\n\u00a9 Roland Tisserand \u2013 at Atmosph\u00e8re d\u2019Ailleurs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
\u201cThis view of Swann\u2019s social atmosphere which prevailed in my family seemed to be confirmed later on by his marriage with a woman of the worst class, you might, you might almost say a \u201cfast\u201d woman, whom, to do him justice, he never attempted to introduce to us, for he continued to come to us alone, though he came more and more seldom ; but from whom they thought they could establish, on the assumption that he had found her there, the circle, unknown to them, in wich he ordinarily moved.\u201d<\/p>Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\n\u00a9 Roland Tisserand \u2013 at Atmosph\u00e8re d\u2019Ailleurs \u2013 Flowers by Debeaulieu<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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\nThe Circle of the Rue Royale<\/em><\/em>, James Tissot, 1868, Orsay museum Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nTansonville castle, Illiers-Combray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Swann, the character<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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This view of Swann\u2019s social atmosphere which prevailed in my family seemed to be confirmed later on by his marriage with a woman of the worst class, you might, you might almost say a \u00ab fast \u00bb woman, whom, to do him justice, he never attempted to introduce to us, for he continued to come to us alone, though he came more and more seldom ; but from whom they thought they could establish, on the assumption that he had found her there, the circle, unknown to them, in wich he ordinarily moved.<\/p>\nMarcel Proust, Swann<\/em>‘s Way<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Charles Swann is one of the main characters of In Search of Lost Time<\/em>. Born into a rich and bourgeois family, he frequents the high society of the Faubourg Saint-Germain. Swann flourishes in this worldly life because he can meet a lot of women:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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But Swann was so ardent a lover that, once he had got to know almost all the women of the aristocracy, once they had taught him all that there was to learn, he had ceased to regard those naturalization papers, almost a patent of nobility, which the Faubourg Saint-Germain.<\/p>\nMarcel Proust, Swann<\/em>‘s Way<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Combray\u2019s petty bourgeoisie didn\u2019t approve of his marriage to a tart named Odette de Cr\u00e9cy. The Narrator\u2019s parents didn\u2019t like her, so Swann use to come to dinner at their house alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This view of Swann\u2019s social atmosphere which prevailed in my family seemed to be confirmed later on by his marriage with a woman of the worst class, you might, you might almost say a \u201cfast\u201d woman, whom, to do him justice, he never attempted to introduce to us, for he continued to come to us alone, though he came more and more seldom ; but from whom they thought they could establish, on the assumption that he had found her there, the circle, unknown to them, in which he ordinarily moved.<\/p>\nMarcel Proust, Swann<\/em>‘s Way<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\n\u00a9 Anthony Guerr\u00e9e<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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\nExcerpt from the research notebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From literature to design <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Towards a reversible chair <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Swann is an acrobat balancing between two worlds. Anthony Guerr\u00e9e wanted to pay tribute to Swann\u2019s social agility by designing a reversible chair whose back can be the seat and the seat, the back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This chair also evokes the two ways of Combray, Swann\u2019s way and the Guermantes way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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For there were, in the environs of Combray, two “ways” which we used to take for our walks, and so diametrically opposed that we would actually leave the house by a different door, according to the way we had chosen: the way towards M\u00e9s\u00e9glise- la-Vineuse, which we called also “Swann\u2019s way” because, to get there, one had to pass along the boundary of M. Swann\u2019s estate, and the “Guermantes way”.<\/p>\nMarcel Proust, Swann<\/em>‘s Way<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\n\u00a9 Roland Tisserand \u2013 at Atmosph\u00e8re d\u2019Ailleurs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
Dimensions : 97 x 52 x h 97 cm s.h. 45 cm Structure in solid bleached ash Vegetable-tanned neck-leather color \u00ab naturel \u00bb Signed et numbered (limited edition 8 pieces) Made in France<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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