This extraordinary set consisting of a sofa and an armchair was born from the collaboration between the legendary French actor Alain Delon and the prestigious Maison Jansen, one of the most renowned Parisian furniture houses of the 20th century, with Italian distribution by Mario Sabot.
Crafted in the early 1970s, these pieces represent one of Delon's rare forays into the world of interior design — a natural extension of his charismatic personality and refined aesthetic. An absolute icon of European cinema and a symbol of masculine elegance, Delon brings to the project the same tension between strength and sensuality that characterizes his cinematic interpretations.
The sofa and armchair, upholstered in the original fabric with a geometric tone-on-tone tobacco-colored pattern, are distinguished by their enveloping and sculptural shape, almost like a wave or a shell, in which each curve is designed to blend comfort and theatricality. The fan-shaped backrest, which opens like a scenographic drapery, is a clear reference to the cinematic and glamorous dimension of the period, but also to the idea of “refuge intime” that permeated Parisian interior design of those years.
Maison Jansen, famous for furnishing royal palaces, presidential residences, and high-society homes in Paris, London, and Buenos Aires, found in Delon an unexpected interpreter yet perfectly consistent with his aesthetic philosophy: combining classicism, theatricality, and modernity in a single vision.
Distributed in Italy by Mario Sabot, these furnishings were part of a luxury collection that testified to the growing cross-fertilization between cinema, fashion and design. Today the set presents itself as an absolute rarity, witnessing a moment in which film stars became true curators of style, and the furnishings, such as the clothes, participated in the construction of the myth.
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