Pierre Guariche

The abundant work of PIERRE GUARICHE (1926-1995) accompanies the Thirty Glorious, like the great administrative and societal changes of the years 1980. Trained by Marcel Gascoin, Guariche began in 1950 as independent set designer and creator. He has been designing for over ten years furniture suitable for housing reconstruction and production serial, relying on innovative publishers, such as Airborne, the gallery MAI, Steiner, Les Huchers-Minvielle then Meurop, or even Pierre Disderot for lighting fixtures. Revisiting useful forms in the light of new materials, it founded the Plastic Research Workshop (ARP) in 1954 with Michel Mortier and Joseph-André Motte, the first French collective of creators, which will last three years. From the 1960s onwards, he focused on interior architecture, where his mastery of space, materials and their implementation imposes it on numerous projects. He is participating in the Firminy project alongside Le Corbusier and collaborated with the architect Michel Bezançon on the creation of La Plagne. Called upon for many major government projects, he developed the prefecture and the general council of Essonne in Evry and the high court instance of Créteil. Based on unpublished archives, this work returns on a route rich in more than 200 developments, almost as many pieces of furniture and a series of remarkable lighting fixtures, now reissued by Sammode.