maker study — liaigre
liaigre is the quietest luxury in the de sousa hughes showroom — and perhaps the most influential. the french design house, founded by christian liaigre and now under new creative direction, produces furniture and interiors of almost monastic restraint. every piece is essential. nothing is decorative. the luxury is in the material, the proportion, the silence between objects.
this monograph covers: the liaigre philosophy and the french modernist tradition it extends, the material language — dark woods, pale linens, bronze, ceramic, leather, a curated selection of 10 pieces available through the showroom, and an essay on restraint — why the most powerful rooms are often the quietest.
the fifth in the maker study series. for anyone who wants to understand why less, in the right hands, is everything.