Pierre Charpin

Pierre Charpin was born in 1962 in SaintMandé (near Paris) and graduated from the BeauxArts de Bourges in 1984. Since the early 1990s he has devoted himself to designing furniture and objects.
In 1990 his first solo exhibition was held at the Galerie Perkal (Paris) where he presented his research into the possibility of anthropomorphic furniture, and a series of silver tableware objects, manufactured in 1988 by Algorythme. In 1993 he developed his Stackable Chair project thanks to a grant from the FIACRE [French Minister of Culture]. In 1995 he was given the Carte blanche of the VIA (Valorisation Innovation dans l'Ameublement). He designed several seating projects for La Collection tropicale (La Maison du meuble créole, La Réunion) in 1996. That same year he participated in and was responsible for curating the exhibition Assembled in Ivry at the CREDAC (Centre d'art contemporain dIvrysurSeine). In 1997 he participated in the first Design Biennial in SaintÉtienne, in which he attracted attention with Vroom, his research into the car as an object, resulting from a workshop with students from the BeauxArts de SaintÉtienne.