Gucci Décor: Let’s Play Dress Up

Intricate motifs, velvet cushions and scented candles... the House of Gucci has brought an eclectic collection of curios and upholstery for your home. Go ahead, create your own doll house.

For those who breathe romanticism, there is some good news. From catwalk to probably your cat, Gucci announced the launch of Gucci Décor, with some…well all of Alessandro Michele’s maximalist designs. Now, your home can dress up like you do. The idea is not to prescribe a particular decorative look, but to provide elements that allow for living spaces to be customised.

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Alessandro Michele has once again shown us how to be unique, bringing one’s style and making it fashionable. The debut range has pieces of text, making occasional appearances with flora blooming abundantly and creatures appearing everywhere, whether on screens, cushions or teapots. Produced by Richard Ginori, a renowned Florentine company founded in 1735, the smaller pieces of the collection are made using the skills of this historic porcelain factory. Michele has designed a range of distinctive, patterned crockery featuring green and white Herbarium decoration. Bringing out the vibe of daytime '70s, the collection has a lot of chevron, solid pink, butterflies, and of course cats.

The House has once again brought together the entire wildlife, and the party doesn’t seem to end. There are dogs, moths, bees, snakes and tigers (hint: cats), be it cutlery or upholstered chair. There are boldly decorative folding screens that have striking patterns on both sides of their panels, some with different designs on front and back. A garden print, a pineapple print, geometrics, and patterns featuring octopuses or leaves all revive designs originally seen in Gucci’s show.

And finally for those who just want their walls to talk, there is a range of unconventional wallpapers in silk, vinyl and paper. A postcard design taken from the pre-fall 2017 collection sits alongside a floral pattern from fall/winter 2015-16. The premium wallpaper is in silk and displays Michele’s take on the famous Gucci Flora design.

Along with the furnishings, four scents —for both candles and incense — have been curated by Michele that include Inventum (a delicate note of ancient damask rose, blended with voluptuous and distinctive taif rose); Fumus (the dark and intense scent of birch, mingled with that of orange leaves and beeswax); Herbosum (the fresh, intense scents of tomato leaves and aromatic plants, mixed with the fragrance of long grass peppered with basil and lemongrass); and Esotericum (the bitter aroma of Seville oranges, intricately intertwined with notes of jasmine, leather and salt).

All we can say right now is, can’t wait for Fall wall.

From the August 2017 issue of L’Officiel India.