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Le designer Marc Berthier vient de mourir \u00e0 87\u00a0ans. Il \u00e9tait internationalement reconnu comme le h\u00e9raut de la l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9 et de la sobri\u00e9t\u00e9. \u00ab\u00a0J\u2019aime bien ce qui est structur\u00e9, ce qui fonctionne, <\/i>disait-il. Pourtant, ce n\u2019est pas la fonction qui d\u00e9finit la forme, mais l\u2019harmonie. Je recherche les proportions, l\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9gance et la s\u00e9duction. Tout le monde y a droit.\u00a0\u00bb<\/i><\/span><\/h1>\n

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N\u00e9 en\u00a01935, Marc Berthier fait ses \u00e9tudes \u00e0 l\u2019Ensad, \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure des arts d\u00e9coratifs, d\u2019o\u00f9 il sort en\u00a01959. Mais il s\u2019int\u00e9resse davantage \u00e0 l\u2019architecture qu\u2019aux objets. Un stage en Italie chez le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre architecte et designer Gio Ponti<\/a> (1891-1979) lui r\u00e9v\u00e8le la richesse de la culture italienne du design. De l\u2019autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 des Alpes, cr\u00e9ateurs et industriels osent alors prendre le risque d\u2019innover, contrairement \u00e0 la France o\u00f9 \u00ab\u00a0discuter avec les patrons \u00e9tait atterrant\u00a0\u00bb<\/i>.<\/span><\/h1>\n

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En\u00a01967, Marc Berthier est embauch\u00e9 par les Galeries Lafayette pour bousculer le conservatisme ambiant. Il organise aussit\u00f4t l\u2019exposition \u00ab\u00a0Domus, formes italiennes\u00a0\u00bb. Une r\u00e9v\u00e9lation\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Le grand public a d\u00e9couvert une autre fa\u00e7on de vivre, une autre esth\u00e9tique, une inventivit\u00e9 nouvelle. \u00c7a touchait \u00e0 tout\u00a0: les arts de la table, les \u00e9clairages\u2026 Et petit \u00e0 petit, j\u2019ai cr\u00e9\u00e9 un bureau de design int\u00e9gr\u00e9 aux Galeries Lafayette, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ma femme, Marie-Laure, qui dirigeait le bureau de style. Le r\u00f4le de ce service \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s important, puisqu\u2019il cr\u00e9ait des collections de pr\u00eat-\u00e0-porter pour le magasin. J\u2019ai essay\u00e9 de faire le m\u00eame travail pour la maison, ce qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s bien re\u00e7u par le grand public. En peu de temps, le mobilier contemporain est pass\u00e9 de 5\u00a0% des propositions \u00e0 la client\u00e8le \u00e0 50\u00a0%.\u00a0\u00bb<\/i><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Sous l\u2019influence de sa femme, Marc Berthier ose la couleur. Il commence par des meubles pour enfants, puis passe aux adultes, avec une table basse en plastique. \u00ab\u00a0Nous l\u2019avons propos\u00e9e \u00e0 des fabricants de meubles, mais c\u2019\u00e9taient des techniques qu\u2019ils ne connaissaient pas, des approches qui leur paraissaient aberrantes. Je l\u2019ai donc fait fabriquer par un chantier naval qui construisait de petites embarcations en plastique. \u00a0\u00bb<\/i> Suit un bureau aux lignes nettes, Ozoo,<\/i> en fibre de verre et polyester moul\u00e9 d\u2019une seule pi\u00e8ce, vendu par les Galeries Lafayette puis par Roche Bobois, qui l\u2019a r\u00e9cemment r\u00e9\u00e9dit\u00e9. Marc Berthier imagine aussi un syst\u00e8me de rangements modulaires carr\u00e9s nomm\u00e9 Ruche, <\/i>distribu\u00e9 par Prisunic<\/a> \u00e0 partir de\u00a01968. Plus d\u2019un million de modules seront fabriqu\u00e9s.<\/span><\/h1>\n

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En\u00a01975, Marc Berthier remporte le concours d\u2019un mobilier d\u00e9montable pour enfants qui sera install\u00e9 deux ans plus tard dans le Centre Pompidou. Dix ans plus tard, le designer devient enseignant \u00e0 l\u2019ENSCI (\u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de cr\u00e9ation industrielle), o\u00f9 il forme toute une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, dont Matali Crasset. Le magazine am\u00e9ricain Time<\/i> le consacre cr\u00e9ateur de l\u2019an\u00a02000.<\/span><\/h1>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Il commence par des meubles pour enfants, puis passe aux adultes, avec une table basse en plastique. \u00ab\u00a0Nous l\u2019avons propos\u00e9e \u00e0 des fabricants de meubles, mais c\u2019\u00e9taient des techniques qu\u2019ils ne connaissaient pas, des approches qui leur paraissaient aberrantes. Je l\u2019ai donc fait fabriquer par un chantier naval qui construisait de petites embarcations en plastique. \u00a0\u00bb Suit un bureau aux lignes nettes, Ozoo, en fibre de verre et polyester moul\u00e9 d\u2019une seule pi\u00e8ce, vendu par les Galeries Lafayette puis par Roche Bobois, qui l\u2019a r\u00e9cemment r\u00e9\u00e9dit\u00e9. Marc Berthier imagine aussi un syst\u00e8me de rangements modulaires carr\u00e9s nomm\u00e9 Ruche, distribu\u00e9 par Prisunic \u00e0 partir de\u00a01968. Plus d\u2019un million de modules seront fabriqu\u00e9s.En\u00a01975, Marc Berthier remporte le concours d\u2019un mobilier d\u00e9montable pour enfants qui sera install\u00e9 deux ans plus tard dans le Centre Pompidou flambant neuf. Dix ans plus tard, le designer devient enseignant \u00e0 l\u2019ENSCI (\u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de cr\u00e9ation industrielle), o\u00f9 il forme toute une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, dont Matali Crasset. Le magazine am\u00e9ricain Time le consacre cr\u00e9ateur de l\u2019an\u00a02000 en mettant en couverture sa radio Lexon Tykho, recouverte de silicone pour l\u2019\u00e9couter en prenant son bain. \u00c0 la m\u00eame \u00e9poque, avec sa fille \u00c9lise et deux \u00e9tudiants de l\u2019ENSCI, Pierre Garner et Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Lintz, Marc Berthier ouvre l\u2019agence EliumStudio, toujours en activit\u00e9. L\u2019\u00e9quipe y con\u00e7oit de nombreux objets du quotidien, dont la premi\u00e8re bouilloire \u00e9lectrique en c\u00e9ramique. 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He was internationally renowned as a champion of lightness and simplicity. \u00abI like things that are structured, things that work,\u00bb he said. \u00abYet, it's not function that defines form, but harmony. I seek proportion, elegance, and allure. Everyone has a right to that.\u00bb Born in 1935, Marc Berthier grew up in the Paris region with ten siblings. \u00abI come from a family of left-wing Catholics, but that's okay, you can make it! A socially conscious left, focused on education, on progressive schools.\u00bb He studied at the ENSAD (\u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure des arts d\u00e9coratifs), graduating in 1959. But he was more interested in architecture than in objects. An internship in Italy with the renowned architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) revealed to him the richness of Italian design culture. On the other side of the Alps, designers and manufacturers dared to take the risk of innovating, unlike in France where "talking to bosses was appalling." In 1967, Marc Berthier was hired by Galeries Lafayette to shake up the prevailing conservatism. "At Galeries Lafayette, women weren't allowed to wear trousers. And I was the only man not wearing a tie." He immediately organized the exhibition "Domus, Italian Forms." It was a revelation: "The general public discovered another way of life, another aesthetic, a new inventiveness." It touched on everything: tableware, lighting\u2026 And little by little, I created an in-house design office at Galeries Lafayette, thanks to my wife, Marie-Laure, who headed the style department. This department played a crucial role, as it created ready-to-wear collections for the store. I tried to do the same work for the home, which was very well received by the public. In a short time, contemporary furniture went from representing 5% of the offerings to customers to 50%. Under his wife's influence, Marc Berthier embraced color. He started with children's furniture, then moved on to adult furniture, with a plastic coffee table. \u00abWe offered it to furniture manufacturers, but they were unfamiliar with the techniques, approaches that seemed absurd to them. So I had it made by a shipyard that built small plastic boats.\u00bb Next came the Ozoo desk, with its clean lines, made of fiberglass and molded polyester in a single piece, sold by Galeries Lafayette and later by Roche Bobois, which recently reissued it. Marc Berthier also designed a system of modular square storage units called Ruche, distributed by Prisunic from 1968. More than a million modules were manufactured. In 1975, Marc Berthier won a competition for demountable children's furniture, which was installed two years later in the brand-new Centre Pompidou. Ten years later, the designer became a professor at ENSCI (\u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de cr\u00e9ation industrielle), where he trained an entire generation, including Matali Crasset. The American magazine Time named him the designer of the year 2000, featuring his Lexon Tykho radio, covered in silicone so it could be listened to in the bath, on its cover. Around the same time, Marc Berthier, along with his daughter \u00c9lise and two students from ENSCI (National School of Industrial Creation), Pierre Garner and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Lintz, opened the EliumStudio agency, which is still in operation today. The team designed numerous everyday objects, including the first ceramic electric kettle. Whether it was a fan, a folding chair, or an iron, the designer with the white mane consistently applied his credo: "To put high standards and intelligence at the service of the greatest number." 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Une r\u00e9v\u00e9lation\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Le grand public a d\u00e9couvert une autre fa\u00e7on de vivre, une autre esth\u00e9tique, une inventivit\u00e9 nouvelle. \u00c7a touchait \u00e0 tout\u00a0: les arts de la table, les \u00e9clairages\u2026 Et petit \u00e0 petit, j\u2019ai cr\u00e9\u00e9 un bureau de design int\u00e9gr\u00e9 aux Galeries Lafayette, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ma femme, Marie-Laure, qui dirigeait le bureau de style. Le r\u00f4le de ce service \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s important, puisqu\u2019il cr\u00e9ait des collections de pr\u00eat-\u00e0-porter pour le magasin. J\u2019ai essay\u00e9 de faire le m\u00eame travail pour la maison, ce qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s bien re\u00e7u par le grand public. En peu de temps, le mobilier contemporain est pass\u00e9 de 5\u00a0% des propositions \u00e0 la client\u00e8le \u00e0 50\u00a0%.\u00a0\u00bbSous l\u2019influence de sa femme, Marc Berthier ose la couleur. Il commence par des meubles pour enfants, puis passe aux adultes, avec une table basse en plastique. \u00ab\u00a0Nous l\u2019avons propos\u00e9e \u00e0 des fabricants de meubles, mais c\u2019\u00e9taient des techniques qu\u2019ils ne connaissaient pas, des approches qui leur paraissaient aberrantes. Je l\u2019ai donc fait fabriquer par un chantier naval qui construisait de petites embarcations en plastique. \u00a0\u00bb Suit un bureau aux lignes nettes, Ozoo, en fibre de verre et polyester moul\u00e9 d\u2019une seule pi\u00e8ce, vendu par les Galeries Lafayette puis par Roche Bobois, qui l\u2019a r\u00e9cemment r\u00e9\u00e9dit\u00e9. Marc Berthier imagine aussi un syst\u00e8me de rangements modulaires carr\u00e9s nomm\u00e9 Ruche, distribu\u00e9 par Prisunic \u00e0 partir de\u00a01968. Plus d\u2019un million de modules seront fabriqu\u00e9s.En\u00a01975, Marc Berthier remporte le concours d\u2019un mobilier d\u00e9montable pour enfants qui sera install\u00e9 deux ans plus tard dans le Centre Pompidou flambant neuf. Dix ans plus tard, le designer devient enseignant \u00e0 l\u2019ENSCI (\u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de cr\u00e9ation industrielle), o\u00f9 il forme toute une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, dont Matali Crasset. Le magazine am\u00e9ricain Time le consacre cr\u00e9ateur de l\u2019an\u00a02000 en mettant en couverture sa radio Lexon Tykho, recouverte de silicone pour l\u2019\u00e9couter en prenant son bain. \u00c0 la m\u00eame \u00e9poque, avec sa fille \u00c9lise et deux \u00e9tudiants de l\u2019ENSCI, Pierre Garner et Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Lintz, Marc Berthier ouvre l\u2019agence EliumStudio, toujours en activit\u00e9. L\u2019\u00e9quipe y con\u00e7oit de nombreux objets du quotidien, dont la premi\u00e8re bouilloire \u00e9lectrique en c\u00e9ramique. Qu\u2019il s\u2019agisse d\u2019un ventilateur, d\u2019une chaise pliante ou d\u2019un fer \u00e0 repasser, le designer \u00e0 la crini\u00e8re blanche aura appliqu\u00e9 avec constance son credo\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Mettre l\u2019exigence et l\u2019intelligence au service du plus grand nombre.\u00a0\u00bb Par Xavier de Jarcy","og_url":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/en\/2022\/11\/03\/marc-berthier\/","og_site_name":"DIZAGN","article_published_time":"2022-11-02T23:07:16+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-11-23T23:09:51+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1309,"height":1328,"url":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/f27b0c7_1667927705450-aet8550-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Thibault Lannuzel","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Thibault Lannuzel","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/2022\/11\/03\/marc-berthier\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/2022\/11\/03\/marc-berthier\/"},"author":{"name":"Thibault Lannuzel","@id":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/#\/schema\/person\/a74342303a86d50db0d9567a67f9a5df"},"headline":"MARC BERTHIER (1935-2022)","datePublished":"2022-11-02T23:07:16+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-23T23:09:51+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/2022\/11\/03\/marc-berthier\/"},"wordCount":703,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/2022\/11\/03\/marc-berthier\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/f27b0c7_1667927705450-aet8550-1.jpg","articleSection":["Portrait"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/2022\/11\/03\/marc-berthier\/","url":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/2022\/11\/03\/marc-berthier\/","name":"MARC BERTHIER (1935-2022) - DIZAGN","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/2022\/11\/03\/marc-berthier\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/2022\/11\/03\/marc-berthier\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/dizagn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/f27b0c7_1667927705450-aet8550-1.jpg","datePublished":"2022-11-02T23:07:16+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-23T23:09:51+00:00","description":"Intelligent design, elegance, allure\u2026 In a career spanning over fifty years, designer Marc Berthier, who recently passed away at the age of 87, consistently applied his principles, from children's furniture to electric kettles. He was internationally renowned as a champion of lightness and simplicity. \u00abI like things that are structured, things that work,\u00bb he said. \u00abYet, it's not function that defines form, but harmony. I seek proportion, elegance, and allure. Everyone has a right to that.\u00bb Born in 1935, Marc Berthier grew up in the Paris region with ten siblings. \u00abI come from a family of left-wing Catholics, but that's okay, you can make it! A socially conscious left, focused on education, on progressive schools.\u00bb He studied at the ENSAD (\u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure des arts d\u00e9coratifs), graduating in 1959. But he was more interested in architecture than in objects. An internship in Italy with the renowned architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) revealed to him the richness of Italian design culture. On the other side of the Alps, designers and manufacturers dared to take the risk of innovating, unlike in France where "talking to bosses was appalling." In 1967, Marc Berthier was hired by Galeries Lafayette to shake up the prevailing conservatism. "At Galeries Lafayette, women weren't allowed to wear trousers. And I was the only man not wearing a tie." He immediately organized the exhibition "Domus, Italian Forms." It was a revelation: "The general public discovered another way of life, another aesthetic, a new inventiveness." It touched on everything: tableware, lighting\u2026 And little by little, I created an in-house design office at Galeries Lafayette, thanks to my wife, Marie-Laure, who headed the style department. This department played a crucial role, as it created ready-to-wear collections for the store. I tried to do the same work for the home, which was very well received by the public. In a short time, contemporary furniture went from representing 5% of the offerings to customers to 50%. Under his wife's influence, Marc Berthier embraced color. He started with children's furniture, then moved on to adult furniture, with a plastic coffee table. \u00abWe offered it to furniture manufacturers, but they were unfamiliar with the techniques, approaches that seemed absurd to them. So I had it made by a shipyard that built small plastic boats.\u00bb Next came the Ozoo desk, with its clean lines, made of fiberglass and molded polyester in a single piece, sold by Galeries Lafayette and later by Roche Bobois, which recently reissued it. Marc Berthier also designed a system of modular square storage units called Ruche, distributed by Prisunic from 1968. More than a million modules were manufactured. In 1975, Marc Berthier won a competition for demountable children's furniture, which was installed two years later in the brand-new Centre Pompidou. Ten years later, the designer became a professor at ENSCI (\u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de cr\u00e9ation industrielle), where he trained an entire generation, including Matali Crasset. The American magazine Time named him the designer of the year 2000, featuring his Lexon Tykho radio, covered in silicone so it could be listened to in the bath, on its cover. Around the same time, Marc Berthier, along with his daughter \u00c9lise and two students from ENSCI (National School of Industrial Creation), Pierre Garner and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Lintz, opened the EliumStudio agency, which is still in operation today. The team designed numerous everyday objects, including the first ceramic electric kettle. Whether it was a fan, a folding chair, or an iron, the designer with the white mane consistently applied his credo: "To put high standards and intelligence at the service of the greatest number." 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