My Journey
A Lebanese-born architect by training, Aline Hazarian worked for fifteen years in the family business before devoting herself to what she loves: decorating. Her first collection of furniture and objects was presented in New York in 2017, where it was enthusiastically received. Aline Hazarian reveals pieces that are very much like her. Whether it's a console, a lamp, a wall lamp or a coffee table, each creation is necessary and strong, always linking functional needs with aesthetic demands.
Wherever she lives, from Paris to Jeddah, from New York to Beirut where she has established her workshop, Aline Hazarian creates furniture and objects that are like reassuring presences, accomplices and companions in life.
Home as a refuge beyond borders
Aline's passion for decoration stems from her childhood, during the war in Lebanon, which forced her family to move from place to place, country to country, culture to culture. A forced nomadism that forged the future designer's taste and outlook. In fact, each new installation must be a joyful moment, a place to create together, to make one's own.
It's all about feeling at home everywhere: no matter where, it's the interior that counts.
Even today, the furniture designed by Aline Hazarian structures a family living space. They bear the names of her children or Armenian heroes: Ara, Anahit, Aramaz, Barsamin. On the top of the corner table nicknamed Zat, she goes so far as to print her son's fingerprint in bronze.
A formal and functional requirement
Each of Aline Hazarian's creations is born of necessity. Need a coffee table? Barsamin, her iconic black-and-gold piece of furniture in polished and patinated bronze, was born. Need to create a theatrical atmosphere for a hallway? And the Ara wall light takes shape. Every piece of furniture or object seeks to combine functional necessity with perfect form. And every time, the place and the need inspire the piece that will emerge.
Perfection: a certain way of occupying space
For Aline Hazarian, perfection is an ideal, a constant aspiration. Each creation must become a sculpture in its own right, an objet d'art that blends harmoniously into a space to create a lasting, true sense of well-being. In this way, his furniture creates a dialogue between the part and the whole, reconciling the pleasures of the eye and the art of living. Sober colors, pure lines, silhouettes that are sometimes massive, sometimes fragile, curves and paces adjust to serve the harmony of the whole.
Chasing monotony
Although Aline Hazarian favors sobriety - her palette favors the natural: wood, black, gray - she also places great emphasis on the magic of detail. This magic is gold, which, combined with grey, gives the Aramaz console its glamour. Two seahorses stand guard on either side of a desk basket that can also be used as a vase for a dinner party. It's a dragon's head hidden under a side table. Beauty doesn't have to give way to boredom. By combining elegance and the unexpected, sobriety and singular detail, Aline Hazarian brings her creations and interiors to life.
Bronze as the material of choice
Sometimes combined with pieces of cedar or ebony for their rich contrasts, Aline Hazarian's preferred material is bronze. She works with it in unprecedented ways, highlighting the infinite complexity of this noble material. Bronze is sometimes powerful as a console table, sometimes graceful as a lamp base, sometimes discreet as a sofa pedestal, sometimes even coquettish in the form of a lucky pig.
Cast in any number of ways, this material lends itself to all shapes and fantasies to create unique, intimate pieces of furniture.