For many years he shared a studio with his colleague Mark Gage until the two went their separate ways last year. Since then Marc Clemenceau Bailly has teamed up with his wife Nicolette to form the Bailly & Bailly studio, headquartered in New York and with a branch in Seattle. Bailly’s specialty are luxury apartments and beach houses, hotels and even retail outlets. His trademark: elegant, high-grade interiors. At the imm cologne Marc Bailly sought inspiration; it’s his first time in Germany and he headed first to the Domotex in Hanover and then moved on to Cologne. Did he find stuff for his penthouses and beach houses in Cologne? And what designs, brands and themes appealed to him most?