Andrée Putman Studio Unveils Iconic Furniture at Art Paris 2026

MILAN — French interior design master Andrée Putman passed away more than a decade ago — but her design studio and legacy continue to thrive.

Her daughter Olivia Putman and Andrée Putman Studio chief executive officer Aurélie Laure are gearing up to showcase new editions and select collectible interior pieces from Putman’s vast archive at Art Paris from April 9 to April 12. Art Paris takes place annually and is a showcase of modern and contemporary art, held at the city’s Grand Palais.

The collector pieces have been reinterpreted in previously unseen materials and will be presented at Art Paris for the first time. The selection will include the Mille et Un Carreaux table in a mirrored version, the Trois Carats et Demi side tables in stainless steel, wood, and mixed materials, the Pavé de Lumière lamp and others.

In February, the studio revealed the opening of La Galerie Andrée Putman and the debut of a re-editions furniture collection, which is being sold on the Andrée Putman website. The new space is set within the same compound as the late creative’s design practice, which is located on 9 bis avenue de Saxe in Paris’ 7th arrondissement. Laure said the collection of reedits took about a year to fine-tune and involved delving into Putman’s vast archives of drawings of bespoke projects and pieces.

“She did 150 interior design spaces for hotels, residences, offices and stores and she did very different kinds of projects,” explained Laure, who owns Putman’s trademark and the interior design practice.

During an interview with WWD in February, Laure explained that Putman’s style evolved in two distinct periods. The first was inspired by midcentury modern designers like Eileen Gray and Jean-Michel Frank. The second period, she said, was characterized by the boom of projects in the decades before her death, in which she developed a pure and timeless aesthetic.

The opening of the new Paris gallery was part of a centenary celebration commemorating the designer’s birth year, that kicked off last year and which culminated in a private event in December 2025.

Born in Paris on Dec. 23, 1925, Putman studied music at the city’s conservatory as a young girl. Her upbringing was conservative, and Putman rebelled early, sneaking off to the Café de Flore, where she fell under the spell of such luminaries as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Antonin Artaud, Albert Camus, Juliette Greco and Alberto Giacometti.

At the dawn of her professional life, she worked as a journalist and later worked for a design consultancy. At Karl Lagerfeld’s urging in the late ’60s, she shifted gears to interior design. In 1973, she teamed with Didier Grumbach, then president of France’s Chambre Syndicale, and founded Créateurs & Industriels to promote fashion and design. 

Putman opened her own agency, Ecart, in 1978, which continues today under the ownership of Pierre Yovanovitch, promoting early and midcentury design, reediting furniture from the likes of Frank, Gray, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Pierre Chareau and Mariano Fortuny.

Putman’s aesthetic has reverberated worldwide, from fashion to hospitality. Among her most memorable projects were the Morgans Hotel in New York, which was considered the first “boutique hotel” when it opened in 1984. She also designed the interiors of Air France’s Concorde, the office of France’s former minister of culture Jack Lang, several apartments for Lagerfeld and shop interiors for Barneys New York in Chelsea, Karl Lagerfeld, Azzedine Alaïa, Yves Saint Laurent and Guerlain as well as Le Bon Marché’s escalators.

Looking ahead, the studio has its eye on expansion of its architectural practice with new projects in hospitality, private residences and cultural spaces, and is working on the interior designs for the Christian Louboutin hotel in Melides, Portugal, which will be finished in September.