The Danish artist Thomas Poulsen, known as FOS, creates sculptural works that foster interaction and conversation. He’s interested in the way in which people’s surroundings affect what they say and think. Now Céline creative director Phoebe Philo is introducing FOS’s work to Costa Mesa—alongside her own—at the French fashion house’s new South Coast Plaza boutique. The shop, with a façade of grey stone and green onyx includes a space for leather bags, sunglasses, and jewelry and another for shoes and the house’s ready-to-wear collection, all arranged on a rough Vicenza grey stone floor. A lamp, terracotta flowerpot, and vitrine made of Portuguese marble, all designed by FOS, sit inside the new shop beside boiled wool dresses, shirts with animal prints, belted coats lined with fur, and lush oversize leather shopping totes. Here, every piece is a conversation starter.

By Elizabeth Varnell

 

Pictured: The interiors of the new Céline boutique at the South Coast Plaza.
Photo courtesy of Céline

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