Opened in 1880, Parisian restaurant Drouant was in serious need of a facelift.
LITERARY HOT SPOT: Opened in 1880, Parisian restaurant Drouant was in serious need of a facelift — but it had to be a quick one.
“We had a very clear deadline,” said Fabrizio Casiraghi, the 33-year-old Italian architect who was tasked with zhuzhing up the Art Deco gem, bought in 2018 by brothers Stéphane, Thierry and Laurent Gardinier, who also own French gastronomy restaurant Taillevent. “The renovations absolutely had to be finished in a year, in time for the 2019 Goncourt Prize.”
In honor of Proust’s Goncourt prize, which he received in 1919 for “Within a Budding Grove,” artist Roberto Ruspoli decorated the walls of the Proust private dining salon with drawings of delicate nymphs partially covered with blue flowers. “When we ripped out the parquet on the ground level, we discovered Ruhlmann’s original floor design: a colored mosaic created by the architect himself,” Casiraghi said. The ceramic tiles were too heavily damaged to be kept, but Casiraghi paid homage to Ruhlmann’s original idea by creating a stone mosaic, which is more resistant than ceramic. The architect added travertine into the mix, a stone that was mostly used to build Brutalist buildings in Thirties Milan, a nod to his own origins.
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