Roger Tallon, the man of a new formal industrial language,
curves, has just left us. The one to whom we owe the
first portable televisions, the racy line of the TGV or Eurostar,
the cabin of the Montmartre funicular, the Metro of Mexico, the staircase
helical made of aluminum, but which also gave another face to
familiar everyday objects, from the watch to the toothbrush,
was the father of French industrial aesthetics.
Pioneer and creator out of the ordinary for the greatest
companies and at the service of the greatest number, Roger Tallon
the one who introduced design as a discipline in its own right
higher education, creating in 1963 a design class at
the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. His creations have
changed the way we travel, watch and live with the
machines and objects.
Recently, Roger Tallon donated his archives to the Museum
of the decorative arts of Paris. He leaves us his constant concern for comfort
and its unique gesture at the intersection of art and
the use.