A legend in her own right, parisian born Andree Putman is one of the
contemporary world's leading interior designers.
Putman has an eclectic background which is why I have taken a big interest i her.
She began to work in the 1960s as a journalist for the design magazine 'l’oeil'
(eye) and to write the column ‘decoration’ in the 'les cahiers de elle' and
had a career as a marketing consultant in the fashion world. Ms. putman may
be best known for having assembled a collection of 20th century modern
furnishings to be reproduced by her firm 'ecart international', founded in 1978.
It is largely through ecart's efforts that pieces by at the time forgotten designers such
as eileen gray, mallet-stevens, pierre chareau, mariano fortuny, rene herbst
and jean-michel frank were re-introduced to the design world.
Andrée putman designed the interior of shops for yves st. laurent,
karl lagerfeld, thierry mugler, azzedine alaia, cartier, ebel,
mannequins for barneys, interiors of the concorde for air france.
when ian schrager and steve rubell opened morgans hotel,
designed by ms. putman, in 1984, the notion of the 'boutique hotel'
was born.
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