Nomad Cabinet : Jean Boggio create a unique piece of exception

Maison Fontaine, a locksmith of decorative art, and Astello by Thierry Massant, cabinetmaker, gave carte blanche to Jean Boggio, storyteller and artisan jeweler, to create a unique piece of exception: a nomad cabinet combining their three know-how .

The result is a true ode to the traditional codes of French savoir-faire, tinged with a timeless modernity.

French savoir-faire

This close collaboration between the Maison Fontaine and Astello by Thierry Massant who, under the artistic direction of Jean Boggio, gave birth to a sumptuous travel cabinet, a link between the 17^th and 18^th century cabinets and the Art Deco style.

Cabinet in Ebony of Macassar

Astello by Thierry Massant took care of the manufacture of the cabinet in Ebony of Macassar, sublimated by a varnish. The whole thing offers an incredible decor with a large chrome handle from Fontaine collections, which used to be used in transatlantic fittings.

Secret drawer

To also give a mysterious side to this furniture between the travel cabinet and cabin trunk, Jean Boggio has added a secret drawer in which are encrusted 12 gilded bronze rosettes of the Maison Fontaine.

Jungle Motif

Resting on 6 feet in nickel-plated bronze inspired by the ball buttons designed by Ruhlmann for the Maison Fontaine, this precious cabinet proudly displays the jungle motif, a true trademark of Jean Boggio whose "graphic DNA is the palm tree, a true madeleine of Proust of my childhood.

Until the end of March 2018

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These unique pieces are to be discovered until the end of March, by appointment, in the Fontaine Paris showroom, at 190 rue de Rivoli.

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The idea in the creation of this piece of furniture was to create a jewel of a house where not only Astello's savoir-faire and the Maison Fontaine's DNA were mixed together but also the times and materials to make a resolutely contemporary and timeless piece.

— Jean BOGGIO

jeweler-goldsmith Boggio

I would like to reconnect with what has made the wealth and international renown of this oldest art locksmith: the collaboration with a designer to draw a complete series of handles, buttons and other exclusive items.

— Christine SOULIER

In charge of the Parisian showroom Maison Fontaine

There was really an artistic collaboration, aesthetic, technical and human.

— Thierry Massant

cabinetmaker Astello

Console in the spirit of Napoleonic

For Jean Boggio, this artistic osmosis was expressed beyond the nomad cabinet with the creation of a console in the spirit of Napoleonic campaign furniture, and for which he deliberately diverted the inevitable steel cremones of the Maison Fontaine .

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Photo credit of floral texture: Tassinari et Chatel - Collection Jean Boggio