{"id":3095,"date":"2015-11-27T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/en\/inspirations\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2015-11-27T12:45:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:45:23","slug":"interior-designers-andree-putman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/2015\/11\/27\/interior-designers-andree-putman\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP INTERIOR DESIGNERS | Andr\u00e9e Putman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\nAndr\u00e9e Putman<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(23 December 1925\u00a0\u2013 19 January 2013) was a French interior and product designer.\u00a0Andr\u00e9e Christine Aynard<\/strong>\u00a0was born into a wealthy family of bankers and notables from\u00a0Lyon. Her paternal grandfather, Edouard Aynard, founded the Maynard & Sons Bank; her paternal grandmother, Rose de Montgolfier, was a descendant of the hot-air balloon inventors\u2019 family. Her father was a graduate from the prestigious\u00a0Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure\u00a0who spoke seven languages but swore to a life of austerity and seclusion to protest against his own milieu; her mother, Louise Saint-Ren\u00e9 Taillandier, was a concert pianist who found comfort in the frivolity of \u201cbeing a great artist without a stage\u201d.
\nAndr\u00e9e grew up in the 6th district of Paris, rue des Grands-Augustins. As a child, she spent most of her summers at the Fontenay Abbey, a magnificent Cistercian structure which used to be the\u00a0Montgolfier brothers\u2019 workshop. This austere place influences her first aesthetical perceptions: the geometry of the architecture, the views and the perspectives, \u201cthe effects of stone and light, the richness and the diversity of non-colours\u2026\u201d<\/em> These elements find an echo in her future achievements:
\n\u201cAll this made me very wary of awful excesses of anything\u201d.<\/em><\/strong>
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\nAndr\u00e9e is fifteen years old when she empties her bedroom and furnishes it with just a hard iron bed, a chair and a Mir\u00f3 poster on the white walls. This early expression of her desire of independence leads to a confrontation with her family who wonders \u201cif she realises the sorrow she makes them feel?\u201d<\/em>
\nHowever, Andr\u00e9e\u2019s artistic education first came through music: her mother, Louise Saint-Ren\u00e9 Taillandier, takes her and her sister to concerts very early and urges them to learn the piano. She is nevertheless told that her hands are not the ones of piano player and that, as a consequence, she will never be a virtuoso. She therefore studies composition at the National Conservatory of Paris. At the age of nineteen, she receives the First Harmony Prize of the Conservatory from Francis Poulenc\u00a0himself; on this occasion, he tells her that at least ten more years of unremitting work and ascetic life will be necessary to \u2013 maybe \u2013 aspire to a career as a composer. She then pictures herself living like the Carmelite nuns at the Fontenay Abbey and this sentence cuts short her musical career, a future planned as a tribute to her mother. Andr\u00e9e therefore decides to satisfy her curiosity another way.
\n\u201cWhat can one do when one did not go to school and is a musician who stopped playing music?\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
\nshe asks her grandmother, Madeleine Saint-Ren\u00e9 Taillandier, \u201cice queen and socialite\u201d president of the literary prize F\u00e9mina. \u201cNothing except messenger.\u201d Taking her grandmother\u2019s advice, Andr\u00e9e starts working as a messenger for\u00a0Femina\u00a0magazine. While taking care of all the dirty little jobs of the office, she observes with a sharp eye the social theatre which takes place during meetings.
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