Studio Andrée Putman

To mark the centenary of designer Andrée Putman, the eponymous studio is making a grand comeback. This new chapter stems from the determination of Olivia Putman, daughter of the interior designer and Artistic Director, but also of the takeover of the agency by Aurélie Laure, a former collaborator who has since become CEO.

The Concorde, the stairs at Le Bon Marché, several offices in Paris’s République district, the famous Morgans Hotel in New York, the CAPC in Bordeaux, the Wasserturm Hotel in Cologne, the ball-foot bathtub… all these icons of design and architecture bear the Putman stamp.

Born on 23 December 1925, Andrée Aynard, who later became Andrée Putman, would have celebrated her 100th birthday in 2025. A singular figure in the French and global design landscape, this creative spirit, who worked in journalism and for Prisunic, developed a unique vocabulary throughout her career. This oscillates between minimalism, classicism and avant-garde, punctuated with black and white checks and materials considered poor.

Add to this an immoderate taste for industrial architecture and the radical design of the 1920s and 1930s. In short, she was a rare spirit who displayed and cultivated with precision a unique and instantly recognisable silhouette, dressed in dark, strict suits, with a strand of hair on one side and red lips, from which came an inimitable husky voice, a lover of bon mots and always ready to defend the arts and free spirits.

Although the grande dame of French design left us in 2013, her style and work live on and are now enjoying a new lease of life. This is thanks to Olivia Putman, the designer’s daughter and also Artistic Director of the Studio, as well as Aurélie Laure, who took her first steps in the agency’s communications department before taking over as head of it in January 2025.

After an initial private celebration in December 2025 in the Maréchaux hall of the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris, entitled ‘Centenaire d’Andrée Putman, Icône du Design’ (Andrée Putman Centenary, Design Icon), Studio Putman will unveil around forty reissues of furniture and collector’s items. These include the Trois Carats et demi and Éclipse tables, the Croqueuse de diamants and À Bras Ouverts chairs, the Midi suspendu chaise longue, the Luminator and Compas dans l’oeil floor lamps, the Reflet cartésien mirror, the Voie Lactée rug and the Correspondances desk.

Putman style enthusiasts will be able to discover or rediscover these pieces in a brand new Parisian showroom, which opened in January 2026, and in a space across the Atlantic in New York, which will open in the spring. In addition to the interior design agency’s development of new projects, other events to celebrate the centenary of this design icon are also planned throughout the year. A whole new era for Studio Putman that we can’t wait to discover. •

The exhibition “Centenary of Andrée Putman, Icon of Design” at the Hall des Maréchaux (10–12 December 2025) was accompanied by talks hosted by FORMÆ. Discover the full conversations by clicking on this link.

photos : Andrée Putman © Jean Larivière • Sofitel Arc, 2013 © ACCOR • Damier at Morgans © Deidi von Schaewen • Compas dans l’oeil floor lamps, Mobilier Andrée Putman, Reissues • © Studio Andrée Putman • Trois Carats et demi table, Mobilier Andrée Putman, Reissues • © Studio Andrée Putman