As a finishing touch to enhance the tranquil ambience of your bedroom, most art curators advise hanging an artwork as the singular focus above your bedpost. Dynamic lines—think Edvard Munch—are evocative. With subject matter, landscapes by Sabavala or Matisse, and subtle-toned abstracts in the style of Rothko are both transportive and calming. Minimal canvasses and muted brush strokes quite literally breathe; inspiring stillness.
But if you are still muddled on how to curate the art in your bedroom, turn to Yves Delorme Couture. Each season, the French home linen label reimagines bedding as a blank canvas to reinterpret hand-painted artworks by celebrated artists. Helming the maison's couture line, is design duo Jérôme Delmas and Isabelle Chazé, also known as the atelier's “eye and hand”, respectively. Delmas, the artistic director and designer of the brand, was trained in interior architecture and design at ESAG Penninghen. Chazé, the ‘première d'atelier', or lead tailor, was born with a needle in her hand, hailing from several generations of seamstresses which led her to take part in some of the most prestigious embroidery competitions in France.
Hokusai's ‘Great Wave off Kanagwa' (1830-33)
This summer, Yves Delorme Couture pays tribute to two exceptional Impressionists. Debatably the most iconic work in Japanese art, Katsushika Hokusai's ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa' (1830-33) inspires the design of Poseidon. “I also found inspiration in this coat created by John Galliano for the House of Christian Dior (PE 2007 collection). Since I first saw the Dior coat, its haute couture quality and style was forever engraved in my memory,” Delmas says. All in all, the duvet cover which impeccably captures the Prussian blue ink in Hokusai's famed woodblock print, took 350 hours of hand embroidery, to come to life.
Monet's 'Water Lilly Pond' (1899)
Claude Monet lived for forty three years, from 1883 to 1926, in a house in Giverny. It is impossible to tell whether he was a better gardener or painter, because the Impressionist always claimed that his greatest masterpiece was his garden, that he personally tended to. Tourists can still stroll through his home and gardens—maintained today as it was in Monet's day—lush with tulips, daffodils, poppies, sunflowers and emblematic water lilies. Inspired by ‘Water Lily Pond' (1899), the Giverny design pays tribute to the infamous Impressionist's most famous series of paintings, with a 100% cotton sateen set with a 200/cm² thread count. “The style of Yves Delorme Couture's prints have always been very pictorial, almost abstract. So, the expressive brushstrokes, splashes of intense colour and lots of movement, in the reflections on the water of Claude Monet's garden, is in line with our sensibilities,” Delmas says.
Delmas prioritises the importance of restful sleep given the current world scenario: “This pandemic caught us all by surprise, we could not have imagined that a virus would shake up the planet in this way! Countries which are opening up again are gradually returning to sleeping well. Treat yourself to beautiful bed linen, where we spend one third of our lives!” he says.
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