In Paris with “virtuoso of colour” designer India Mahdavi, who talks about colour, cartoons and her upcoming exhibition at the NGV.
India Mahdavi spots me staring into the window of her Left Bank showroom and laughs at my evident perplexity: the furniture on display is made from pristine white marble, gleaming as a bleached coral reef. What happened to the designer“Don’t worry,” she says with an enigmatic grin, “I’m still polyglot and polychrome.
It’s as if a pandemic doesn’t separate this and our last meeting in September 2019 when we began discussing her scenography for an exhibition of works by post-impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard at the National Gallery of Victoria. It’s finally due to open in June. Next, a row of her iconic Bishop stools in a dusty pink, a citrus yellow, disco mauve and a red that is approaching the shade of rich borscht – stand sentinel around two large dining tables which, pushed together, form the studio’s consultation space. On a section of wall, next to an elegantly arched doorway, Mahdavi and her team have taped enlarged copies of details from various Bonnard oil paintings, sometimes so close up as to pixellate into abstractions.
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