That includes digital business, which has gained considerable ground as people do more from home. “But for me, the great thing about this place was that it was also for a family.“There’s a reassuring side to this - it’s not a completely new world that we have to discover without knowing the rules, but we have just jumped two or three years ahead on certain subjects,” added the executive. “For Thierry, one of the most important aspects of the new apartment was that it should have the right walls in the right places to exhibit the artworks in his collection,” says Bernard Dubois, the young Belgian architect who collaborated with Gillier and Bönström on its design. She and Gillier married in 2016 and have a 7-year-old son, Emil, as well as three kids from their previous relationships: Bönström’s sons, Victor, 18, and Nils, 16, and Gillier’s 19-year-old daughter, Manon. Tall and willowy, with delicate features and feathery blonde hair, Bönström, who is clad in a black mohair sweater and skinny crystal-studded black jeans when we meet, is a perfect ambassador for the brand.
Three years later, she was promoted to artistic director. “I loved the clothes, and the way they were displayed.” Having wrangled a meeting at the company in 2003, she made a mood board of her design ideas and was hired as an assistant. “The first time I went into a Zadig & Voltaire boutique, I loved it,” she says. After working all over the world in her 20s and early 30s, she decided to pursue a new career in fashion design. But Thierry insisted that he’d found somewhere even more special-and, of course, he had.”Īmong Zadig & Voltaire’s early adopters was Bönström, who was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, and moved to Paris to model at the age of 17. “The angels were named Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven. Why would anyone choose to abandon an apartment that was originally designed as a bachelor pad for Baron Haussmann, the redoubtable city planner who transformed Paris in the mid 1800s? “There was a music room with frescoes of angels painted on the ceiling,” Bönström says. It was beautiful, had a wonderful history, and I didn’t want to leave.” And no wonder. “He’s the same with everything he does: always looking for the next thing. “Thierry is always looking for new homes,” Bönström says, throwing a teasingly reproachful glance at him. How would you feel if your partner suddenly announced that he had found a dream home in one of the chicest parts of Paris, with tons of space for the two of you, your four children, and your rapidly expanding art collection, as well as a killer view of the Eiffel Tower? Delighted? Ecstatic? Not Cecilia Bönström-at least, not when her husband, Thierry Gillier, told her two years ago that he was planning to buy just such a place, on rue Galilée, one of the elegant streets running south of Avenue des Champs-Élysées.
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