Andree Putman
Andrée Putman was born on December 23, 1925, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. She was a French citizen, and she worked in the French language throughout her career as a designer.
Putman built her professional life as an interior and product designer. Those two areas of design — the spaces people move through and the objects they encounter within them — formed the core of her work as a practitioner.
As a French interior and product designer, Putman continued working across both disciplines over the course of her career. Her identity as a designer was French in its orientation, and the 6th arrondissement of Paris, where she had been born, would later figure again at the close of her life.
Putman died on January 19, 2013, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris — the same part of the city where she had come into the world nearly eighty-eight years before. She had spent her career working as an interior and product designer, and she remained a French designer throughout, a fact her biography makes plain from its first date to its last.
Quotes by Andree Putman
I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.
Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.
I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me – American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.
Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.
To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream.
For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another.