With Andrée Putman disappears a very great artist, both designer and elegant interior designer who knew how to free herself from the norms with an extraordinary creativity. She was a free woman who knew how to embrace the evolution of our society by creating close links with art, fashion, design and architecture. Timelessness and sobriety characterize the objects, furniture and spaces she has designed with talent, mixing materials and styles with requirement.
She brought her wonderful talent to bear on the full range of everyday objects. She wanted to create «beautiful things accessible to all» to beautify and soften life, by introducing a small ferment of mischief: a new drawing for the beak of a coffee maker that prevents the drop from falling, a staircase designed as a necklace or a new setting for a large champagne brand…
Everywhere, at all scales, on objects but also on spaces, for individuals as for public buildings, Andrée Putman has laid down her feminine touch and imposed a style, a mixture of rigour and sensuality, where luxury rhymes with beauty but also with well-be and with spirit. “A house must first have spirit,” she said.
Since her first creations for Prisunic, she has enjoyed juggling contrasts, defying social conventions, creating or reinventing all kinds of living spaces, “peace spaces”, with a magnificent eclecticism: interior design of the Concorde, design of the first boutique-hotel in New York, the Morgans, ministers' offices, especially that of Jack Lang , design of corners and cabins of care Helena Rubinstein in the stores... In 2007, a pharmaceutical laboratory in Basel and the Andrée Putman Tower in Hong Kong saw the light of day, a bold testimony of his talent and astonishing creativity.
His daughter, Olivia, who took over the «Putman studio» in 2007, will live his name in the world and continue to promote the influence of France and its creators.