ive years in the making, the National Gallery of has come to vivid life. The Iranian-French architect and designer is a perfect and formidable match for 20th-century master painter Pierre Bonnard. “It’s like an abstraction of a home,” says Mahdavi of her scenographic vision for the exhibition. “I responded to Bonnard’s colourful world with an even more colourful one — the whole exhibition is a conversation about colour.”
