Jacqueline Lecoq:
Jacqueline Lecoq was born in Orléans, France, and was trained at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs under the guise of Eric Bagge. Upon graduation, she joined Marcel Gascoin (1907-1986) at his furniture design company, where she met Antoine Philippon (1930-1995) in 1952. The two formed a partnership in 1956 and worked and lived together until Philippon’s death in 1995.
Her vocabulary in furniture designs represents a new direction taken by French designers in the late 50s and throughout the 60s. They rejected the industrial mode of French postwar design and aimed to return harmony, elegance, craftsmanship and comfort to the home. Her work was always modernist, sharp, and geometrical, with new interpretations of the principles formulated by the Union des Artistes Modernes, such as the purity of style while showing respect for the materials used.