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Les Villages 1993

Paperback
Format 16.5x 24 cm
144 pages
Illustrations: 57 colour, 56 black and white


On the initiative of Jean-Claude Maugirard, then managing director of Via, in conjunction with Industries Françaises de l'Ameublement, Via Presse, the newsletter for professionals involved in contemporary furniture design, edited by Christine Colin, became Les Villages. The title referred to the creation of a 'Publishers' Village' at the Paris Furniture Salon. With this series title, Jean-Claude Maugirard wanted to draw attention to the 'human relationships' that the village epitomises: 'nobody is responsible for building a town except time, and the many craftsmen who first built it then the people who live there afterwards'.


Contents :

Preface by Philippe A.Mayer, president of the Union Nationale des Industries Françaises de l'Ameublement, editorial by Jean-Claude Maugirard, texts by Christine Colin, Jean-Pascal Billaud, Gilles de Bure, Brigitte Fitoussi, Chantal Granier, Dominique Leguay, Yves Pérennou, interviews with Charlotte Perriand, Yves Marbrier, Claude Levy-Soussan, Mariette Landon, Marc Newson, Samuel Coriat, Daniel Rozenzstroch, Ermine Hersher, Paul Mathieu and Michael Ray, projects and work by Delo Lindo, Eric Raffy, Hans Hopfer, Vincent Beaurin, Not Dead, Bonnel and Collet, Didier Gomez, Thibault Desombre, Poillerat, Armando Locatelli, Nicolas Sersiron, Serge Hebras, Christophe Pillet, Rena Dumas, Christian Astuguevieille, Philippe Renaud and Patrice Gruffaz, Yves Halard, Christian Duc, Benoit Hamot, Martine Harlé, Pascal Mourgue, Chafik, Mathias, Jean-François Payen, Irena Rosinski, Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti, Kristian Gavoille, Olivier Gagnère, Hiroyuki Yamakado, Coll-Part, Olga Soe, Tom Tilleul, Martine Harlé, Pagnon and Pelhaître, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nicole Wagner-Vriz, Martine Bedin, François Bauchet, Eric Jourdan, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Jean Nouvel, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Eugène Brunelle, Bruno Borione, Rei Kawakubo, Philippe Starck, Martin Szekely, Pierre Beucler, Pierre Charpin, Andrée Putman. Graphic design: Jocelyn Cottencin, illustrations: Julie Plunkett, Melinda Herron, Marianne Pascal, photographs: Michel Dupuy, Guy Beauché, Marie Bossis and Didier Gouvard, Dominique Feintrenie.