Olivia Putman

Olivia Putman
Born Paris France
Residence Paris France
Nationality  France French
Education University of La Sorbonne Paris; art history; landscape architecture
Occupation Interior Design Design Scenography landscape architecture
Organization Studio Putman
Home town Paris France
Predecessor Andrée Putman
Spouse(s) Christophe Joron-Derem
Children Four children
Parent(s) Andrée Putman, Jacques Putman
Relatives The author Cyrille Putman is her brother
Awards "Dream Garden Prize" at the Garden Festival of Saint-Cloud, 2000; Nespresso contest, 2009; Lan Airlines contest 2012.
Website studioputman.com/en/

Olivia Putman is a French designer, daughter to Andrée Putman and heir to her mother's design studio, Studio Putman. Her works range from interior architecture to scenography and design.

Biography

Olivia Putman grew up in Paris with her mother, Andrée Putman, a designer, and her father Jacques Putman, an art collector, editor and critic. Through family acquaintances and her teenage nights at Le Palace, she got to meet the most eclectic figures of the artistic scene of those days,[1] including Andy Warhol and Yves Saint-Laurent. She befriended Christian Louboutin and Vincent Darré.

Career

After graduating from high school, Putman completed a bachelor’s degree in art history in 1987, at the Paris-Sorbonne University. She then divided her time and workspace between Paris and New York. She became the agent of the Ivorian painter Ouattara Watts, and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac introduced her to the modern art icon Jean-Michel Basquiat, whom she counted among her friends until he died.[2] For her first time as curator of an exhibition in 1988, the gallery owner Leo Castelli lent Putman some art pieces.[3] Le chiffre dans l’art contemporain (The figure in contemporary art) was then on display at the Parc Floral, in Vincennes, east of Paris.

This first exhibition gained Putman popularity and she started working with the association Usines Ephémères, which converts disused urban spaces into studios and exhibition sites. In 1990, the group transformed 161 450 square feet (15 000 m²) of the former Bretonneau Hospital in the 18th district of Paris, thus becoming the Ephemeral Hospital.

Landscape architecture (1994-2006)

Putman was drawn to Land Art ever since she met Christian Louboutin, a botanic fanatic. In 1994, she created temporary gardens combining art and agriculture with Jean-Paul Ganem, such as mixed fields of flax and lupin at Saint-Juire-Champgillon, in the west of France. At this stage, Putman was an active artist and started studying landscape management in 1995, to assert herself as such.

In 1997, Olivia Putman started as a freelancer and flew to Japan to design her first private garden. Public acknowledgement of her talent only took a few years. Her work for perfume creator Caron was awarded the Dream Garden Prize at the Garden Festival of Saint-Cloud in 2000. Putman also joined forces from time to time with her mother's design studio, Studio Andrée Putman, as a landscape architect. On such occasions, like the Pagoda House project in Tel Aviv or for Marc Jacobs in Paris, she would focus on the gardens and terraces.

Studio Putman, from mother to daughter (since 2007)

In 2007, Olivia Putman agrees to take the art direction of the Andrée Putman's agency, a long-standing desire of the founder. The "Andrée Putman agency" becomes "Studio Putman."

The interior architecture

2007 - Olivia led the renovation of the Morgans Hotel in New York. The hotel, the first boutique-hotel ever has been created by her mother, twenty five years before. In 2009, she signed the hotel "The Rivage" in Hong Kong.

2011 - Olivia Putman imagined the new offices for the National Federation of Public Works on Champs-Elysées, 5000 m² on the Champs-Elysées in Paris.

2013 - Studio Putman won in collaboration with Lilian Allen and Mathias Klotz an international competition to design the new VIP lounges for Lan Airlines and OneWorld. The first lounges opened in the airports of Buenos Aires, Bogota and Santiago de Chile. Olivia revealed the Sofitel Paris Arc de Triomphe in the Champs-Elysées neighbourhood.

2014 - Olivia prensents her new hôtel : Can Faustino on the island of Minorca and a new VIP lounge for LATAM in São Paulo, Brazil.

2015 - VIP lounge for Latam in Santiago de Chile

Scenography

2009 - Olivia Putman created the scenography for the Madeleine Vionnet exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris and participated in staging shows singer Christophe at Olympia in Paris.

2010 - Olivia Putman is, with Sebastien Grandin, curator of the exhibition "Andrée Putman, ambassador of style" at the Paris city Hall. The exhibition attracted 250,000 visitors.

2013 - Olivia became the ambassador of French creation at the Ambiente Fair in Frankfurt. For this event, she designed spaces symbolizing the art of French living.

2014 - During the "French May" event in Hong Kong, Studio Putman presents two exhibitions about Andrée and Olivia Putman

Design

I believe that we live in a time where people are fed up with "design for design". Design is successful when you have the right answer for its purpose, says Olivia Putman

2010 - She won a competition organized by Nespresso and created the " Ritual " collection.

Between 2007 and 2013, she designed objects for Fermob, Emeco, Serralunga, Pierre Frey, Charles Paris, Drucker, Deshoulières, Hine and the taps brand THG. Olivia Putman also created unique artworks for philanthropic associations.

2011 - Olivia was appointed artistic director of Lalique. While pursuing its activity at Studio Putman, she imagines, among others, the "Orgue" collection for the prestigious cristallier.

2013 - Responding to a request from the house Nina Ricci, Olivia Putman offer time limited series , his own interpretation of the legendary bottle of " Air Time ". She then enrolled in line with the creators such as Andy Warhol and Philippe Starck which worked bor Nina Ricci before. She also revealed the "O" collection of the tap manufacturer THG.

2014 - She imagined a furniture collection of Ralph Pucci in New York a new tap collection "Metamorphose" for THG.

2015 - The "Metamorphose" collection is awarded best design in BD WEST, California

Personal

Olivia Putman has four children, Julien, Noé, Carl and Louis and in 2010 married Parisian auctioneer Christophe Joron Derem.

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