Pierre Paulin is one of the most important designers from France. Born in 1927, he collaborated early in his career with large furniture companies such as Thonet and later Artifort with whom he created seminal seating designs. The Museum of Modern Art New York took an early interested in his work as early as in the mid sixties including it in their collection, and his oeuvre now is part of the collection of virtually all of the leading Design Institutions around the world including the Moma, V&A, and Centre Pompidou.

In the late 1960s he was asked to rethink the private apartment of the French President in the Elysée Palace in Paris. He created a fabulous décor that is today recognised to be iconic among the best of 20th Century French Design history. He also collaborated regularly with the French Institution Mobilier National around challenging design projects, and with whom he developed some of his favourite designs including the four designs that are editioned by Perimeter Editions.

Pierre Paulin’s personal design approach expresses a great instinctive sense of proportion and develops the best examples of organic sensuous curves that have been a great inspiration for numerous international younger designers. Now 80 years old, Paulin is as active as ever, rethinking some of his earlier designs and drawing others anew and collaborating with Perimeter.

His career was celebrated in 2007/2008 with three big solo retrospective exhibitions: Pierre Paulin Super Designer, Villa de Noailles, Hyeres France; Pierre Paulin: le Design au Pouvoir, Mobilier National, Paris and Pierre Paulin Supermoderne, Grand Hornu, Belgium.