Robert Couturier
If you could have a second home anywhere, where would you live? I have my house in Connecticut where my heart is and an apartment in NY on the 35th floor... nowhere else except maybe a penthouse on the 91st floor of a new building in Shanghai
What are three words to describe your style? 1. Eclectic 2. Classical 3. Fanciful
Tell us about your childhood bedroom? It had a daybed upholstered in Olive colored suede with a guanaco fur blanket and a pair of checkered leather pillows. Curtains in olive corduroy velvet, Berber rug, all woodwork in blond wood, bookshelves and vitrines, a Louis Philippe game table and a pair of Louis Philippe bergères upholstered in the same corduroy velvet....
What’s the first investment piece you ever bought for your house? I don’t believe in investment pieces I buy what I like and if I make money when I sell them, I am happy otherwise I really don’t care...
In the history of design, if you could hire any designer other than yourself, who would it be? Jean Michel Frank
No room is complete without pets!
People think of me as French, but I am really American
Things you omit from:
A flower arrangement: Gladiolas
An hors d’oeuvre platter: Pigs in a blanket
A bar cabinet: Nothing
A song for:
Dinner at home: Beethoven sonatas
Working at your desk: Mozart
Going for a run: Bach’s cantatas
Biggest Vice? Sugar that is the only one I can publicly admit
If you were on an Ambien high and internet shopping, what would you buy? I never buy anything on the internet and in the last thirty years of Ambien induced slumber I have never had an Ambien high
Do your clothes reflect your design sensibility, if so, how? I have no idea... but probably not because I am excessively classically dressed and that’s not the way I design
Who is your star crush? Ryan Reynolds
What is the thing you would never do on a project, but don’t detest when you see others do it? There is nothing that I would never do
If there were a fire, and you could only keep one design book, what would it be? None, the distilled sum of them is what matters and there is nothing better than memories
For posterity, what would you like your work to be known for? I really don’t want to think about posterity, nor do I care in the least
A Few Favorites:
Movie: The leopard
Book: La recherche du temps perdu
Scent: Frederic Malle Musc Ravageur
The fabric you always come back to: Bargello from Clarence House
Dream project: The next one
Meal: Breakfast, nothing better than bread and butter
Drink: Lemonade
Hotel: The Ritz
Travel Destination: My house in the country
Artist: Rothko
Thing to collect obsessively: Silver
Era in the history of design: French 18th Century
Museum: The Frick Museum
Paint Color that always look great: That changes all the time…
Favorite person to follow on Instagram: Isaac Mizrahi
Dogs, Cats, or No Pets? Dogs dogs dogs I have five of them I love them more than life itself....
