Born in 1952 he’s living and working in Paris.
In the eighties he met Ettore Sottsass and had a collaboration with the
Memphis Group in italia. His encounter with the master crafstmen of Murano
glassware as well as with the french master crafstmen will be of a definitive
importance in his course of creation. Together with their ancestral knowledge,
he created new shapes.
This unique pieces of art are very
quickly displayed at the Maeght Galery in Paris.
In 1992 he started to work for Bernardaud
for which he designed a full set of cups, plates and table ware as well
as the complete interior decoration of tea rooms located in Paris and
New York.
In 1994 he had the charge of the design
for all the furniture and luminaries for the “Café Marly”
at the Louvre museum in Paris.
In 1995 he created glasses and luminaries
for the “Saint louis” cristal ware manufacture; In the meantime
he started his collaboration with Edition Limitée.
In 1998, he is awarded the best designer
of the year.
In 1999, as part of a national commission, he created the office furniture for the Minestry of culture in Paris.
In 2003, he participated in the Venice Biennal, with is "Absolut Generation" project at Palazzo Zoeninosio.
In 2005, he participated at the exhibition "100 years of French Design"in Beijing.
In 2006, he accomplishedthe decoration ofthe Hotel Marignan in Paris.
In 2008, he conceived the restaurant "Pierre Gagnaire" in Seoul.
Presenting himself as a "neoclassic" designer in the tradition of the great French ensembliers, in contact with cabinetmarkers, glassblowers,and ceramicists, he shows himself as much as an artist as an artisan. And once he takes charge of the decoration, it's a know-how of excellence on which he calls.
"I'm attracted to transforming the aesthetics of an object, rather than revolutionizing of an object, rather than revolutionizing its usage."
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