Jean-Louis Deniot devant son banc Astraeos.
Sybille de Margerie et sa table Fusion.
Le guéridon T40G de Michel Jouannet.
Le guéridon Suzanne de Tristan Auer.
Le lustre Firefly de Damien Langlois Meurinne.
L ors du dîner organisé pour célébrer vingt ans de création, Jacques Rayet ne cachait pas sa joie. Autour de lui, une douzaine d’architectes d’intérieur et de designers parmi les plus en vue. Une présence qui témoignait du travail accompli. Car au départ, réunir une aussi belle écurie n’était pas un pari gagné d’avance. Ingénieur de formation, Jacques Rayet ne vient pas de ce sérail. Il est à la tête d’une tôlerie-chaudronnerie industrielle à Moulins, lorsqu’en 1995 il apprend que la maison Pouenat est en liquidation. Fondée en 1880, cette ferronnerie d’art a connu de grandes années avant son déclin. De ses ateliers sortaient des rampes d’escalier, des lustres et des lanternes de style, pour des
in fact the head of an industrial sheet metal manufacture in Moulins when, in 1995, he learned that Pouenat was in liquidation. Founded in 1880, the company had flourished for many years before its eventual decline, creating wrought-iron banisters, chandeliers and light-fittings for chateaux and national monuments in France, or for palaces in Tehran and Jeddah, not forgetting Henri Pouenat’s own personal and classical creations. Jacques Rayet bought and resuscitated the company, supplying the Palace of Versailles with guardrails, the Plaza Athénée with doors and the Crillon with furnishings. “When I was young” he recalls “I wanted to become an architect, unfortunately I did not draw well enough”.
Jacques Rayet In tune with the times
Over two decades, he has made Pouenat a reference in the world of decoration. Founded in 1880, this specialist in craftsman-made wrought iron has become a must for interior designers. By Eric Jansen At the dinner organized to celebrate twenty years of creation, Jacques Rayet’s joy was evident as he mingled with a dozen of the most prominent interior architects and designers. A gathering that bore witness to the work accomplished, for at the beginning, bringing together such a superb team was not on the cards. An engineer by training, Jacques Rayet was not a member of this inner circle. He was
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