Andrée Putman

Designer who employed a distinctive minimalism to create striking interiors, furniture and tableware
The Times
Putman helped to define the ‘boutique hotel’ and was always associated with restrained chic. She designed interiors for Yves Saint-Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, and a film set for Peter Greenaway
Putman helped to define the ‘boutique hotel’ and was always associated with restrained chic. She designed interiors for Yves Saint-Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, and a film set for Peter Greenaway
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The Times

Andrée Putman was one of the icons of French design in the 1980s, a tastemaker who, very much in the spirit of that period, embodied a mixture of glamour and accessibility (she frequented Studio 54 in New York, and Le Palace in Paris).

She is perhaps best known for her reintroduction of forgotten modernist designers such as Eileen Gray and Mallet-Stevens, and her string of interiors around the globe, from one of the first boutique hotels, the Morgans in New York, via the Pershing Hall and Sheraton-Roissy in Paris, to the Putman Hotel in Hong Kong. Her inventive and restless career was founded on a mix of self-assurance, rebellion and a touch of eccentricity that was part of the family make-up.

Andrée Aymard was born