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The exhibition Icons of French Design is a display of the world of French design over the past 15 years , through an array of objects identified as trademarks of a generation.
Twenty Icons of French Design showcases powerful symbols of French creativity and underlines a capacity to go beyond established codes of conduct , to reinterpret them, to be in sync with the times or to think ahead, keeping in mind usefulness, seduction and surprise of the pieces of art.
The exhibition also questions our relationship to images, which permeates now more than ever our western societies, including the world of design. How does the objest become a visual symbol of its time, whilst simultaneously casting away its immediate use?
Be it a revolutionary aluminum beer can, a modular screen for dividing space made up of hundreds of detachable plastic pieces, the first industrial chair in transparent plastic, the first stereo lithography chair or a brilliant industrial chair conceived in the fifties, French design stands out through its ability to innovate , making the most of the state-of–the–art technologies which is a tribute to a country where engineering plays a vital role.
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Cedric Morisset
Curator
The exhibition Icons of French Design aims at mapping the world of French design over a century. It shows strong symbols of French modern and contemporary creation and proves the designers’ capacity to break the rules, to reinterpret them, to embody the present time or to anticipate their epoch, always with the will to serve, seduce and surprise.
Icons of French design showcases the most remarkable creations of French design, from Philippe Starck to Jean Prouvé, from Pierre Paulin to Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, whether it is a modulary space divider made of hundreds of removable plastic elements, or the first industrialized chair in transparent plastic, or a genius industrial chair designed in the fifties. The exhibition will show the ability of French design to innovate through the use of the sharpest new technologies of each period, typical of a country where engineering plays a primordial part.
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