Le Signe, National Center for Graphic Design is showing an exhibition on one of the great figures of French publishing in the second half of the 20th century, Pierre Faucheux.
The vast number of book covers and mock-ups that he made for the Club Français du Livre as of 1946, and twenty years later for Livre de Poche, have left their marks on generations of readers, thanks to the cutting edge processes used, such as his famous surrealist quartering.
The exhibition highlights an all too unknown aspect of Pierre Faucheux’s work, his interest for urban planning and architecture. Through successful collaborations such as the development of the ski resort of Les Arcs with the designer Charlotte Perriand in 1967 or his contribution to surrealist exhibitions from 1959 to 1965, the designer developed a unique reflection on space: that of books, their covers, and also the physical space of buildings and interiors.
Echoing the Salon du Livre of Chaumont, the ‘Pierre Faucheux’ exhibition celebrates the book as an object and lets us dive into the creative process of the designer who described himself as a, ‘book architect and space writer’.
Dates:
November 22nd 2018 to January 27th 2019
Location:
Le Signe National Center for Graphic Design
52000 Chaumont
France
More Information:
centrenationaldugraphisme.fr
The vast number of book covers and mock-ups that he made for the Club Français du Livre as of 1946, and twenty years later for Livre de Poche, have left their marks on generations of readers, thanks to the cutting edge processes used, such as his famous surrealist quartering.
The exhibition highlights an all too unknown aspect of Pierre Faucheux’s work, his interest for urban planning and architecture. Through successful collaborations such as the development of the ski resort of Les Arcs with the designer Charlotte Perriand in 1967 or his contribution to surrealist exhibitions from 1959 to 1965, the designer developed a unique reflection on space: that of books, their covers, and also the physical space of buildings and interiors.
Echoing the Salon du Livre of Chaumont, the ‘Pierre Faucheux’ exhibition celebrates the book as an object and lets us dive into the creative process of the designer who described himself as a, ‘book architect and space writer’.
Dates:
November 22nd 2018 to January 27th 2019
Location:
Le Signe National Center for Graphic Design
52000 Chaumont
France
More Information:
centrenationaldugraphisme.fr
