Marc Berthier
{{Short description|French designer and architect (1935–2022)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1935|08|04}}
| birth_place = Compiègne, France
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2022|11|03|1935|08|04}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| nationality = French
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| occupation = Designer
Architect
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| education = Beaux-Arts de Paris
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
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Marc Berthier (4 August 1935 – 3 November 2022) was a French designer and architect. His works have made their way into the permanent collections of museums in France and across the world, such as the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art. He was a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and received the Grand prix National de la Création Industrielle from the Ministry of Culture, succeeding Roger Tallon. He directed faculty at the École nationale supérieure de création industrielle from 1985 to 2000 in addition to his work alongside Dimitri Avgoustinos.
Berthier founded and directed the Archi Plan Studio and the Design Plan Studio from 1980 to 1990, and subsequently the eliumstudio from 2000 to 2020.
Biography
=Education=
Berthier studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris{{cite news |last=Léonforte|first=Pierre|date=9 January 2019|title=Marc Berthier, aventurier du plastic-design français|trans-title= |url=https://www.beauxarts.com/lifestyle/marc-berthier-aventurier-du-plastic-design-francais/|language=French|work=Beaux Arts Magazine|location= |access-date=6 November 2022}} and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (EnsAD),{{cite book |last=Froissart Pezone|first=Rossella|title=Chapitre VI. La dissolution de L'Art dans Tout et le " marasme " des arts décoratifs|year=2004 |trans-title= |url=https://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/8442|language=French|location= |publisher=CNRS Éditions|isbn=9782271062819}} from where he graduated in 1959. At EnsAD, he met the likes of Guy de Rougemont, Patrick Arlet,{{cite book |last1=Galazzi|first1=Enrico|last2=Verna|first2=Marisa|last3=Zanola|first3=Maria Teresa|date=2015|title=out le talent d'écrire ne consiste après tout que dans le choix des mots|trans-title= |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0351-0795-1/9|language=French|location= |publisher=Peter Lang|doi=10.3726/978-3-0351-0795-1/9 |isbn=9783035107951}} Jean Lagarrigue,{{cite journal |last=Filiod|first=Jean-Paul|date=2017|title=Faire ensemble. Enjeux du partage du travail éducatif en contexte d'éducation artistique|journal=Quaderni |issue=92 |pages=49–61 |trans-title= |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/quaderni.1037|language=French|publisher=Quademi|doi=10.4000/quaderni.1037 |access-date=6 November 2022}} Jean-Paul Goude, and Olivier Mourgue. He also met his wife, Marie-Laure Hermann, whom he married in 1959.
=1960s=
Berthier created Les Ruches in 1965, a system of modular melamine boxes accessorized with colored plastic boxes first distributed at the Galeries Lafayette, where his wife was a manager. It was produced in large part by DF 2000{{cite web|url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-esprit-2008-2-page-189.htm|title=Cormac McCarthy vu par les frères Coen|date=February 2008|work=Cairn.info|language=French}} and appeared in the Prisunic catalog in 1968 and later Roche Bobois.{{cite news |last=Massalovitch|first=Sophie|date=6 February 2020|title=La saga Roche Bobois : valeurs mobilières|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=Challenges|location= |access-date=}} It sold more than one million models and accessories throughout its time on the market.{{cite journal|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/888932782717|title=Figure 1. Per capita income growth has been slower than in most other major emerging economies|journal=OECD|doi=10.1787/888932782717 }}
=Plastic years=
During an era in which plastic products were swiftly on the rise, Berthier created the Ozoo furniture collection.{{cite news |last=Dowling|first=Elizabeth Meredith|date=2 June 2011|title=Beaux-Arts Institute of Design|trans-title= |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7002094027|language= |work=Grove Art Online|location= |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T2094027 |isbn=978-1-884446-05-4 |access-date=7 November 2022}} It featured a coffee table constructing by a boat manufacturing company in Normandy, distributed by Diffusion d'Ameublement Nordique and sold by Roche Bobois.{{cite news |last=Guicheteau|first=Margot|date=31 May 2018|title=50 ans de design et pas une ride|trans-title= |url=https://madame.lefigaro.fr/deco-design/50-ans-et-pas-une-ride-280518-148910|language=French|work=Le Figaro|location= |access-date=7 November 2022}} The Ozoo 600 and Ozoo 700 series are now on display at the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris. The minidesk was displayed at the Century of the Child : Growing by Design, 1900 – 2000 exhibition in 2012 at the Museum of Modern Art.{{cite web|url=https://rocketlulu.typepad.com/objets-vintage-curiosites/2013/10/growing-by-design-enfant-vintage-kids-chairs.html|title=Growing by Design|work=Rocket Lulu}} In 1968, he produced the exhibition Œil neuf sur la maison, a display which showed multifunctional containers which intended to go beyond their typical purpose.{{cite news |last=Michel|first=Edouard|date=February 1970|title=Marc Berthier ou le grand nombre|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=Créé|location= |access-date=}}
=1970s=
The oil crises of 1971 and 1973 drove up the price of plastic. This brought about the end of the "Chant du Styrène" and the Le Plastique pour le plastique exhibition at the Centre National d'Art Appliqué Contemporain.{{cite book |last=Saunier|first=Diane|date=2000|title=Pierre Perrigault, l'architecte du mobilier 1950 – 2000|trans-title= |url= |language=French|location= |publisher=Held et Berthier|isbn=}} Berthier subsequently began using different materials, such as metal and wood. In 1972, he developed Twenty Tube, a set of removable furniture in colored, lacquered metal tubing featuring bunk beds, a cantilever chair and desk, shelves, and a rolling table. The project was launched jointly with the {{ill|Union des groupements d'achats publics|fr}}, the {{ill|Centre de création industrielle|fr}}, and the Groupe interministériel d'Étude de mobilier scolaire.{{cite book |last=Rouard-Snowman|first=Margo|date=1988|title=Design français 1960-1990: trois décennies|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kTZQAAAAMAAJ|language=French|location= |publisher=Centre Georges Pompidou|isbn=9782858504732}} It was presented at the inauguration of the Centre Pompidou in 1977.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=August 1982|title=Arredi scolastici, design Marc Berthier et Daniel Pigeon|trans-title= |url= |language=Italian|work=Domus|location= |access-date=}}
In 1975, Berthier approached international design publishers, such as Knoll in the United States and {{ill|Magis (company)|it|Magis|lt=Magis}} in Italy. There, he proposed his Aviva collection, solid wood furniture created with only two small sections, with the collection's chair headlining the series.{{cite news |last=Fitoussi|first=Brigitte|date=1986|title=Design et Intérieur, Marc Berthier|trans-title= |url= |language=French|work=L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui|location= |access-date=}}
=1980s=
Berthier spent most of the 1980s with Magis, notably producing the Magis Chair, made primarily of steel.{{cite news |last=Lorelle|first=Véronique|date=9 November 2016|title=Le Design de Marc Berthier ou l'école de la légèreté|trans-title= |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/m-design-deco/article/2016/11/09/design-marc-berthier-l-ecole-de-la-legerete_5028210_4497702.html|language=French|work=Le Monde|location= |access-date=7 November 2022}} In 1984, he designed the Jackspot lamp alongside Guillaume Kuhlmann and manufactured by Holight France.
=1990s=
In 1997, Berthier produced the Tykho. It was made of elastomer and acid-colored watercolors and was rectangular in shape. It appeared on the 20 March 2000 edition of Time magazine under the title "The Rebirth of Design" and captioned "Rubber radio by Marc Berthier".{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20000320,00.html|title=The Rebirth of Design Mar. 20, 2000|magazine=Time}} He spoke with Le Monde about the radio's design.{{cite news |last=Lorelle|first=Véronique|date=11 May 2020|title=Un jour, un objet : Tykho|trans-title= |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/m-styles/article/2020/05/11/un-jour-un-objet-tykho_6039285_4497319.html|language=French|work=Le Monde|location= |access-date=7 November 2022}} Produced by Lexon France, it is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/4715|title=Marc Berthier. Tykho Radio. 1997|work=Museum of Modern Art}}
=2000s=
In 2002, Berthier and his daughter founded eliumstudio along with his former students, Pierre Garner and Fred Lintz.{{cite news |last=Fèvre|first=Anne-Marie|date=8 February 2002|title=Gonflés à l'eliumstudio|trans-title= |url=https://www.liberation.fr/guide/2002/02/08/gonfles-a-l-eliumstudio_393185/|language=French|work=Libération|location= |access-date=7 November 2022}}{{cite news |last=Vignal|first=Marion|date=20 April 2011|title=Fabriquez votre table d'appoint avec Elium Studio|trans-title= |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/styles/idees-deco/la-lecon-de-design-de-elium-studio_984872.html|language=French|work=L'Express|location= |access-date=7 November 2022}}
=Death=
Marc Berthier died in Paris on 3 November 2022, at the age of 87.{{cite news |last=de Jarcy|first=Xavier|date=4 November 2022|title=Disparition de Marc Berthier, designer de la légèreté|trans-title= |url=https://www.telerama.fr/sortir/disparition-de-marc-berthier-designer-de-la-legerete-7012815.php|language=French|work=Télérama|location= |access-date=7 November 2022}}
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