Andree putnam biography of barack

1925 - 2013

“Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style”

Influences: Early modernism, Eileen Gray, Pierre Chareau, Jean-Michel Frank

Notable clients: Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint Laurent, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubbell, Azzedine Alaïa, Air France

The queen of the checkerboard, self labeled '“archeologist of modernity” and the doyenne of Parisian design… Andrée Putman, the great French designer was born in Paris in 1925 to a wealthy, intellectual family.

She began her artistic journey in music, studying piano after her mother’s encouragement, then moved on to composition after being told that she was not good enough to be a successful pianist. She was successfully studying composition at the Paris Conservatoire when she decided against a career in music at age 19.

Instead, she entered the world of design and fashion as a journalist, first working at