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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Pierre Guariche
Author: JACOB DELPHINE / BLAISSE LIONEL
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/02/2021
Imprint: EDITIONS NORMA
Price: $150.00
Publishing status: Active
Pierre Guariche (1926-1995) was a leading interior architect, furniture, and lighting designer in
postwar France. He created a prolific body of work during what is known as the Thirty Glorious
Years (1945-1975), a period of economic prosperity and high growth in France. He was an early
adopter of industrial materials and production techniques that emerged during the 1950s, and is
known for his remarkable lighting fixtures and simple, elegant furniture designs that could be
manufactured on a large scale. He worked with innovative companies like Airborne, Steiner, and
Pierre Disderot; he co-founded a design collective (Atelier de Recherche Plastique- ARP); and was
the artistic director for the Meurop furniture company in Belgium. In advance of Charlotte
Perriand in Les Arcs and Marcel Breuer in Flaine, he worked with the architect Michel Bezancon on
the creation of La Plagne, the first comprehensive winter sports resort in France.
Making use of unpublished archives, this book looks back on a rich itinerary of over 200 interior
architecture and design projects, almost as many pieces of furniture, and a series of remarkable
lighting fixtures (reissued today by Sammode) which shed light on the modernity and timeless
elegance of this remarkable creator.
Text in English and French.
250 colour, 250 b/w images
ISBN: 9782376660286
Dimension: 305mm X 235mm