Outdoor furniture confirms its strong comeback. Technical research, designer creations or artisanal alternatives, the living room extends onto the terrace, the kitchen moves into the garden… A strong trend: bringing people together.
What do we have in common? The swimming pool (1969), Vincent, François, Paul and the others… (1974), My mother’s castle (1990), They married and had many children (2004) or even The Little Handkerchiefs (2010)? In each of these French films, a few idealized scenes left their mark on us, Proust’s madeleine of meals in the garden, with family and friends. Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin at breakfast, (turning) around yellow furniture signed Gae Aulenti and which has become iconic; while Claude Sautet’s group of friends meets every Sunday for a picnic in the park of a small country house, cigarettes in their mouths, engines roaring and moods to spare.
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In the adaptation of the autobiography of a Pagnol idealizing his childhood, we see again the large summer tables, the loupiotes in the soft light and the rabbit stew passed from hand to hand. Later, on the deck of a wooden house designed by Philippe Starck for the 3 Suisses, Charlotte Gainsbourg
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