La Prairie Collaborates with Designer Sabine Marcelis to Celebrate the Remastered Skin Caviar Luxe Cream
This fall La Prairie debuts the remastered Skin Caviar Luxe Cream, a veritable icon first created 25 years ago. This latest formula from the Swiss luxury skincare house boasts unmatched lifting and firming benefits thanks to a caviar science breakthrough in the metabolic power of natural caviar.
The renewed Skin Caviar Luxe Cream and an airy Skin Caviar Luxe Cream Sheer come offered in La Prairie’s signature cobalt blue packaging, an iconic color for the brand inspired by the artwork of another icon, the artist Niki de Saint Phalle.
La Prairie’s Cobalt House.
Sabine Marcelis Interprets La Prairie’s Signature Cobalt Blue
That duality of sleek, bold blue glass and sumptuous, soft cream also served as the starting point for the immersive space The Cobalt House, which Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis created for La Prairie. It debuted at Art Basel last June and is set to travel internationally this year. Marcelis began the project, as is evident in her work, with color. “Color is a really amazing tool to design with, and specifically to create emotion with,” Marcelis said. “What I love about cobalt is it’s always intense and bold and very unapologetically present. You’re drawn to it.”
For Marcelis, the making always begins in materiality. “Light, color, and material are three things I always revert back to with every project,” Marcelis said. The designer was inspired by the duality of La Prairie’s iconic cobalt blue glass packaging, in contrast with the soft, silken cream inside. The designer dreamed up an environment that lures you in with that signature blue hue, winding visitors through a journey into a cream-colored central lounge filled with warm, soft-to-the-touch surfaces and furniture. “The Cobalt House is about creating this duality of spaces and experience,” said Marcelis. “You first experience the outer layer, which is this intense blue color in glass. And then you come into this closed-off room where it’s very much the opposite, with soft shapes and curves. You feel like you’ve suddenly landed in a very different place where you’re taken into the cream itself.”
La Prairie’s Cobalt House.
La Prairie’s Skin Caviar Luxe Cream Elevates the Skincare Ritual
La Prairie continues the partnership with Marcelis by debuting a first for the Swiss luxury skincare house—a design object that complements the all-new Skin Caviar Luxe Cream. Created in collaboration with Marcelis, it is a vanity tray made specifically for and inspired by La Prairie’s Skin Caviar Luxe Cream. The designer set out to enhance the skincare ritual with a vanity tray that’s minimalist while igniting the senses. “Both myself and La Prairie are very much about the essence of things,” said Marcelis. Its polished circular quartzite tray swivels to reveal beneath a cobalt blue resin base containing an elegantly curved matching quartzite spatula for ample application.
The tactile tray reflects the indulgent sensorial experience of the Skin Caviar Luxe Cream, its exacting design paired with rich color and texture as a reflection of La Prairie’s precise yet rich aesthetic. “Merging my design with La Prairie’s expertise was a unique opportunity to bring the product experience to the center of the collaboration. I’ve created for La Prairie an exclusive, limited-edition object of desire inspired by the house’s iconic cobalt blue, and developed to elevate the skincare ritual,” said Marcelis.
Sabine Marcelis, courtesy of La Prairie.
La Prairie’s Skin Caviar Vanity Tray Limited Edition.
