Slavik : Les Années Drugstore

Wiatscheslav Vassilieff, known as Slavik (1920-2014), a Russian émigré, ruled Paris for almost half a century until the turn of the century. Noted for his work as a painter with surrealist overtones, he became a decorator at Galeries Lafayette from 1943 and in 1954 was put in charge of the new industrial aesthetics department at Publicis. He designed the spaces and decoration of the Drugstore on the Champs-Élysées (1958), Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1965) and the Pub Renault (1963). From 1968 onwards, he devoted himself to the design of restaurants, bistros, brasseries, pubs, bars, nightclubs, shops and boutiques.

This monograph is dedicated to this poetic-commercial designer, who invented more than three hundred decors, in France and abroad, in which he mixed Art Nouveau inspiration, Slavic spirit, Anglo-Saxon influences and modernity.