André Monpoix: Precision in the Service of Reconstruction
A discreet yet essential figure in French design of the 1950s, André Monpoix embodied the spirit of post-war reconstruction. A student of René Gabriel and collaborator with Meubles TV, he developed a rigorous, functional and modernist body of furniture in which metal, Formica and wood are combined with remarkable balance.
A look back at a still underappreciated designer whose desk, presented at the Salon des Arts Ménagers in 1956, remains a manifesto of French functionalism.