Bonsoirs, the high-end household linen specialist, and designer Sophie Mechaly of Paul & Joe have debuted a classy new collection for the home.

 
Like her designs for fashion, the collab’ – entitled Paul & Joe pour Bonsoirs – blends French style and panache with a soupcon of Anglo attitude.
 
On Tuesday, Mechaly enthusiastically presented the first looks from the partnership inside Bonsoirs’ graceful store on rue Etienne Marcel in central Paris.

“This is timed for the festive season, bien sur, but we didn’t want anything obvious like red and green plaid or Christmas scenes,” insisted the blonde, always elegant designer.  
 
Instead, the collection is inspired by Paul & Joe’s iconic patterns, as it revisits the brand’s heritage with a unique, decorative lens. Think precisely drawn autumnal forests featured on fitted sheets and pillowcases, delicately embroidered cushions with naive Noah’s Ark animal patterns, and solid colour versions finished with fabric buttons, featuring puckered roses. Everything is done in exclusive patterns, like bedspread covers in long fibre striped satin cotton, with couture piping finishes, all the way to curtains in a subtle menagerie pattern.
 
“I wanted a combination of poetry and comfort that makes for a precious gift,” said Mechaly, lounging on double bed with her designs. “Anyway, what’s the best time of most weeks? Lying in beautiful bed on a weekend morning with your young kids around you!”
 
A graduate of Paris fashion college IFM, who studied at the Sorbonne and made her first career steps in Azzedine Alaia’s atelier, Mechaly founded Paul & Joe in 1995, rapidly winning fans for her sense of playfully understated French panache.
 
Priced competitively, Paul & Joe pour Bonsoirs includes large sized bedspread covers costing €135; two-meter fitted sheets at €70 and pillowcases for €50. 
 
And when dad exits the shower, there is even the perfect white towelling robe. Bonsoirs offers its own versions in bold stripes, but the collab’ features an all-white Tuileres bathrobe with billiard green lapels finished with a hunting scene breast pocket and a beautifully embroidered hot air balloon on the back. Priced at €149 and referencing France’s happiest moment these past years: the Montgolfier that rose each sunset inside the garden during the Paris Olympic Games.
 
The collection is now available online and in Bonsoirs’ French stores in Paris and Lille.