Stéphane Parmentier
Stéphane Parmentier started his career in fashion business. After having worked for Lanvin, Hervé Léger and Karl Lagerfeld, he has been director of the women’s ready-to-wear section for Givenchy and artistic director for Montana while launching his own line under his name.
In 2000, he creates his interior decoration agency. He made projects in various regions of the world including Paris, London, Ibiza, the Côte d’Azur, Geneva and Miami as well as the interior design of 1st and business class cabins for Singapore Airlines. In 2005, in Paris, Tools Galerie shows his collection named « Petites architectures ». He is presently preparing for Christofle a collection « Maison » and lightings expected for 2011.
Stéphane Parmentier first met Giorgio Bagnara a few years ago in the aisles of a professional trade show. Enamored of the beauty and the quality of the leathers used, not to mention the meticulous attention to detail evident in each piece, he regularly contacted GIOBAGNARA to realize the custom-made home furnishings in leather or suede that he designed for private clients. Very soon, the two built a rapport based on a shared sense of rigor, a quest for excellence down to the smallest detail and a taste for modern elegance expressed through sleek design, beautiful materials — and a mutual taste for audacity. In 2017, their animated creative dialogue and a shared ambition to bring a new perspective to the market naturally led Giorgio Bagnara to entrust Stéphane Parmentier with the artistic direction of GIOBAGNARA. Since the beginning of this collaboration, Stéphane Parmentier has designed a wide number of new creations for the brand, from boxes, cases, desktop objects, storage units, change trays, trays, candle holders and vases to furniture and leather — or suede — trimmed lamps in a wide array of colours. In blending tradition, aesthetic heritage and modernity, Stéphane Parmentier brings a graphic and sensual sensibility to a typically Italian art of living of which he is particularly fond.