Yves Gastou: Mix Master
French antiques dealer Yves Gastou has decorated his Paris apartment and Biarritz home with no heed for the rules of interior design. Expect the unexpected.
The living room of Gastou’s house in Biarritz, filled with a neoclassical commode by Gio Ponti, a coffee table by Jansen, armchairs by Jean-Charles Moreux, and a carpet by André Arbus.
An Adnet cabinet in the Biarritz dining room.
A stairway in the Paris apartment.
A Christian Liagre couch and an Arbus coffee table in Paris.
A bedroom in the Biarritz house with a chair by Newson and a statue by Louis Lejeune.
Gastou’s Paris boutique features a chair and lamp by Philippe Hiquily.
Gastou’s son’s room in Paris, with a chair by Newson and a cabinet by Ettore Sottsass.
Gastou’s Biarritz bedroom.
A room in Paris with pieces by Arbus, Newson and Lucio Fontana.
Gastou’s Paris apartment with a chair and side table by Arbus and a skull, above right hanging on wall, by Maria Pergay.
Gastou finds a rock on the Biarritz beach.