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Pierre Gonalons, above, designed Pavilion, at left, for Galerie Armel Soyer. GALERIE ARMEL SOYER Designer Pierre Gonalons shares some background on his new work, Pavilions, premiering at Design Miami/Basel. How do you integrate your roles as a creative director, scenographer and interior designer when creating new work? I love furniture; it's been a passion from a very young age. I try to begin with an idea—or even a fantasy—and then from there I design the project with a spatial approach and functional constraints. The pavilion is an architectural structure, but here you're introducing it as an interior space. I was inspired by the pavilions as a model of antique and Renaissance architecture. This kind of micro architecture was considered 'perfect' in classical architecture, because of its autonomy in the environment. From the most symbolic Greco-Roman temple, like the temple of Vesta in Rome, to the most eccentric Neoclassical pavilions, like the Temple de L'Amour at Trianon in Versailles, this kind of construction has passed through history as an ideal of beauty. I wanted to introduce this idea into interiors. CRISTINA GRAJALES PRESENTS STEPHEN BURKS' ROPE STOOLS, PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH DEDAR, USING TRIM FROM THE FABRIC COMPANY'S IMPRESSIVE INVENTORY. CULTURED 43