«The idea was to create physical places, in addition to the boutiques, to experience the brand at 360 degrees and to create art. It’s a way to immerse customers and the media in our universe, bring them closer to beauty and art. Art, as always, is the common thread that guided me in decorating the interiors of the Résidences. In Venice in the Résidence Bonvicini, for example, artworks by around thirty different artists are exhibited, including Silvano Rubino, Sophie Westerlind, Sol Lewitt. There are also my works such as the Ivo Il Gorilla series that I drew on the pages of the New York Times or the cage, the square, translated in the form of glass paste mosaics made by the Venetian laboratory Orsoni, one of the oldest Venetian furnaces in mosaics.
Storie Veneziane and the Scarface perfume
A tribute to the city of Venice, the “Storie Veneziane” collection stands out for its exclusivity in the world of perfumes, with some essences bearing the names of the most famous neighborhoods of the Serenissima. These unique perfumes are available in Italy at luxury department stores and selected perfumeries. Sophie Vann Guillon, creator of all Valmont products, created the universe of “Storie Veneziane” together with Didier in 2018, developing a range of high-quality fragrances. The collection includes seven perfume extracts, each presented in a bottle that is a work of art, adorned with a Murano glass mask, inserted as if it were a precious jewel.
The “Palazzo Nobile” series, with its seven eau de toilette, offers crystalline and fresh fragrances, inspired by the terrazzo floors of Palazzo Bonvicini, combining art and beauty. “Collezione Privata” includes four perfumes that represent olfactory portraits of the different female facets. Guillon’s most recent creation, “Scarface – Parfum d’Artiste”, draws inspiration from the film of the same name, one of her favorite films. This perfume is proposed as a hymn to timeless and gender-neutral elegance. The iconic lei bottle is embellished with two white Murano glass masks, created by the artist Leonardo Cimolin, representing Guillon’s eldest children, Maxence and Capucine.
Another iconic creation is La Quintessence des Glaciers, a precious box with the excellent treatments of the Elixir des Glaciers, designed by Didier Guillon reinterpreting the geometries and lines of the Bauhaus artistic movement, inserting the cubic element as a distinctive signature of the brand. Available in only 500 numbered copies.