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1. Scenography project for the Jean Nouvel, mes meubles d’architecte exhibition, 18th century department, Musée des Arts décoratifs,
Triptyques, walnut and colored mirrors, Gagosian Gallery and Galerie Patrick Seguin
Jean nouvel
mes meubles d’architecte
27 October 2016 – 12 February 2017
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> jean nouvel, mes meubles d’architecte
From 27 October 2016 to 12 February 2017, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs will be showing an exhibition of furniture and
objects designed by Jean Nouvel, one of the rare contemporary architects to have had more than a hundred of these
creations published since 1987. Jean Nouvel has treated this unique invitation not merely as a retrospective but as an
opportunity to create a dialogue with the museum, its history and its collections. The Jean Nouvel, mes meubles d’architecte
exhibition reveals itself with the museum, from the Middle Ages and Renaissance galleries to the 17 th and 18 th century
collections, but also in the graphic design and advertising spaces that Jean Nouvel designed in 1998, creating novel
situations and interferences.
2. Triptyques, 2014, walnut and colored mirrors, Gagosian Gallery
and Galerie Patrick Seguin © Aline Coquelle
3. Equilibrist, 2014, Artemide
Like other major figures of modern
the elemental. In 1987, given “carte
architecture, from Mies Van Der Rohe
blanche”
and Le Corbusier to Jean Prouvé, Jean
l’Innovation dans l’Ameublement), he
Design and Advertising spaces. Leaving
Nouvel has designed furniture over a
designed a line of furniture comprising
the ornate moldings, parquet floors
long period. He often says, “I am not a
five
Running
and circulation spaces of these former
designer but an architect who designs.”
counter to the aesthetic tendencies of
apartments in the Louvre intact, he
His
objects
the 1980s, aluminum evokes for him
created
are functional, absolutely rigorous and
the exploration of technological and
with removable Galva screens. Jean
always rooted in the culture of their
scientific
wealth
Nouvel is returning to these spaces
time,
of experience and to accompany and
almost twenty years later to show his
practice of an architecture of context.
extend
in
“types,” the iconic pieces he has been
Jean Nouvel’s “anti-design” uses existing
1995
Nouvel
developing for thirty years, and the Less
typologies, rejecting too “talkative” and
Design)
too conceptual furniture and prioritizing
furniture projects and objects.
furniture
and
mirroring
household
his
conception
and
by
aluminum
(Valorisation
prototypes.
advances.
his
he
VIA
architectural
created
to
With
JND
develop
his
projects,
(Jean
and
publish
de
his
In 1998, Jean Nouvel redesigned the
Musée
des
Arts
modular
Décoratifs’
exhibition
Graphic
spaces
and Less Less office furniture ranges.
They perfectly embody the Jean Nouvel
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4. Table au km, 2011, Gagosian Gallery and Galerie Patrick Seguin © Thierry Depagne
method: taking an elementary form and
the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and
Jean
constantly
the 17 th and 18 th centuries. He has
and its metamorphoses creates novel
created
it
with
perfecting
his
and
minimalist
lightening
vocabulary.
moments
major
concern,
light
contemplation
experiences by plunging us into semi-
He explores each typology, infinitely
and poetry, inviting visitors to sit on
darkness, leaving us to discover a new
experimenting with its combinations
the leather seats he designed for the
museum space in which light reveals
and expressing the notion of “zero
Abu Dabi Louvre (2016). The sensation
the full poetry of each object.
design” with which he reduces the
of the infinite produced by the Table
object, whether a shelf, armchair or
au Km (2011) echoes the altarpieces
The
table, to its most archetypal form.
and Pietàs, his marble carpets (2016)
respective of his furniture and objects,
Jean Nouvel’s design plays fully on
resonate
the
the modular and transformable, on the
and the Milana chair (1995) with the
d’architecte
reversible and foldable. It is the work
polychrome wood sgabelli.
a lesser-known facet of one of the
of an “architect who designs,” a design
In the 17 th and 18 th -century rooms, his
greatest
that redefines space and its rhythms.
large colored Triptyques mirrors (2014)
Often responding more to his desire
with
of
Nouvel’s
Renaissance
intaglia,
most
Jean
exhaustive
Nouvel,
mes
exhibition
contemporary
highlights
architects.
create multiple narrations, capturing
to
fragments of space and transforming
commissions, this radical body of work
autonomous
our
their
reveals a more intimate facet of the
reflections
thinking and work of the winner of the
presentation
into
the
initial
gold,
and particularly his favorite periods:
without
perceptions
orange
the
and
red
slightest
with
theatricality.
than
meubles
Jean Nouvel wanted to integrate this
Musée des Arts Décoratifs’ collections,
experiment
possible
to
specific
2008 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
key information
General curator:  
> Olivier Gabet, director of the Musées des Arts Décoratifs
Curators:  
> Karine Lacquemant, curatorial assistant, Modern and Contemporary department, Musée des Arts décoratifs
> Odile Fillion, Jean Nouvel Design
Scenography:
> Jean Nouvel
educational and cultural services
les arts décoratifs
exhibition catalogue
Pierre-Alexis Dumas,
The Educational and Cultural Department
« Jean Nouvel,
Chairman
organises museum tours for adults, groups
mes meubles d’architecte »
David Caméo,
and individuals
General director
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thematic workshop-tours and guided tours
Pascale de SEzE,
related to an exhibition for 4 to 18 year-olds
Communication director
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lectures and panel discussions
the museums
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Format: 24 x 32 cm
240 pages
180 illustrations
Connected full paper
Sale price: 49 €
Published: October 26, 2016
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