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= Luis Laplace = Architect Luis Laplace (born December 31st,1969 in Buenos Aires) is the co-founder of Laplace, a Paris-based architecture and interior design studio which specialises in highly personalised private residences, apartments, art galleries and institutions. Drawing on his professional training and his long-standing passion for contemporary art, Laplace has developed a signature style that combines modern simplicity, timeless elegance and an expert eye for the display of art.

Biography
Luis Laplace was born in Buenos Aires in 1969.

After graduating from the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires with a Bachelor and Master’s in Architecture & Urbanism in 1995, he first worked in Argentina before joining the New York practice of Selldorf Architects, known for its devotion to modern design and art-related projects. He collaborated on numerous projects, ranging from numerous private residences to the Neue Galerie.

In 2000, he left for the Mediterranean island of Mallorca to manage the architecture and interior design projects of Annabelle Selldorf, returning to New York in 2001. In 2005 he relocated to Paris where he founded Laplace Agency with Christophe Comoy in 2006.

In 2007, the agency moved to a magnificent Haussmann building on Place Saint-Georges in the 9th arrondissement.

In 2008, he launched the eponymous furniture range Laplace Bespoke exclusively for his clients.

By 2019, Laplace Agency employs some twenty architects, interior architects, decorators and designers and an atelier new space with a terrace garden giving onto Place Saint-Georges.

Trajectory
In 1996, one of his first works was the restaurant Zulu in the Aeropuerto Laplace of Don Torcuato, Argentina’s first civil airport built by his grandfather in Buenos Aires.

Owing to his passion for contemporary art, ceramics and 20th Century vintage, all of which he has been collecting for many years, Luis Laplace has specialised in the installation of artworks as an integral part of his practice.

In 2000, he realises the private residence of Ursula Hauser, co-founder of Hauser & Wirth, and which houses one of Europe’s most important collections of contemporary art. In 2006, he is commissioned by Mick Flick, another great collector of Contemporary Art, to design his house on the island of Ibiza. The Paris apartment of gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin, the artist Cindy Sherman, as well as the layout of the Danish gallery Dansk Mobelkunst and Hauser & Wirth Somerset, including a gallery space, restaurant and the Durslade Farmhouse premises of, all follow in 2007.

Over the next decade, he undertakes numerous private projects for prestigious international clients.

In December 2018, he completes new gallery premises for Hauser & Wirth in St. Moritz and conceives a farm shop extension for their Somerset site. 2019 marks the extensive renovations of the Museo Chillida-Leku in Spain’s San Sebastian which houses the estate of the famous Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida-Leku.

Inspiration
His grandmother Ana Laplace, an artist and embroiderer who initiated him to the beauty and rigor of craftsmanship, was doubtlessly his first muse. Among his other sources of inspiration are the architect Adolf Loos, American modernism, the brutalist movement and Viennese secession, the paintings of Sonia Delaunay, the textile of American designer Sheila Hicks, landscape architect Piet Oudolf, the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe and the works of Louise Bourgeois.

Scenography
In 2014 and 2015, he engages in the scenography of works by Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé for the specialist Parisian auction house Piasa, the staging of Vauclair Gallery at the Paris Biennale des Antiquaires at the Grand Palais, as well as participating in two AD Interiors sessions.

Philosophy
The philosophy of Luis Laplace is apparent in the simplicity and harmony of his site-specific projects. Each tells an individual story, in the consistent language that is his intuitive understanding of volumes, materials, light and perspectives. Allowing the spaces to make their own demands, he revives the history of the space by collaborating with craftsmen specialised in carpentry, frescoes, ceramics, stonemasonry and fabrics. This passion for fine handicraft and time-worn materials finds expression in such projects as the restoration undertaken with Aubusson tapestries on an armchair refurbished with Phelippeau Tapissier.

Furniture
Laplace Bespoke, launched in 2008, is an exclusive furniture line which features materials such as marble, terrazzo, glass, leather, copper, brass, velvet and horsehair. The elegance of line is expressed across a timeless range of more than three hundred pieces, in pastel hues and warm textures, showcased in his Parisian showroom on Place Saint-Georges, alongside the 20th Century vintage furniture and antiques under the name of Laplace Antiques.