In the historic, grandiose trappings of French businessman Thierry Gillier’s new Left Bank home – a late 17th-century two-storey apartment furnished with works by significant 20th-century and contemporary artists – the concept of impermanence feels paradoxical. And yet the aesthetic is innate to Gillier, who craves constant change: be it flipping major artworks throughout his adult life as a collector or moving house for the sake of doing it all over again.
Below it is a fawn-coloured six-seater sofa, which Festen designed to run the length of the piece. Gillier met Warhol in the early ’80s when he was a student studying painting and film at Bard College in New York. He returned home to Paris and segued from art into fashion – not such a stretch given that he hails from a prominent textile family in northern France. His great-uncle, André Gillier, co-founded Lacoste, of the famous piqué cotton polo shirt.