Fouquet’s has arrived in New York, marking Hôtel Barrière’s entrance into the US market. The iconic French brand’s eight-story hotel is in the heart of Tribeca and offers guests an intimate atmosphere mixed with Parisian elegance. Fouquet’s lobby and 97 guest rooms exude a family home’s easy charm with a feeling of everyday opulence. In addition to the residential-style rooms, the hotel offers French cuisine options and upscale amenities, including a spa and rooftop terrace.
With an aesthetic masterfully defined by the Martin Brudnizki Design Studio, Fouquet’s New York offered Saatchi Art’s curators an exciting opportunity to curate a strong thematic art collection to complement the luxurious setting. The goal for the project was to provide a series of artworks for the guest rooms that elegantly merged French and American cultures. Decorated with European furniture, Toile de Jouy wallpaper, decadent drapes, and quilted headboards, the Art Deco-inspired guest rooms are characterized by pastel tones and sun-drenched living spaces. To further enhance the distinct style of each guest room, Saatchi’s art advisors selected artworks that exude a combination of Parisian chic and New York cool to adorn the walls.
With spontaneous gestures and graceful charcoal lines, Melissa Herrington’s ephemeral paintings are highly contemplative and Twombly-esque. In contrast, Mandy Racine’s figurative paintings are a lively combination of classical French portraiture and street art that have been reworked with layers of gesso, paint, and pastels.
Print line drawings by Saatchi Art artist David Jones are featured throughout the hotel’s king rooms.
In the public spaces of the hotel, there is a series of photographs by French duo The Heidies, whose works are inspired by fashion and often shot in palatial surroundings such as Versailles. The Marseille-based painter Fanny Nushka was commissioned to make a new series of paintings inspired by the ball scene in Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary. There are also black and white photographs capturing French elegance by Jean-Philippe Lebee, a recent graduate of the Gobelins School of Photography in Paris.
If you are interested in working with our art advisory team, please contact us at at trade@saatchiart.com — we’d love to hear from you! In the meantime, please enjoy exploring this recent collection curated by Saatchi Art Hospitality Art Advisor Connie Kim.