Michèle Lamy on Five of Her Favourite Rick Owens Furniture Pieces

Over the past 20 years, Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy have developed a distinct visual language rooted in the contrast between apocalyptic explorations of decay and stark, architectural monuments to the body. As with the Rick Owens runways – the most recent featuring face-painted models baptised in the waters of the Palais de Tokyo – the couple’s mythos has become a point of cultural marvel. 

Their ventures into the home with Rick Owens Furniture fuse a mausoleum-style austerity with an otherworldly sense of grandeur, setting the stage for a darkly hedonistic celebration of domestic life. Since 2005, the line has become synonymous with massively oversized beds, the tactility of crocodile leather, and stone-forged forms amidst a fever dream of moose antlers. But whatever the material, a sensuality persists – in both its primal materiality and the fact that the beds are designed to house far more than two occupants. After all, Owens once referenced the furniture line as facilitating an “art orgy” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.