 has already got a few exciting projects in the pipeline. The best has yet to come…Let’s trust the magic of…

Please come and join us for what will be an interesting and thought-provoking talk.

AN EDUCATED EYE: RATEAU for JEANNE LANVIN and other CHEFS d’OEUVRE

  Tomorrow afternoon in Paris, Christie’s will be auctioning from a private collection some important and striking pieces of the 20th C and 21st C by design maestros such as Rulhmann, Printz, Anthonioz and Jean-Michel Frank. First and foremost is a selection below of collectibles that grabbed A-Gent of Style‘s attention.    You can view the full catalogue here.  But most importantly, there will…

GIVENCHY and his GIACOMETTIS

A seminal sale in the world of interiors is looming. In a few hours, in Paris, important objets that were the result of a fruitful and exciting collaboration between two giants in the worlds of art and fashion of the 20th C will be,  A-Gent of Style predicts, snapped by fervent collectors. Albeit small as it contains only twenty-one pieces, the auction under the aegis of Christie’s has already…

Joséphine Bonaparte was actually born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pager. Try that as an Instagram handle! But in today’s world, the once French Empress would probably be known on social media and in celebrity magazines as JoBo. The Martinique-born lover and first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, Rose de Beauharnais (she was married first to the aristocrat Alexandre de Beauharnais) was renamed…

BIRDS of a FEATHER: JANAINA MILHEIRO & ROBERT FOUR-AUBUSSON

There have been a few definite highlights during Paris Déco Off this year for A-Gent of Style and today’s feature is one of his favourite discoveries. The exhibition was just on his door step in Saint-Germain-des-Près and he could have easily missed it so a big thank you to Bruno de Caumont for taking him to the opening. We were transfixed. Let us hope you are too…The Robert Four-Aubusson Gallery…

IN CONVERSATION WITH RACHEL BATES at CHRISTIE’S LATES

A-Gent of Style is thrilled and honoured to be Rachel Bates’s special guest tomorrow evening at Christie’s Lates. The delightful interior and product designer will be in conversation with me to discuss ‘the most important colour in the universe’ as part of the Colour and Form theme. We hope to see as many of you as possible. Tuesday 7 February 2017The Hangar Gallery 7.15pm Christie’s South…

ANCIEN & MODERNE 2017

The biggest event in the design calendar in January was undoubtedly in Paris at Maison & Objet and Paris Déco Off. A-Gent of Style was honoured to be for the 3rd time jury member of the Déco Off this year which took him on a whirlwind of launches, talks, events, networking, and many many meals and parties all around the French capital with old and new design friends . One of the most-anticipated…

FLEUR COWLES, FLAIR & CHRISTIE’S

Like A-gent of Style, some of you might admire (and get easily entertained) by larger-than-life characters from the world of publishing and fashion such as Diana Vreeland and Anna Winter – and documentaries about their respective career such as The Eye has to Travel and The September Issue (the newly released The First Monday in May has proven to be a very entertaining). Not many people however…

LILOU GRIMBACH-MARQUAND – SCREEN SAVER – and PIASA

  “I love light and I hate to see windows cluttered up by kilos of fabric, however precious it might be! A window is an opening on the exterior – a link to life.”   It wasn’t until he received the catalogue of the forthcoming Piasa sale last week that A-Gent of Style discovered for the first time Lilou Grumbach-Marquand and fell instantly head over heels for her work. Keen to delve into her work,…

VOTE for ME: BEST INTERIOR DESIGNER or STYLIST BLOG at the AMARA INTERIOR BLOG AWARDS 2016

  A-Gent of Style is thrilled and flattered to announce his nomination as Best Interior Designer or Stylist Blog at the Amara Interior Blog Award 2016.  Only the top 5 bloggers with the most votes for each category will make the shortlist and get an invite to the awards, so if you would like to vote for me and A-Gent of Style to win, click on the link below and enter your vote. Voting closes on…

picture from @masterpiecelondonSummer in London means Masterpiece, one of the landmark events in London’s collecting calendar, which opened last Thursday to the public. As a huge devotee of antiques and art fairs, A-Gent of Style was eager to witness this year’s edition, now in its 7th year, and attended the decorator preview on Wednesday, his enthusiasm hugely enhanced in the last few weeks by…

The ORIGINAL CUSHION Co

When you think there isn’t any more room for yet another home decorating business in this saturated market, enters the Original Cushion Cº. This new, exciting venture will come as a relief and possibly a godsend to most decorators in search of a quick fix to an ongoing conundrum.   The Original Cushion Cº is an online selling platform that offers a collection of fine, limited edition, designer…