Inspiration Then & Now：Cristal Room

After deciding to open a boutique hotel/lounge and dining place for YSL at the late designer's Parisian home; I went on researching a few luxury hotels targeting the similar market. And got quite some inspirations!

I first looked at the Cristal Room Baccarat, the former dining room of Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles in Paris, of which Yves Saint Laurent admired the magical style and called it the 'Eighth Wonder of the World'. The Vicomtesse' home was redecorated by Philippe Starck and today houses the prestigious Musee Baccarat. Philippe Starck chose to preserve its original design while giving it a necessary touch of modernism, revealed its rejuvenated new life.
Once again, the Vicomtesse had set a fine example for the house of Yves Saint Laurent to follow.