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Pierre Bergian
Dining Room of Howard Slatkin, 1215 Fifth Avenue, New York

2020

About the Item

It took interior designer Howard Slatkin 33 months to recreate an 18th century European palace in an Upper East Side co-op. Set on the 14th floor of the Brisbane House and overlooking Central Park, Slatkin’s masterpiece was endlessly embellished, plaster ceiling to monogrammed seat cushion, its rooms variously Czarist, Orientalist, Italian. The dining room here was inspired by Raphael’s Loggia at the Vatican, with the bookcases encircled by painted panels and Scagliola marble pilasters. In 2015, his work complete and a monograph published, Slatkin put the property on the market. Pierre Bergian (Bruges, Belgium, b. 1965) explores the essence of space, depicting architectural interiors with an expressive line that renders them out of time. Bergian lives and works in Bruges, where he continues to be fascinated by the many historic, abandoned buildings there. The artist studied art history and archaeology at the University of Ghent and has exhibited internationally, including at Purdy Hicks Gallery, London; Galerie Laurent de Puybaudet, Paris; Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam; and Gerald Bland, New York. His work is conserved in the permanent collection of the British Museum.
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