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PASCAL MORABITO, FRENCH architect and designer, was born in a family of goldsmiths of Italian origin. He celebrated last year, 50 years of creation in the fields of luxury; jewellery, silverware, porcelain, crystal, watchmaking, perfumes, cosmetics, leather goods, writing instruments, fashion, fashion accessories, design, sculpture, packaging, cinema trophies, television, music, home automation, decoration, furnishings, hotels, automobiles, photography, literature, gastronomy, well-being, art of living. Pascal Morabito illustrates by his fantasy and his seriousness, a man's style with a creative sensibility in love with technique, science and beauty. Reconciling trade and creation, science and poetry, a true humanist craftsman, each of his creations is a message, a means of communication, a synthesis. His famous perfume Or Noir was launched in 1980. Or Noir by Pascal Morabito is a Chypre Floral fragrance for women. A year later a men's version called Or Black was released. Both fragrances are still available for sale alongside several others launched in subsequent years, although their availability is very limited. WHAT INSPIRED YOU ABOUT DESIGN AND ARTS? I was very fond of architecture and if you see the world around I could only notice architecture. In fact when you look around you what do you see? Isn’t it architecture all around you? If you go thousands of years in the past, for example into the tombs of the kings and queens of Egypt, you will be surrounded by architecture, jewellery and you will see perfumes. My parents had excellent taste and I was blessed to be surrounded by beautiful things since childhood. YOU WENT BEYOND ARCHITECTURE, EARLY IN YOUR CAREER. TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES. I didn’t want to limit the creativity in my life to just one domain. You could say that the first thing I did outside of architecture was jewellery and I’d like to refer to it as ‘micro-architecture’. I enjoyed working with my friends like Arman, Andy Warhol, César, Dali, Keith Haring, and Vasarely. I designed a jewel called the ‘Diamant captif’, confined in a cube of Plexiglas, set with gold, which went round the world and allowed me a place in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I’ve also created the gold compressions which went on to become the ‘César du cinéma’. P A R F U M P L U S 7