Pierre Marie

Singular Ornamentation | Monologue

20 August 2020 Michael Christie Monologue

‘I am an artist-ornamentalist,’ said Pierre Marie when I interviewed him prior to publishing my article on his spectacular tapestry ‘Ras El Hanout.’ Defined by the adroit Pierre Marie as ‘Someone that has the talent and the knowledge to decorate any surface with a story, a pattern, a frieze,’ he further adds that ‘…some media are more hungry for drawing than others; and textile is definitely one of them.’

Tapisserie Ras El Hanout, the Ras el Hanout Tapestry designed by Pierre Marie, made by Manufacture Robert Four in Aubusson, France. | Photograph courtesy of Pierre Marie.

Ras El Hanout | Pierre Marie
Exploring the métier vieux of Aubusson-stitch tapestry made modern by Pierre Marie in collaboration with Manufacture Robert Four.

21 March 2019 Michael Christie Ephemera

Pierre Marie was born in Nogent-Sur-Marne and as the child of ‘slightly hippie parents’ experienced a happy childhood filled with a passion for Disney animated films and ’an early enduring attraction to colour.’ Now as an accomplished designer in his early late thirties, he has prestigious collaborations with French brands such as Hermes and dyptique within his portfolio, or perhaps more accurately, oeuvre. He sees himself as an ‘artist-ornamentalist,’ that is it say, as Pierre Marie does, he is ‘Someone that has the talent and the knowledge to decorate any surface with a story, a pattern, a frieze. I would just say that some media are more hungry for drawing than others. And textile is definitely one of them.’