Incollect Magazine - Issue 14

Incollect Magazine 81 galleries and participating in fairs, she says, because working to a deadline pushes her to make decisions. “These exhibitions are very important for me creatively because of the deadline. It is galvanizing, inspiring, and stressful. I am forced to focus on what I am doing. But I also get excited. I like to focus that excitement into the creation and production.” Millot started working with Valerie Goodman Gallery in New York in 2013 and had her first solo show at the gallery in 2014. She has been exhibiting there ever since, and a new show is planned for 2027. “Interior designers love her designs,” Goodman says, rattling off the names of A-List designers. “Victoria Hagan was an important early client,” she says, “and acquired multiple consoles, tables, and benches from me. David Kleinberg included tables and seating in his projects, as have Rees Roberts + Partners, Robert A.M. Stern and Kimille Taylor.” Paris-based interior designer Tristan Auer selected Millot’s tables for the lobby of the Hôtel de Crillon, Paris; Sagrada Studio from Los Angeles commissioned her to create side tables for the contemporary art-filled art’otel in London. New York interior designer Wesley Moon commissioned a pair of consoles for a project in Los Angeles. “Her work has an effortless way of bridging opposites — formal and informal, classic and contemporary — without ever feeling contrived,” Moon says. “We commissioned the consoles for a Laguna Beach villa, and they brought a sense of whimsy and ease, softening the stately architecture while preserving the regal character of the home. Her pieces function as artful punctuation rather than furniture that asks for attention.” Goodman first met Millot in 2013 when she and her husband came to the gallery during a trip to New York in 2013. “I was already working with their foundry in eastern France, which had long been fabricating the bronze works of Jacques Jarrige for my gallery,” Goodman says. “They showed me images of Anasthasia’s furniture and expressed interest in presenting it in New York. I Polished gilt bronze “Stardust” Console Table, 2010