Stunningly intricate and beguilingly textural, the handpainted wallpapers of de Gournay are a perennial—and stylistically wide-reaching—favorite among the world's best designers. A detail of de Gournay’s Saint Laurent pattern. Today, de Gournay artists produce a slightly modernized take on the design, which was evocative of Chinese patterns popular among Europeans at the time (when the notion of "Chinoiserie" was beginning to take shape). The original Chinese wallpaper in Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé’s Paris apartment. Painting a bird from the Saint Laurent pattern.

Source: The Local June 04, 2021 20:03 UTC