An eclectic background
“What magic ingredients turn a designer like India Mahdavi into a success within three years”, the New York Times asked several years ago and gave the answer immediately: “talent, certainly, but also luck and an eclectic background that marks her work as exotic, global and sophisticated”.
Mrs. Mahdavi’s style is colourful, resolutely modern, with a romantic twist though. But it’s even more than this: it’s playful and joyful. “There’s a sensual quality to the furniture,” Mahdavi says of her work. But joyfulness is what matters most to her. “My pieces,” she adds, “have a happy life.”
A showroom not for showing off
Walk into her showroom on rue las Cases, and you will immediately get this feeling of her global, cosy chic. Mrs. Mahdavi is a Paris-based designer, but she was born in Tehran of an Iranian father and a half-Egyptian, half-Scottish mother, and was brought up in the States, Germany and South of France. After studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where she received an architecture degree, at Parsons School of Design and Cooper Union in New York, she worked with the French interior designer Christian Liaigre, before she created her own studio in 1999, a few years later followed her showroom. Little by little she started to design her own furniture, which you can purchase at her showroom.
Like making a portrait
India Mahdavi is somebody special in her domain, somebody, who has never looked for a recognizable style. She actually doesn’t want people entering a place and immediately identifying her marks. Of course, there is one unmistakable signature piece, the bishop stool. Otherwise, Mrs. Mahdavi likes to change, to move, to adapt. Designing a home for somebody, she once said, is like making a portrait of a person. And she’s obviously very sensitive and very talented in observing people and translating it into colours, forms and simply homes.
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