Inspiration comes in all shapes, sizes and price tags – some accessible, some just dreamy-worthy. Today’s inspiration is certainly the latter variety for me as the über-luxe sticker attached certainly puts it well out of my reach. But no price tag can prevent me from taking great pleasure in admiring it from afar and drooling over it with you, my friends.

Feast your eyes, if you will, on Taylor Llorente’s Cane Chair Design 5610.

This extremely sculptural and modern reinvention of a traditional wingback chair first captured my attention as I was perusing images I had stumbled upon of a stunning hotel in Paris, La Hotel Maison Champs Élysées. I am in love with so many details of this chair: the large scale honeycomb, faceted panel construction; the strong nod to the traditional wingback in a fiercely modern silhouette; the use of traditional caning {in use since the 1600’s in traditional European furnishings} made utterly fashion-forward, edgy and anything but commonplace. This chair gets it so right in so many ways and is the ultimate statement piece to punctuate a space with soaring ceilings and abundant natural light. Just look at how it shines like a diva on stage in these images of it in situ at La Maison Champs Élysées.

It must be said that the architecture and finish selections in this hotel are unspeakably fabulous, and yet this singular chair still managed to leap out and grab me by the lapels and say “Look at me! Look only at me. Love me.”

Of course, I couldn’t help but take some time to admire the other spectacular design details in the space. Sophistication and humour seem equally honoured with the impeccable juxtaposition of modern and traditional at La Maison Champs Élysées.

And all of this, of course, serves as the perfect stage to spotlight today’s design inspiration and Chair Worth A Stare, Tayler Llorente‘s brilliant Cane Chair Design 5610.

Standing O, Tayler Llorente. Standing O.

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