| General info : | | Bianchini-Férier is the business name of a silk manufacturer founded in 1888 in Lyon by a designer, Charles Bianchini, a technician, François Atuyer, and a financier, François Férier.
Thanks to its tradition of quality and creativity, the company, which also established itself on the Avenue de l'Opéra in Paris around 1912, quickly began collaborating with the biggest names in haute couture and then ready-to-wear , including Worth , Poiret , Doucet , Jenny , Vionnet, Lanvin , Patou , Madame Gres, Carven, Paco Rabanne , Nina Ricci , Chanel , Dior , Yves Saint Laurent , Christian Lacroix , Jean Paul Gaultier , Hussein Chalayan , Anastasia , Dries Van Noten …
The rise of the house was based on the creative genius of Charles Bianchini. He cultivated, on the one hand, the search for new technical processes: crepe drap (created in 1910), Madonna muslin (the finest in the world, created in 1904), figured velvets, industrial production of crepe and georgette, at a time when the use of bias binding in sewing was developing… Some innovations were the result of research during his travels, notably to London, Vienna where he forged links with the Wiener Werkstätte, Venice where he became interested in the work of Mariano Fortuny … The names used by Bianchini for the house's fabrics evoke exoticism and faraway places, particularly in the 1920s: crepe Georgette, Romain, Korrigan, Sublime, Mireille; silks Fulgurante, Soiebelle, Flaminga; Odalisque lamé, Scarabée d'Or, Argentine, Silverine, Perles d'Argent; modern quilted fabrics including Montaniador; Frisson and Paradis velvets… At the end of the decade, Bianchini Férier was a group rooted in the Lyon region, integrating all phases of silk production: reeling in Givors, weaving in La Tour-du-Pin, dyeing and printing in Tournon.
On the other hand, Charles Bianchini fostered collaborations with artists. The longest of these collaborations was undoubtedly with Raoul Dufy (formerly with Paul Poiret), who signed an exclusive contract with this Lyon silk house and served as its designer and artistic director from 1912 to 1928. He notably created a logo depicting the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly within the petals of a flower to symbolize the company's connection to silk. "Ornamentation in fabric is something complementary to life; like a light illustration that can discreetly play its role, in keeping with its material fragility." His designs were dedicated to Pegasus, the Procession of Orpheus, Dance, a Tennis Match.
Other artists who collaborated with Bianchini-Férier included: Alfred Latour (who was recommended by Raoul Dufy), George Barbier , Paul Iribe , Yoni Beaugourdon, Sonia Delaunay , Leleu, Robert Bonfils , Paul Charlemagne , Denise Margoni , Henri Gillet, Paul Mansouroff , Jacques Henri Lartigue , Georges Tcherkessof , and later, Victor Vasarely , Kientz, Daniel Buren.
Until 1982, Bianchini-Férier printed and produced its own fabrics. In 1990, the weaver expanded into luxury accessories.
In 1992, Bianchini-Férier partnered with Baumann to create Tissage Baumann (a subsidiary of the Mayor Group), which acquired the Tissage Saint Maurice factory in 1995. Concurrently, in October 1992, the historical and artistic archives of the original Maison Bianchini-Férier SA (founded in 1888) were sold by contract to a private collector from Lyon with a doctorate in Art History. The remaining assets of Baumann Bianchini-Férier were dispersed in 1999. However, the Bianchini-Férier accounting and operational paper archives are now held at the Rhône departmental archives.
In 2002, the name and brand were bought by Cédric Brochier, also CEO of Cédric Brochier Soieries. | |
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| Relations : | | Founded by : François Férier1988 | |
| Relations : | | Brand name used by : Maison Bianchini-Férier SA | |
| Relations : | | Founded by : Charles Bianchini1888 | |
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