The iconic creation of architect and designer India Mahdavi, the bishop is 25 years old. After high, then low, serving as a stool, pedestal table, table. after being available in ceramics, wood, salt, marble, it returns to chocolate.
It’s 25 years old, has grown and shrunk over the years, is multi-functional, comes in nearly twenty colors and materials, including recently chocolate, and has traveled the world… Design lovers will instantly recognize Bishop in this brief portrait. Mahdavi of India. This design icon, with an instantly recognizable form inspired by the chess nerd, was born one night in New York in 1999 when the designer and architect were working on a bar stool at APT, a very private club in the city that never sleeps its lineage originated across the Atlantic, yet it has always been produced in France.
Up and then down
India’s Mahdavi revisits its function three years later in 2022, reducing its height and turning it into a pedestal table made of wood. But in 2004 it found its iconic form in a ceramic version, Mahdavi’s first ceramic piece for the Hotel Condesa in Mexico City.Here she is, a star, on display in galleries and museums. In 2009, the Pierre Bergé & Associés gallery in Brussels paid tribute to him with the event “My Name is Bishop”, a collection of bishops in salt, marquetry, marble, plaster, wax… In 2017, Bishop Or. is admitted to the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. And in 2022, Bishop Primadonna will join the permanent collections of the Center Georges Pompidou after appearing on the cover of the magazine in 2021. M world. Over the years, India’s Mahdavi reinterprets it, dressing it in precious Longwy enamels, turning it into a table and side table thanks to the trays called cocktail, peanuts or even simply complementing the object…
Courage and good taste
Palomas x India Mahdavi
The charm of the bishop is undoubtedly his character; Yes, objects also have a personality: he is a face, a protein. And as it celebrates its quarter century, the Bishop still surprises us. Here’s a chocolate candy.It’s enough that the House of Palomas offered Mahdavi a new holiday package for him to jump at the chance to turn his chair into a bite to eat. He dreamed of it for a long time, passionate about changes in scale, and was first attracted to the idea of turning an everyday object into an edible piece. Dark chocolate from Peru, pistachio paste and six whole roasted Iranian pistachios with a hint of fleur de sel make up this delicious mini bishop. , which further confirms its reputation.
From €38 for 6 Bishops Paloma x India Mahdavi box at palomas1917.com
Source: Le Figaro
