Fragonard x Jacques Merle x La villa Noailles

Mythical Couple
This season, Fragonard’s iconic pillowcases are adorned with a new design by artist Jacques Merle, created exclusively for Villa Noailles. It pays tribute to the legendary couple Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, with the poetry that characterises his work: the lines are soft, the faces almost dreamlike.
Collaborating with Fragonard for the first time, Jacques Merle brings a poetic and contemporary touch to this edition, imbued with great sensitivity.
A delicate creation that transforms your nights into an imaginary journey.

Jacques Merle
Trained in spatial design at ESAA Duperré and contemporary drawing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Jacques Merle is as influenced by classical masters such as Botticelli as he is by modern figures such as Jean Cocteau and Alekos Fassianos.
Flowers, stars, suns, waves… Ornamentation is not just embellishment, it is omnipresent in his paintings and forms an emotional map. A fantastical world
is created around the characters. Central to the work, they often resemble boys in the prime of adolescence, with all its vulnerability. Dressed in scarves tied around their necks, their fragility is evident in their bare skin, which blurs
the lines and leaves room for questions.
Jacques Merle has developed a unique artistic practice in which the figure, often reduced to the essentials of the face, dissolves into mental landscapes with dreamlike resonances.
His work questions identity where contours are fragile and emotion takes over. The face becomes the anchor point of a floating, poetic universe.

About Fragonard Parfumeur
Founded in 1926, Fragonard is one of the oldest perfumeries in Grasse. Today, the founder’s great-granddaughters, Anne, Agnès and Françoise Costa, continue this beautiful family story.
A renowned perfumer, Fragonard created a lifestyle line for the home 20 years ago. Provençal at heart, Fragonard shares its joie de vivre in all its home, fashion, decoration and perfume collections. An identity that it embellishes with motifs and craft techniques inspired by distant travels.
Today, Fragonard has twenty boutiques in France, three perfume museums in Paris and three museums in Grasse (the Provençal Museum of Costume and Jewellery, the Jean-Honoré Fragonard Museum and the Perfume Museum).