Ref: article by Alix Bancarel, L’Oeil – 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: Le Lutetia, Le Dôme, L’Assiette au boeuf, and those emblematic American-style drugstores. A look back at the magic of a style born in the lavish
period of the Trente Glorieuses.
This first monograph devoted to the artist pays tribute to a figure as fascinating and seductive as his works, while sketching the birth of design in France, at first timidly called “industrial aesthetics.” This poetic-commercial designer draws freely on the imaginary worlds of Cocteau, Dalí, De Chirico, and Christian Bérard, as well as on the aesthetic
of Art Nouveau and the Bauhaus.
Artistic ferment reaches its peak in the Parisian drugstores, conceived as veritable theaters where luxury vies with elegant simplicity. More than mere décor, Slavik inaugurates an atmosphere brimming with vitality, a place where life is good. This book will revive nostalgia for that Parisian art of living now perhaps on the verge of extinction…
