Pierre Marie Giraud is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by French designer Marie-Anne Derville, on view at the gallery from Thursday, October 9 to Saturday, November 1, 2025. The exhibition will feature a selection of recent furniture pieces that reflect Derville’s distinctive approach, which merges the legacies of European decorative arts with experimental thinking and a refined, contemporary design language.

Based in Paris, Derville is an interior decorator, exhibition designer, and design advisor whose practice is guided by a keen eye for collectible design and the history of the decorative arts. Her work cultivates harmony through contrasts and an instinctive, eclectic curation of references—old and new—aligning her with the scenographic tradition of French decorators. Influences span from Jean-Michel Frank to Donald Judd, the Florentine Renaissance to Swedish Grace and Art Deco, with figures such as Josef Hoffmann, Piero Portaluppi, Jean-Charles Moreux, Josef Beuys, Cy Twombly, Pina Bausch, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Madeleine Castaing, and Martin Szekely shaping her evolving taste.

Derville’s furniture and interior objects are conceived at the intersection of structure, proportion, and surface. Forms are honed to an essential clarity—planes taper, edges soften, and volumes meet in poised junctions—while compositions are calibrated to register light and movement within space. Function remains central, yet each piece asserts a sculptural presence that extends beyond utility, reflecting her scenographic approach to interiors.

Despite the purity of her visual language, Derville remains anchored in the ethos of craft and collaboration. A formative meeting with Pierre Yovanovitch in 2014 led to seven years of close collaboration on ambitious residential projects on both sides of the Atlantic, refining her capacity to devise tailor-made proposals and coordinate execution with discerning architects, craftspeople, and gallerists—a rigor she continues to bring to projects in London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Rome.

We invite you to join us for the opening on Thursday, October 9, from 6 pm to 8 pm.