Taste as Legacy – Decorative Caprices by Laurent de Commines

13-02-2026

SEGOURA Fine Art Gallery

Through a selection of recent and previously unseen works, Laurent de Commines explores the decorative caprice as a living memory of European artistic tradition. Blending imaginary architecture, interior theatre and the transmission of taste, his compositions celebrate continuity and dialogue across centuries.

Trained in architecture and the history of the decorative arts, Laurent de Commines has developed for over three decades a distinctive body of work at the crossroads of drawing, scenography and ornament. Inspired by opera stage design, historic interiors and the aesthetics of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he creates richly layered compositions where furniture, architectural fragments and learned references interact. Executed with remarkable precision, his work reinterprets the European decorative tradition through a resolutely contemporary sensibility.