Paulin, Paulin, Paulin

Many works by the brilliant French furniture and interior designer Pierre Paulin have never been seen. Some pieces were designed but never made; others were prototyped but not produced, while still others were one-off special commissions.Paulin, Paulin, Paulin, founded by the Paulin family in 2008, produces luxurious limited editions of missing pieces from his fluid puzzle of forms. His son, Benjamin Paulin recently curated an exhibition at Galerie Perrotin in Paris, creating a visual dialogue between Paulin and contemporary art. That makes perfect sense. As the French poet and explorer Alain Gheerbrant wrote, for Pierre Paulin, designing was a process of “uncovering the lines of force, the lines of life between objects, the lines that animated our surroundings, [that] linked objects to one another and us to them, until the whole became a living reality.” photography by OLIVIER ZAHM Exhibition views from “Paulin, Paulin, Paulin,” Galerie Perrotin, Paris, 2015 All…