Actualités

13 May 2020

Charles & Ray Eames

Him: Ivy League style with a bow tie; Her: a short fringe and bun, flared tunic dress and Peter Pan collar. Charles and Ray Eames remain for posterity the fusional couple depicted in a quirky, cheerful portrait as if pinned to the ground by the metal structures of their chairs.…

13 May 2020

Charlotte Perriand

Charlotte Perriand attracted the attention of Le Corbusier as early as 1927 with her Bar sous le toit (bar under the roof), presented at the Salon d’automne, which already made use of a functional style, stripped of the dross of Art Deco, which was then in vogue. However, when, a…

13 May 2020

Mies Van Der Rohe

Unquestionably, by redesigning the Chicago skyline with shimmering buildings that, according to Mike Davis, remain, with their “vertical arrogance,” “the gravestones of our age of accelerated growth,” Mies van der Rohe applied the precept that had been iterated as early as 1924 that “architecture is the will of the epoch…

13 May 2020

Harry Bertoia

Harry Bertoia left Italy at the age of 15, learnt the art of handcrafted jewellery and then joined the famous Cranbrook Academy of Art, which was a real incubator for American designers. In 1952, the Knolls, impressed by his creativity, gave him carte blanche to create a chair, which is…

13 May 2020

Eero Saarinen

Eliel Saarinen was the son of the architect and director of the venerable Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he trained in his early years. Saarinen proved quite clearly that a person with dyslexia could become hyper-gifted with practically no classical education. His 192-m high steel arch, built in St Louis,…

13 May 2020

Le Corbusier

One might think that interior fittings had long been a minor concern for Le Corbusier, a utopian architect who liked to bring a city into a building as others fitted ships into rum bottles. With his Voisin plan, drawn up in 1925, he would happily have reduced Paris to twenty…

20 December 2019

Les Frères Bouroullec

Together with the Castiglioni, the Bourroullec’s are the other brothers of sense of design who share without problem a twin ego and an almost archaic synchronous vision. Elder Ronan comes from the Decorative Arts, Erwan his junior by 5 years, from the Cergy School of Art. Everything goes very fast…

20 December 2019

John Pawson

John Pawson John Pawson began his career in the textile industry and eventually designed Calvin Klein’s boutique on NYC’s 5th Avenue. Meanwhile, with a long stay in Japan, he had met designer Shiro Kurumata and on his return to England joined the Architectural Association. He designed the interior of London’s…

20 December 2019

Pierre Jeanneret

Pierre Jeanneret 1896-1967 Pierre Jeanneret is the cousin of Charles-Edouard said Le Corbusier and in the photographs where they are both, we are troubled by a kind of mirror effect: 10 years separate them, a few centimeters and the choice of their eyeglass frames, but no divergence when Pierre Jeanneret leaves…

20 December 2019

Antonio Cittero

Antonio Citerrio, nicknamed “gentleman of design” for the perfect elegance of his creations is like his elders Castiglioni graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan and his passion for design never eclipses the priority given to the space. His international design reflects the influence of Mies Van der Rohe,…