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fashion designer Rick Owens and his wife–slash–creative partner
have been making furniture—first for themselves
then in limited editions for sale—most recently at a workshop in Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry
about a 45-minute drive from their home in Paris
“I don’t adhere to a very cozy aesthetic,” admits Owens
whose unconventional runway shows might feature a one-legged
one-sleeved cashmere jumpsuit or a live human
“I like something a bit austere and unsentimental.” But when
they designed what Owens calls a “brutalist Bauhaus recamier,” inspiration came from an old
more-frivolous-than-usual adage: “A lady never stands when she can sit and never sits when she can recline.”
The bon mot (Owens thinks it was uttered by Mae West) spawned a perch with a decidedly cheerful name: the Double Bubble
Conceptualized by Owens and realized by Lamy (this is how they work)
shaped like a capsule on feet with its middle cut out
was made first in plywood and later in concrete
Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy’s double bubble in The Beverly Hills home of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi by Clements Design