Guillaume Feau of Feau Boisseries will present his family firm’s architectural interiors in wood, plaster and stone in the context of the great history of collaboration among American designers and architects and French master artisans. Peter Pennoyer will show examples of great French rooms in New York buildings to introduce Feau’s remarkable projects.
Guillaume Féau is the third-generation owner of Feau & Cie. Based in the center of Paris for more than a hundred years, Feau & Cie specializes in antique wood paneling and fireplaces, parquet flooring as well as the reproduction of paneling. In addition to selling million-dollar antique boiseries, Guillaume has a thriving secondary business re-creating period rooms, which he supplies to designers around the world.
Peter Pennoyer is the founding partner of Peter Pennoyer Architects, a New York–based architecture and design firm with an office in Miami. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he is the co-author, with Anne Walker, of five books on early twentieth-century American architects and the author of A House in the Country, written with his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder. Recent projects include a house for the Jeff Koons family, an Art Deco–style apartment building on Madison Avenue, and Rowdy Meadow, an award-winning Czech Cubism–style house in Ohio, the subject of a book published by Vendome Press in 2021. The firm's newest book, Peter Pennoyer Architects: City | Country, was published by Vendome Press in Fall 2023. Follow Peterand the firm on Instagram @peterpennoyerarchitects
This lecture is presented as part of The Françoise and Andrew Skurman Lecture Series on Classical French Architecture.
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