SUNNY DELIGHT

Gallerist Guillaume Excoffier is one half of Gabriel & Guillaume, which stages chic exhibits of collectible vintage design in Beirut, Paris and New York. Used to globetrotting, Guillaume spent lockdown in Dubai at his colourful Jumeriah apartment.

Giving life and warmth to standardised spaces. I wanted something fresh and fun. I added colour everywhere and I covered all the floors with patterned Madeline Weinrib rugs I had from my former store in Paris.

Sophisticated, eclectic and unexpected. It’s a beach home in a country which is sunny every day of the year. That was a great reason to be more daring than in a home in Paris or London.

is very contemporary) in a more Fifties, Carlo Scarpa style. amazed by a visit to Vizcaya in Miami as a teen. I grew up in Bordeaux too, which is a fabulous 18th century city. What you see as a child grows in you, and you enrich your cultural references as years go by. spaces that were extraordinarily sumptuous, yet inviting.

A biography of Joan Juliet Buck, the Nineties Paris Vogue editor.

FROM TOP: On the terrace, a 1960s Throw-Away sofa by Willie Landels for Zanotta has been dressed in yellow striped cotton and a Hermès blanket. The side table is Fifties French; Ukranian ceramics and a Mexican runner on the dining table; Guillaume Excoffier beside his Fifties Jean Prouve desk. The lamp is a 1970s

OPPOSITE PAGE: The living room floor is layered with vintage Madeline Weinrib rugs; The sofa and coffee table are both vintage Seventies pieces and the giant slingshots are by the British artist Christopher Jarratt.