Andrée Putman – Andrée Box
Lacquered black wood and sterling silver plated metal. Limited edition of 8 signed and numbered examples.
Andrée Putman
Andrée Putman is probably the most famous French designer.
She has undoubtedly marked the end of the 20th century, through her many projects both in France and abroad.
Her creative bulimia and her ability to adapt, her insatiable curiosity and her eclecticism inspired her to carry out large-scale projects: hotels, museums, shops, private houses, furniture and decoration for ministers of the state.
In parallel to this intense activity, she re-edited pieces by Jean Michel Frank and Eileen Gray, immense talents of the 30s and 40s, through her gallery Ecart.
In 2009, she was, for the first time, the subject of a personal exhibition in the gallery En Attendant les Barbares. She chose as her theme, the box, an object that she has always collected.
Andrée Putman is an Officer of the Legion of Honor, Knight of Arts and Letters and has numerous distinctions: Good Design Award (USA), Modernism Design Award (USA), Design Oscar, European Grand Prix of Interior Architecture (Germany).
In 2011, a retrospective of her career honored her at the Paris City Hall.
Energy, discipline, thirst for culture, Andrée Putman is the icon par excellence of a certain art de vie à la française, where behind an assumed elegance, irony and insolence are never very far away.
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Andrée Putman – Big O Lacquer Box
Lacquered wood. Blue interior. Limited edition of 8 signed and numbered examples + 4 artist’s proof.
Andrée Putman – Small O Box
Lacquered wood. Limited edition of 8 signed and numbered examples + 4 atist’s proofs.
Andrée Putman – The Pencil Box
Plumier in patinated black bronze. Limited edition of 100 signed and numbered examples + 4 artist’s proofs. Alternative patina: brown.
Andrée Putman – Three Golds Box
Lacquered wood, bronze balls gilded with white, yellow, and pink gold leaf. Limited edition of 8 signed and numbered examples.
Andrée Putman – The Cube
Cube with hidden compartment in tinted macassar ebony, in which is embedded a silver plated metal ribbon. Limited edition of 8 numbered examples + 4 artist proofs.