The French artist and designer Joy de Rohan Chabot has created a fairy tale world with her exuberant works and her joie de vivre.
JOY. Her name could not be more appropriate. That's what she is, Joy! Her voice trilling like a bird about all her projects, her travels, her enthusiasms, her exhibitions.
Her full name is Joy de Rohan Chabot. Her studio looks like an old London house filled with exquisite objects of bejeweled glasses, plates, vases, chandeliers and mirrors. I think of it as Aladdin's cave. She can create anything you want, and so many people I know order her one-of-a-kind plates and glasses by the dozen, like Valentino, Jacqueline de Ribes and many others.
As a young girl she longed to become a dancer, but her mother was opposed to a career in the arts. At 17, she convinced her mother to send her to the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. At 28 she started doing paintings for Régine's clubs and went all over the world to do so. She went to Beijing by herself for three months to study lacquer and is proud to have seen Mao in his coffin at the time. For several years she made lacquer screens and other pieces for Jansen, the famous decorating firm in Paris, and later made furniture for Lanvin as well. She had a truly glorious show at the Musée Jacquemart-André in 2008, where lines of people were queuing up to see her work. I was fortunate enough to be one of them, and have a beautiful book to always remind me what a life-enhancing spirit she is.
Her work is her obsession, her driving force. Her family is what makes her happiest. She has great compassion for people, animals and nature. If I were asked what woman I would like to be stranded on a desert island with, no question it would be Joy!
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DE ROHAN CHABOT keeps a studio in a greenhouse that she built off the side of her town house in Paris, where she creates her collection of tableware: delicate tumblers, bowls, goblets and plates adorned with tiny wildflowers, tangled fronds of vegetation and under-the-sea scenes. Delphine Arnault fell so in love that she commissioned 700 plates for her wedding in 2005. In another greenhouse at her family's chateau in Auvergne, de Rohan Chabot makes larger pieces in collaboration with a nearby foundry.
"I always said if I hadn't painted or created furniture, I would have been a gardener," says the artist, who once modeled for photographers like David Bailey and Helmut Newton. "It's one of the things I love," she says of the gardens she keeps around her home in Paris. "I have trees in front so I don't see the town. I can think I'm in the country when I'm here; it's the charm of the place."
"IT'S LIKE AN OLD SHOE," de Rohan Chabot says of the house in the 16th Arrondissement where she and her family have lived for the past 38 years. She fell in love with the place immediately, but her husband, Jean, deemed it too small for their children and various cats and dogs. "I just sat on the chair and cried," she says, laughing. "I think this is the only time I did this in my life. I'm not a difficult person." De Rohan Chabot recently considered changing the floral fabrics that cover the walls in the rooms on the main floor but was warned not to. "One of my best friends said: 'Don't do this! Everybody loves your house because of this! If you change it, we won't come here anymore.' "
The house used to have a formal dining room, but de Rohan Chabot thought that was "very boring." Most of the time now, meals are casual, unceremonious. "People drop in and we eat spaghetti, or whatever," she says. "Very simple." She does, however, love to set elaborate tables, using her own designs and the pieces that she and her husband collect.
Additional reporting by Julia Felsenthal.
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