Jong Wook curates a boutique mixing mid-century French, Italian, and German furniture with contemporary art. The collection spans the 1950s-1970s, featuring pieces by Bertolt Müller and Fontana Arte alongside work by ceramicist Valérie Courtet and painter Dan Ho, all chosen to create harmony and beauty in a space.
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'60s and '70s. Um, it's French and Italian design. They have really nice stuff. This is so beautiful. I mean, anything with color attracts me, and you're like lost in this painting. Like your imagination can go wild. So we are in Jong Wook's store at the moment, and I was walking by, and it's a beautiful store. He was telling me the furniture is from the '50s?
Yes. What I present, it's '50s, '60s, '70s French and Italian furniture.
Yes.
And we also present in my shop contemporary artists like, for example, this painting.
Yeah.
Which are from a French painter. Nice. And we have also this kind of of things. This is a contemporary artist. It's Valérie Courtet who does this kind of ceramic. But we also have this kind of table from Bertolt Müller, which are old, old German sculptors from the '70s, '60s, 1960s. Very nice. And it's not ceramic, it's glass. It's the top, it's in glass.
Oh.
And with a very nice design.
Nice.
You can't even tell. Yes, because it's not easy to see that it's not ceramic. It's like pâte de verre. I don't know the name in English, but it's glass work in like maybe in Émile Gallé or these kind of things. We have also, we have many kind of furniture. So we have this sculpture from Lost, which are also from the '60s, very thin here and developing in the air.
Yeah.
Or we have also Italian lamps like this.
Yeah. Very cool.
Yes, it's very light and with opaline and, and, and opaline and Italian from the '70s. So we mixed with this, for example, this This armchair, it's a German designer from the '60s. And it's very sleek. Yes. Yes.
You—
we see the German spirit, a little strict. And we also do this kind of tapestry. We are contemporary work. And in 8 samples.
In 8 samples. Okay. Okay.
And Antonine de Saint-Pierre, it's the artist. It's a woman. It's a contemporary work who do sculpture. She makes panels with iron and metal parts cut, or she do also this kind of small sculpture, stable. This one is called Eva.
Eva.
It's beautiful. Voilà, very nice design of—
Yeah, I love that. I saw that and that's why I wanted to come in.
Ah yes, it's pieces you make you get inside.
Yes, exactly. I was standing right there and I'm like, I need to go and go look at that. It's fabulous.
You give him a big central attention.
Yeah, yeah, it needs it. It deserves it.
Very fun because it's big. It's big. And if we follow, I bought, for example, this lamp this week.
Nice.
It's a French French lamps from the '70s with glass.
Yeah.
And it's a retro lighted glass.
Yeah.
You have two lights, one light is with a shade and another one here.
Nice.
You have this kind of table from, from Janssen Design. And oh, we have the Dan Ho, contemporary artist. Very nice. Chinese-French artist. And this kind of painting, it's a contemporary work.
Yeah.
And we make an exhibition in New York from him with Antonin, the other artist I show you before.
Okay.
We have this table from Angelo Mangiarotti, which is a famous Italian designer from the '70s.
Yes.
This one gets the stamp of the editor Skipper and Oh, we have this kind of also, you see? Yeah. Italian sideboards. Console or sideboard.
Yeah, anything. No, it's really nice.
And for example, this is Italian mirror. So very simple from Fontana Arte and Max Ingranz. It's very simple but very elegant, very, very elegant design.
Yes.
So all these pieces, '50s, '60s, '70s, French, German, Italian. We mixed with contemporary work and we try to make a nice atmosphere. Yeah.
Oh, look at this. It's so nice. I have this in my— But it was really nice meeting you. You're very nice.
Oh, it's— I try, but it's normal.
Yeah. You're the second person that's saying it's normal to be nice because a lot of people forget that. Someone else said that to us. 7 years ago.
Yes.
Ivica, his name is Ivica, in Croatia.
Yeah.
He said the same thing. It's normal because, you know, we were asking him a lot of questions.
Yes, of course.
Yeah.
I'm not going to bite anybody. No, it's not my, it's not my way. We work with nice, with harmony and nice pieces. And yeah. And we are here to just to make the people happy.
Yes. It's important.
It's very important because it feeds a lot of harmony, beauty, feeds a lot, a lot feeds a lot of people.
Yes, it does.
So it's important to—
Yeah, if you're inviting, people will come to you.
Yeah. Oh yes, yes. That's true too.
Yeah, that's true.
So it was a pleasure to—
Yes, it was a pleasure. Yep.
Okay.
Thank you so much.
So, thank you.
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