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In Milan, during Salone del Mobile, an apartment is temporarily reconfigured into a living environment where furniture design, heritage and fragrance intersect. Antoine Billore moves in with his first collection of hybrid furniture, while L’Artisan Parfumeur celebrates its fiftieth anniversary there. The apartment feels as though it is inhabited, yet at the same time it reveals the contours of a new design vision. Objects, materials and scents are layered throughout, so that the whole is read more as a composed world than as a conventional presentation.
Over recent years, Antoine Billore has developed a recognisable visual language through his Instagram practice, where he brings together anonymous, often craft-based objects in unexpected combinations. His fascination does not lie in the signature of a design, but in the presence of the object itself and the way it relates to others. This approach previously informed his work as a set designer in the fashion world and now evolves into a more material practice in which he assembles furniture from reused elements. His work balances between collection and construction, where existing fragments are given a new function without losing their original character. 
In the Milan apartment, this approach comes together in a series of pieces made from wood, marquetry and decorative fragments. Chairs become carriers of inlaid panels or small sculptural additions, whereas screens and objects function as composite structures in which image and function overlap. The idea of reuse becomes a way of repositioning existing objects within a contemporary context. Within the interior itself, these pieces are combined with wall installations, textile layers and graphic interventions that reinforce the sense that each room is read as a separate chapter.
The collaboration between Billore and L’Artisan Parfumeur finds common ground in a shared focus on free, non-linear creation
The scenography of the apartment deliberately plays with familiarity and estrangement. A kitchen wall is built from decorative wooden panels, while in the bathroom tightly arranged works create an almost collecting rhythm. On the floor of the living area, a rug appears that visually responds to the placement of the furniture. In this setting, the scents of L’Artisan Parfumeur are also integrated, including the iconic fragrance objects and care products that are subtly diffused throughout the spaces. The perfume thus becomes part of the spatial composition rather than a mere addition. 
The collaboration between Billore and L’Artisan Parfumeur finds common ground in a shared focus on free, non-linear creation. The Milan apartment thus becomes a temporary landscape in which furniture, objects and scent influence one another. Within the context of the perfume house’s anniversary year, the project also takes on a broader significance, with initiatives that reinterpret the brand’s archive and history in new forms.
Photography by Theo Bobin
Text by Carolien Depamelaere