Luis Laplace
Argentine architect
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Luis Martorano Laplace (1969-) is an Argentine architect who, with his partner Christophe Comoy, founded and runs the Paris-based Laplace practice, where he is the head designer. He is known for his work for and in collaboration with the art gallery Hauser & Wirth, and has been included in several of Architectural Digest's annual AD100 lists.
Luis Laplace | |
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Luis Laplace in 2019 | |
| Born | 31 December 1969  |
| Education | University of Belgrano |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Partner | Christophe Comoy |
| Website | www |
Early years
Laplace was born on 31 December 1969[1] in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and educated there.[2] He is the son of a lawyer father and airport-manager mother, who divorced while he was still a child.[3] He obtained bachelor and masters degrees in architecture and urbanism at the Universidad de Belgrano in 1995.[2]
Following graduation he worked for Selldorf Architects in Argentina and Mallorca,[3] before being employed at their in New York headquarters between 1999 and 2004.[2]
Career
Laplace founded his eponymous architectural practice in 2004, with his business- and life-partner Christophe Comoy, a former lawyer who serves as CEO.[4][5] Laplace is the head designer.[4][6] The practice is headquartered on the Place Saint-Georges, in the heart of Nouvelle Athènes district of the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France.[2][7][8]
He has a longstanding relationship with the art gallery chain Hauser & Wirth.[6] He has worked on their galleries in Somerset, Gstaad, St Moritz and Paris.[6][9] Their art centre on Illa del Rei, Menorca, opened in July 2021 after a conservation project overseen by Luis Laplace,[10] repurposing existing historic buildings.[11] The gallery was awarded the Best Social Responsibility Initiative by the Government of the Balearic Islands in September 2021,[12] listed as one of the '2022 Works of Wonder' by the international editors of Architectural Digest[13] and named 'Best Art Destination' in the 2022 Wallpaper* Design Awards.[11] His work on the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Paris, a 19th-century hôtel particulier,[14] won the restoration category in the 2024 Wallpaper* Design Awards.[15] He also designed the presentation of a 2024 exhibition of works by the Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida at Hauser & Wirth's Minorca centre.[16]
Laplace's other clients include Adriana Abascal,[3] Nicolas Berggruen,[17]Mick Flick,[2] Emmanuel Perrotin[2] and Cindy Sherman.[2] He has worked on residential projects in France,[2] Hong Kong,[2] Mexico,[2] Peru,[2] South Korea,[2] Spain,[18] Switzerland,[18] the UK[2] and the United States.[18] He has collaborated with artists and designers including Phyllida Barlow, who painted a ceiling mural for his refurbishment of The Audley, a pub in Mayfair, London;[6][19] Martin Creed, who painted the staircase of the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Paris;[15] Rashid Johnson, who designed a mosaic floor for Mount St. Restaurant at The Audley;[19] Piet Oudolf, who landscaped the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Somerset and their centre in Menorca;[6][20] and Anj Smith, who made a painting in a turret at The Audley building.[6] Laplace collaborated with the Guston Foundation on the restoration of Philip Guston's 1934–1935 mural The Struggle Against Terrorism.[21]
Laplace was included in Architectural Digest's annual AD100 list, which recognizes the most influential interior designers and architects around the world,[22] in 2017,[23] 2018,[24] 2019,[25] 2020,[26] 2021,[27] 2023,[28] 2024,[29] and 2025.[30]
In 2024, Laplace took part in the "Tous Mécènes!" fundraising campaign launched by the Louvre to acquire the artwork Le Panier de fraises by Jean Siméon Chardin.[31]