Monastic Frivolity at Casey Casey’s Showroom and Atelier in Paris
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Many of us at Remodelista have long admired Casey Casey, a Paris-based under-the-radar clothing brand found in the likes of Dover Street Market. To love Casey Casey, you must have a love of materiality, and particularly of extremely crispy cottons and deliberate wrinkled fabrics. Seeing clothing as “veils and canvases to express oneself in,” self-taught designer Gareth Casey is a trained ceramicist, painter, and sculptor. It’s no wonder that Gareth was so intricately involved in the creation of the first Casey Casey atelier and showroom, now located at 6 Rue de Solférino in Paris.
Working with architecture and urban strategy firm Atelier NEA, Gareth sought “light, simplicity, rhythm, and quality with subtle and constrained materiality and texture” for the space. In fact, the more Gareth and Atelier NEA collaborated, the more restrained the resulting design: “During the process, the different design elements became more and more simplified and understated,” he describes. Join us for a tour through the warm yet distinctly monastic interiors.
Above: Housed in a historic Parisian building, the space is marked by tall ceilings and equally tall windows.Above: Led by founding architect Nathalie Eldan, Atelier NEA integrated layers of oak into the otherwise white space. The floorboards are solid oak that were steel-brushed to bring the veins of the wood to the surface, giving them a worn, textured feel.Above: “The guiding principle of the design of the space was that it needed to be adaptable: to be a showroom, a creative design studio, a photo studio, a space to meet and greet!” Gareth explains. Integrated into the space are a series of meeting tables with oak bentwood armchairs.Above: Casey Casey worked with architectural practice Ciguë to bring the space to live with a series of furniture. Gareth worked directly with the Ciguë team in their Montreuil workshop, selecting materials and building the pieces that are now in the space.Above: A creative interpretation of a table designed and built with Ciguë in front of the custom oak stair leading to the balcony.Above: “We tried to make the space as much of a blank canvas as possible to allow us to play around with installations and changing the decoration,” says Casey Casey of the main atelier floor. Here, a pair of pants is displayed on the round table and a small selection of clothing, on rotation, hangs on custom racks.
