Biography

Born in 1942, Michel Cadestin is a French interior designer and architect. After graduating from the Ecole Boulle in 1961 and the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1964, he was quickly spotted by the Teda company which he joined in 1970.

In 1976, he won the tender to design the Centre Pompidou in Paris. For the Centre, he designed the Treillis chair series, published by Teda.

In 1983, he founded his own agency, Création Recherche, and became the first designer to be voted designer of the year. His work has won numerous awards. It is characterized by the pursuit of design that is functional, playful and evolutionary.

An enthusiast of modular, inflatable and collapsible furniture in the 70s, Michel Cadestin has always sought to create design for the greatest number, functional, playful and evolutionary, applying his research into mass production to the more human realm of the home.