Modern living room with two white chairs, a round wooden coffee table, wall art featuring two faces, and minimalist decor on a console table against a white wall.
La Galerie, the new showroom adjacent to the Paris studio. Photography by Sébastien Véronèse.

September 10, 2026

Words: Peter Webster

Milestones Of Design: New Chapter For Andrée Putman’s Design Icons

For years, Andrée Putman (1925-2013) was a force in the avant-garde of Parisian design, blowing away the fustiness of French style while respecting its classical essence. Her company, Ecart International, reissued furniture by Mariano Fortuny, Eileen Gray, Robert Mallet-Stevens, and other 20th-century masters, many long forgotten. But it was a 1984 New York project—Morgans Hotel, with its gray-on-gray palette and black-and-white checkered bathrooms—that not only introduced Putman’s aesthetic—sober elegance charged with witty drama—to the U.S. but also pioneered a new category of lodging: the boutique property. Having sold Ecart, Putman opened an eponymous Paris studio in 1997; her residential, retail, and hospitality interiors spanned the globe, while her unmistakable furniture and objects made historical reference look as modern as tomorrow. Now run by Aurélie Laure and Olivia Putman, the designer’s daughter, Andrée Putman Studio celebrates its founder’s centennial by reintroducing her legacy to a generation that never checked in to Morgans or flew on the Concorde. Launched at Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs last December, the month of Putman’s birth, the studio is reissuing characteristic pieces like the Midi Suspendu daybed along with new items inspired by archival drawings such as the Trois Carats side table and the Reflet Cartésien mirror. January saw the opening of La Galerie, a new Paris showroom, followed in May by Andrée Putman Studio New York, a permanent outpost on the Bowery, steps from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s old studio, where Putman herself was a striking presence in the downtown art world. andreeputman.fr

Milestones: 100 Years

  • Minimalist workspace with a light wood desk, modern chair, floor lamp, and tall mirror against a vivid blue wall with wooden flooring.
    Reissued pieces appear at Andrée Putman Studio New York, the recently opened U.S. outpost. Photography by Sébastien Véronèse.
  • Four black chairs are stacked together in front of a red, geometric, tunnel-like wall artwork with text at the center, in a minimalist room with white walls and floor.
    A nearby stack of Robert Mallet-Stevens chairs, a Putman favorite. Photography by Sébastien Véronèse.
  • Modern living room with two white chairs, a round wooden coffee table, wall art featuring two faces, and minimalist decor on a console table against a white wall.
    La Galerie, the new showroom adjacent to the Paris studio. Photography by Sébastien Véronèse.
  • Blue velvet chaise lounge with angled backrest and dark wooden legs, shown from the side against a white background.
    The reissued Midi Suspendu daybed in oak and mohair velvet. Photography by Sébastien Véronèse.
  • Three geometric, hexagonal prism-shaped objects, two black with white edges and one metallic, are arranged on a white background.
    Trois Carats side tables in oak and stainless steel, a new design. Photography by Sébastien Véronèse.
  • A modern black table with geometric legs stands on a black and white checkered floor, with a rectangular abstract mirror placed above it between two white columns.
    A furniture vignette in the reissue launch exhibition at Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, December 2025. Photography Courtesy of Andrée Putman.
  • A woman sits cross-legged on a couch, holding a cup to her face, surrounded by patterned pillows in a modern room.
    Andrée Putman. Photography by Marcus Leatherdale.
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