Monograph dedicated to the famous designer's early work.
After presenting Martin Szekely's early work in a two-part exhibition (2020-2021, then 2022), Rémi Gerbeau and Jean-Philippe Mercier are releasing a book displaying these creations—"dedicated or attentioned furniture" ["meubles attentionnés" in French]—through his first major commissions.
Complemented by a sensitive iconography of exhibition views by photographer Florent Tanet, this two-part book reveals the already distinctive lines of the internationally-renowned designer, and his commitment to experimenting with new technologies in everyday objects, that have attracted the expert eye of major clients.
Paris-based Martin Szekely (*1956) is one of the most acclaimed designers of his generation, working simultaneously for the industry—with international companies such as Nestlé, Heineken, and Hermès—on private commissions, and on limited-production creations. Since the beginning of the 1980s, his work has developed as a "return to the source" of furniture, deploying an aesthetic drawn from the reduction of gestures and attention to materials, rather than through a form of minimalism, with which it is often associated. Combining cutting-edge technology with conceptual simplicity, he uses materials such as concrete and wood, cork and marble.
