Christian Liaigre

Asked how he likes to define his work, Christian Liaigre will answer that he is an interior designer in the most complete sense. By which he means that nothing in his work is left to chance: from the positioning of the windows to the shape of the door handles, not forgetting furniture, lighting, woodwork, plaster moldings, seating, or the selection and colors of materials and fabrics. Everything is considered and planned down to the last detail. In this, Christian Liaigre is clearly working in a particular French tradition, the same tradition that made Versailles famous, where no detail was neglected. And yet Christian Liaigre always applies this rigorous approach with a highly individual touch. While never sacrificing his personal style, he adapts to each new project and its setting, the better to respect its roots, contributing an atmosphere of pleasure, calm, and ease to the existing features, and transforming the site as a whole, while at the same time making us feel that it has always been this way. To achieve this, Christian Liaigre draws inspiration from local traditions and materials: always natural, always hand-treated-sometimes even mistreated-to achieve the perfect color or patina. Plastics and perishable materials are banished. The sole aim is to enhance an interior with elegance and discretion, to find materials that will preserve and harmonize with their setting, and to express the characteristic essence of one man and his time: an individual style. Hence the un...