Updated : February 24, 2014. 04:40 PM
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Welcome to the Mademoiselle Collection
My personal design interpretation of how Coco Chanel's residence may
have looked in today’s world.
A few years back I came up with the phrase "A Contemporary Mood with
Classic Values" to describe my design philosophy, and then one day
I realized that this same adage could be used to describe the work of
Coco Chanel, a designer whose work I have long admired.
What surprises me when traveling the world is that elegance is a globally
understood language. When you think of Audrey Hepburn, an Aston
Martin or Chanel's little black dress, what they all have in common is
an exceedingly rare and enduring formula that goes beyond beauty,
transcends cultures and borders, and which is called Elegance. Elegance
is an attitude, and for the benefit of this collection I have coined the
term “Elegance with Edge".
When designing the collection, I imagined how Mademoiselle – a term
of endearment bestowed to Coco Chanel by her staff – would in this
present day furnish her home, and so I set out to craft pieces that reflect
the form, beauty and above all, elegance, of history’s greatest fashion
icon.
The designs on view are exclusively crafted in our award-winning ateliers
in Java, by many of the world’s finest master carvers. I hope that they
bring you as much pleasure to look at as I have had in their design and
making.
Warmest thanks,
Christopher Guy Harrison
