Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost Design, Dominique Perrault Architecture

Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost Design, Dominique Perrault Architecture (GLP/DPA) highlights the work of Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost, from the beginnings of her collaboration with Dominique Perrault – the treatment of the interior spaces of the Bibliothèque nationale de France – up to working on the layout of the Pavillon Dufour at the Palace of Versailles, as well as the furniture and objects that she designed.

The result of a nourishing exchange between an architect, Dominique Perrault, a designer, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost, a journalist, Michèle Champenois, and a graphic designer-typographer, Philippe Apeloig, this book allows us to restore the intimate links between design and architecture. Four voices transcribe the paradoxical force of a work which exists beyond the achievements in which it is deployed. In her essay “Design in situ” and in her texts introducing the different projects, Michèle Champenois deciphers the interplay of interventions and the powerful harmony of the dialogue which ensures modernity and sustainability in this architectural work.

The elegance, graphic rigor and typographic research of the Apeloig studio reflect the formal requirements of Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost's creations, as well as the minimal art of which her work is part.

Widely illustrated with photographs (Georges Fessy, André Morin, Vincent Fillon, etc.), drawings and plans, the book presents a detailed account of around ten major achievements, from the grand theater of Albi to the Citylights buildings of the Pont de-Sèvres in Boulogne; from the Vienna Tower to the Arganzuela footbridge in Madrid. The use of metal mesh, in numerous patterns and functions, is emblematic of the designer's work.

• 23 x 30.5 cm
• 360 pages
• 500 illustrations
• Hardcover
• ISBN: 978-2-9155-42851

Text in French only

Michèle Champenois est journaliste, critique d’architecture et de design. Au Monde, puis au Monde 2, le magazine, elle a publié de nombreux portraits et reportages et couvert l’actualité de ces domaines. Elle a collaboré à d’autres publications comme L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui et à des émissions sur France-Culture. Elle tient une chronique mensuelle à la radio, sur Fréquence Protestante : « De l’art de construire des villes à celui de concevoir les objets qui nous entourent ».

Elle est l’auteur d’Andrée Putman, ambassadrice du style (Skira Flammarion, 2010), de Marc Held, 50 ans de design, 2014, Olivier Gagnère, 2015, parus aux Éditions Norma.