#Jacques Grange

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Library in the Paris home of Jacques Grange.

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The famous Jacques Grange style is displayed in its most perfect form in the living room... On the mantelpiece is a bust by Gimond; this corner of the room is simple in its arrangement and muted in color - but the windows look out on the green world of the Palais Royal gardens.

The French Touch: Decoration and Design in the Most Beautiful Homes in France, 1988

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Yves Saint Laurent at Home

Life with Yves and Pierre

Jacques Grange,  Laurence Benaïm

Photographs by Marianne Haas

Assouline, New York  2022, 240 pages, over 200 illustrations,  24.8 x 3.1cm,    Silk Hardcover,  ISBN: 9781649801234

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Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé were worldbuilders of an unparalleled caliber; true tastemakers who approached each interior project with imagination and rigeur, crafting grand spaces infused with personality and provenance. Connoisseurs in every sense of the word with a deep knowledge and appreciation for art and interior design, the two built and lived among a spectacular and carefully-considered collection. In close collaboration with world-class designer Jacques Grange, they crafted private spaces full of wonder and enchantment.Readers are invited to discover the couple’s savoir-faire through the most exquisite photographs of the interiors and gardens of Yves’s Château Gabriel, the dacha in Deauville; the Villa Majorelle in Marrakech; the apartment on rue de Babylone and his maison de couture on avenue Marceau. With photographs by Marianne Haas, and texts and special contributions from Jacques Grange, Catherine Deneuve, Betty Catroux, Laurence Benaïm, Louis Benech and other members of Yves’ tribe, the creative couple’s legacy lives on.

26/12/22

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Robert Agostinelli’s home, Paris, circa 2009, by Jacques Grange. From Petrone Studio

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Yves Saint Laurent, François-Marie Banier, Jed Johnson, Pierre Bergé, Jacques Grange and Thadèe Klossowski de Rola at La Mamounia Hotel in Marrakech, 1972.

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House by Hector Guimard interior by Jacques Grange Follow Souda on Tumblr

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House by Hector Guimard interior by Jacques Grange Follow Research.Lighting on Tumblr Source: https://soudasouda.tumblr.com/post/747678836041433088/house-by-hector-guimard-interior-by-jacques

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Gustav Mahler allegedly advised to spend less time studying counterpoint and to read more Dostoevsky. In Mahler as in novels, happiness comes best at the edge of catastrophe

‘how a musical idea, seemingly exhausted, rekindles itself through the unexpected emergence of one of its facets suddenly revealed, how a main phrase becomes secondary under the intrusion of a counterpoint that consciously takes precedence, how this perpetual change of hierarchy occurs…’

Video: Gustav Mahler, Ninth Symphony (adagio). Leonard Bernstein

Adorno: “During a walk with Schönberg and his students, Gustav Mahler allegedly advised the latter to spend less time studying counterpoint and to read more Dostoevsky. If Mahler’s music recalls great novels, it’s not just because it often seems to tell a story. The very curve it describes is novelistic: the way it rises to exceptional situations and collapses. It performs gestures comparable to that of Natasha, the heroine of 'The Idiot,’ burning banknotes, or to Jacques Collin, the convict disguised as a Spanish priest who, in Balzac, prevents young Lucien de Rubempré from suicide and elevates him to temporary splendor. In Mahler as in novels, happiness comes best at the edge of catastrophe. (…) The attitude of those who lament Mahler’s lengthiness is no better than that of promoters of abridged versions of Fielding, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. The generous temporal extension of Mahler’s music… makes no concessions to the comfort of easy listening, which spares the listener from any memory and expectation. His music embraces duration. Mahler makes those who have outlived him shudder like a boat journey makes frequent flyers shudder. Mahlerian duration reminds them that they themselves have lost duration. (…) The epic symphony savors time, surrenders to it; it seeks to materialize measurable time in living duration. It sees in duration itself the image of meaning, perhaps in reaction to the disgrace that duration begins to suffer in the mode of production of advanced industrialism and in corresponding forms of consciousness. Music must cease to deceive the listener about time through a true 'auditory illusion’; time must not pretend to be the moment it is not. Schubert’s celestial lengths were already the antithesis of such an attitude.” (Translated from French. Theodor W. Adorno: Mahler, A Musical Physiognomy)

Pierre Boulez: “Adorno is right about the novelistic structure in Mahler, but he doesn’t delve deep into the analysis. His reflection doesn’t rely on the description of the form, whereas there is so much to say about the form in Mahler, especially in all the finales, which are truly the pages of the highest complexity ever written in music. It would have been fascinating, for example, to show how a musical idea, seemingly exhausted, rekindles itself through the unexpected emergence of one of its facets suddenly revealed, how a main phrase becomes secondary under the intrusion of a counterpoint that consciously takes precedence, how this perpetual change of hierarchy occurs… For instance, consider the adagio of the Ninth, a kind of extraordinary extension of Tristan’s gruppetto: it is truly the Liebestod magnified, amplified by polyphony, and something Wagner would never have dared to dream.” (Translated from French. October 26, 1988, Questions to Pierre Boulez, by Henry-Louis de La Grange, MUSICAL, Châtelet Review - Paris Musical Theater: Mahler and France)

Video: Isolde’s Liebestod “Mild und leise” - Richard Wagner, Waltraud Meier, 1995

'consider the adagio of the Ninth (Gustav Mahler), a kind of extraordinary extension of Tristan’s gruppetto: it is truly the Liebestod magnified, amplified by polyphony, and something Wagner would never have dared to dream'

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Elegant Stained Glass Living Room

House by Hector Guimard interior by Jacques Grange - Cozy interior with towering stained glass windows, classic furniture, and a serene garden view. Follow Ceramic City on Tumblr Source: https://soudasouda.tumblr.com/post/747678836041433088/house-by-hector-guimard-interior-by-jacques