Les années Staudenmeyer, 25 ans de design en France

Pierre Staudenmeyer (1952-2007) appears in the portrait made by those who knew him as a likeable person, with unleashed vitality, capable of being interested in a number of things simultaneously. His name is forever linked to that of the galerie Neotu that marked the 80s and 90s. This apparently Italian name actually hid a neologism in disguise: neo-tout (neo-everything). The gallery made a synthesis of the current tendencies in the world of design. Staudenmayer was very interested in lamps, chairs and rugs, and collected them compulsively. He published some of the greater names in the discipline, from Martin Szekely to Christian Biecher or Mattia Bonetti. The lavish work, with a very distinguished layout (an elegance we could not do without), makes the link between his various adventures (that also include the RE and Mouvements modernes galleries) and the evolution of French design.

•Les années Staudenmeyer, 25 ans de design en France, directed by Chloé Braunstein-Kriegel, Norma éditions, 2009, 528 p., 50 €, ISBN : 978-2-9155-4225-7.