Andrée Putman

1978: year of creation

"Beauty has nothing to do with how much a thing costs. Wars and human disasters are often linked to minds plagued by envy and burdened with the hardships of privation.

I started with the idea that people without much money could have in their daily lives small items of beauty, designed by artistic creators, that would indulge them, simplify their existence, stir a tiny excitement. Like the object you pour coffee from every morning: it could be the fruit of a labor of love by someone who worked on t, improved it, came up with a new design for the spout so that last drop doesn't fall. I think everyone benefits from such an object. It may be naïve, but that is the way things work in life."

All the sites and objects we design are born from the conviction that they influence the lives of those who use them. We are not looking for the spectacular, the "pretty" but meaningless, or dictatorial objects that impose one way of being used.

We work by listening respectfully to our clients and partners in order to conceive, together, projects that help us live, that make life easier, lighter. Without forgetting for a moment the supreme elegance that distinguishes creations by the Studio's founder.