Designer (1944) - Bordeaux, France
"The culture of the contemporary is not popular in this country." It is on this hard finding the late 1960s, Jean-Pierre Laporte, a tireless perfectionist, tears in his vocation, after ten years to become fitter. Without the author's passion for design after the war, the contribution of this avant-garde designer would have remained unknown. His chair "Esox" was featured in the exhibition "Mobi-Boom" to the Decorative Arts and a retrospective, organized in parallel to the gallery Edward Edwards, has created this monograph. Four main design will welcome the importance and quality of work of this designer. Breathable comfort functionalist complex forms of his furniture as "block" of nature, (line 1150 for Thonet, program "Anemone" seat "Girolle") match those of the body. to see its achievements interior design. Printed in two colors with metallic ink, this book is bathed in blue-silver gray. This aesthetic choice, like "dust" black and white photos, sometimes out of place and produces the opposite effect.
