October 2021
A decorator of flagship venues in the 1960s and 70s, notably the famous drugstore on the Champs-Élysées, Slavik established himself as a pioneer in the design of restaurants with strong personalities.
February 2022
This book, which one reads with gourmandise like a thick illustrated novel where every image is pored over, is more than a biography of Slavik.
April 2022
Few people know the name Slavik these days. Yet this surveyor and lover of Paris is responsible for the décor of the capital’s legendary venues:
May-June 2022
We owe him the success of the trendy restaurants and pubs of the 60s and 70s..
June 2022
Éditions Norma has devoted a beautiful volume to Slavik, the leading designer notably known for having conceived the Publicis drugstores.
May 2023
There are places one goes to be seen, and others where one goes to hide. One pays (sometimes dearly!) to hide; but it is self-evident that the most luxurious places are those made to put us on display.
February 2023
From the late 1950s onward, US-inspired drugstores opened in Paris. It was a Russian-born artist, Slavik, who decorated them.
October 1966
In America, they would call it “The Shop”. To make it American, we named it “Drugstore”.
November 2022
Russian by birth, Parisian by heart and adoption, Wiatscheslav Vassiliev, known as Slavik, was one of the most important restaurant decorators of the 20th century.
