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Nesting Instinct
When Parisian collectors suggested wood paneling for the master bedroom of their hôtel particulier,
AD100 designer Pierre Yovanovitch proposed something radical—enlisting Tadashi Kawamata to create
a site-specific installation. Over the course of three weeks in 2017, the Japanese artist meticulously
assembled hundreds of unfinished planks into a wood cocoon aptly titled Nest in Bedroom. “While the
building is classic, the work itself is simple and unpretentious,” notes Yovanovitch. “I very much like to
play up this tension.” Accented by a bespoke chimneypiece, Campana Brothers lounge chairs, and a
midcentury Severin Hansen floor lamp, the never-before-published space is a standout from Yovanovitch’s
eagerly anticipated first monograph, Pierre Yovanovitch: Interior Architecture (Rizzoli, September). As
he puts it: “History-laden places are just waiting to be revived by a contemporary spirit.” —SAM COCHRAN JÉRÔME GALLAND
