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.
Antoine Philippon & 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.
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Exhibitions
New York | The Female Voice in Modern Design: 1950 to 2000 Franco Albini & Franca Helg | Lisa Johansson-Pape
New York
|20 Apr – 3 Jul 2022
Press
ArtDaily
|June 2022
Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents 'The Female Voice in Modern Design, 1950-2000'
NEW YORK, NY.- Part I of a two-part exhibition, The Female Voice in Modern & Contemporary Design, 1950-2023, celebrates women’s contributions to the world...