Biography

Marc Held (Author of the plastic Prisunic bed and the Culbuto armchair published by Knoll, Marc Held is a key designer of the 70s.
His rue de Seine gallery, L’Echoppe, symbolized a generation’s aspirations for lifestyle and living. From teak to all-plastic, from tall ships to Renault cars, from steel houses to vernacular architecture, from the salons de l’Élysée to IBM factories, the diversity of Marc Held’s work finds its unity in a constant humanistic preoccupation, and has largely contributed to the democratization of design.

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