Laurent de Commines 

Trained in architecture and the history of decorative arts, Laurent de Commines has developed, for over thirty years, a singular body of work at the crossroads of drawing, scenography, and decorative caprice. Nourished by opera set designs, historic interiors, and the aesthetics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, his work explores a world in which architecture becomes theatre and décor becomes narrative.

His ink and watercolor works — often nocturnal — stage richly layered interiors composed of furniture, objects, architectural fragments, and erudite references. Moving between reality and imagination, Laurent de Commines plays with the memory of places, blending historical rigor with poetic freedom. Light, perspective, and detail are rendered with remarkable precision, in service of an atmosphere that is at once intimate and theatrical.

Also a creator of wallpapers, textiles, porcelains, and painted furniture, he works within the tradition of the “decorative caprice,” which he reinterprets with a distinctly contemporary sensibility. His oeuvre thus engages in dialogue with the great decorators and architects of the past, while asserting a personal visual language that is instantly recognizable.