Maison Perrier-Jouët Partners With Garance Vallée For Dazzling ‘Planted Air’ Limited-Edition Bottle And Art Installation

Renowned Champagne house Maison Perrier-Jouët and acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Garance Vallée collaborate to create “Planted Air,” an art installation in celebration of Design Miami 2022.

The installation, on display at Design Miami from November 30 until December 4, aimed to question human’s relationship to the living world, attesting to the continuity of all life forms on earth and symbolizing the interdependent ecosystem that comprises the champagne vineyard.

The Perrier-Jouët Non vintage Blanc de Blancs cuvée bottle is a limited-edition design by Vallée. It boasts earthy tones and swirling lines that bring the bottle to life, accomplishing the artist’s goal of demonstrating the ecosystem of the champagne vineyard and showing how humans and nature are interconnected.

Perrier-Jouët Non vintage Blanc de Blancs cuvée is vivacious, offering crisp citrus and fresh floral notes, and the champagne pays homage to Maison Perrier-Jouët’s Chardonnay grape.

Vallée is an architect, designer and artist who is acclaimed for her installations across fashion, spirits, interior and furniture design and more.

Here, Vallée and Axelle de Buffévent, style director at Maison Perrier-Jouët, share how interdependent all components are that bring champagne to life, how the collaboration came to be and more.

Lisa Kocay: Garance Vallée, what did you wish to achieve with your art installation for Perrier Jouet?

Garance Vallée: “‘Planted Air’ is really the transcription of my discovery of the vineyards in Champagne and the terroir of Perrier Jouët. The Belle Époque house was an inexhaustible source of references. Particularly, the use of wrought iron from the Art Nouveau portal of the house. The stone that forms the basis of the sculptures is chalk, the same stone that forms the basements and cellars of the house. I invite the viewer to come and walk through this field of vines as if in a real immersion, in a world where humans and nature meet without hierarchy.

“This artistic installation also aims to demonstrate the ecosystem of the champagne vineyard and communicate that, above all, humans are in nature and nature is in humans—everything is interconnected. There is an unyielding interdependence of all the components that bring champagne to life. This level of interdependence, down to the roots in the ground, reflects the blurred universal line that divides different life forms. We are all small in relation to the Earth and our environment. Each of us requires variations of the same necessities to survive—at our core life exists interdependently and without hierarchy.”

Kocay: Can you discuss how interdependent all of the components are that bring champagne to life and how interconnected humans and nature are?

Vallée: “Humans rely upon nature to exist, but humans also cultivate nature and fuel the ecosystem that keeps the world turning. Champagne is what can happen when humans and nature are perfectly fused and an example of the interdependent nature of all life forms on earth. We must harmoniously coexist, feeding off one another’s gifts and contributions to life on earth, to achieve discovery and greatness.”

Kocay: Can you share how you specifically focused on depicting how even a component as basic as the chalk in the ground is 100% required in order to eventually produce champagne?

Vallée: “My intention was to illustrate this by way of the iron vine sculptures that appear deeply rooted in the blocks of chalk that are firmly planted on the ground. By infusing the installation with both plays on scale and reflection, I also worked to create a viewing experience that is profoundly immersive and intended to further serve as a nod to the human relationship to the living world.”

Kocay: Axelle de Buffévent, how did this collaboration come to be?

Axelle de Buffévent: “This collaboration came about in a very organic way as I followed [Vallée’s] artwork long before we worked together. Vallée has a very organic approach to art. She merges the domains of architecture and design to explore new relationships between humans, the body, space and objects, as well as their links to domesticity, everyday life and intimacy. From painting to drawing, sculpture to architecture and installations, her organic works evolve naturally, testifying to the importance she attaches to experimentation and the experience of the body in space. Embodying a new wave of creative talents embracing eclecticism, she breaks with the constraints of architectural conception to envision a multi-dimensional, decompartmentalized universe.

“[Vallée] draws her inspiration from all living forms, which animate her holistic approach. This approach leads her constantly to reappraise the place of man in his environment and his connection to nature, a shared quest with Maison Perrier-Jouët, that she transcribed in our commissioned art piece, ‘Planted Air.’”

Kocay: What makes Perrier-Jouët Non-vintage Blanc de Blancs cuvée different from other champagnes?

De Buffévent: “What makes this Cuvee different is its floral notes and vivacity. It is a free spirit, vibrant, dynamic and independent. Perrier-Jouët Blanc de Blancs is dazzling, spontaneous champagne brimming with crisp citrus and fresh floral notes. It is an homage to Maison Perrier-Jouët’s emblematic chardonnay grape, which it interprets in a style unique to the house, combining finesse and elegance with energy and vivacity.”