{"id":13483,"date":"2021-06-24T00:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T23:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.galeriedowntown.com\/the-gallery\/francois-laffanour\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T10:09:07","slug":"francois-laffanour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.galeriedowntown.com\/en\/the-gallery\/francois-laffanour\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Laffanour"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"13483\" class=\"elementor elementor-13483 elementor-2893\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2025dfe elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2025dfe\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-366d1d9\" data-id=\"366d1d9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b0d92f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1b0d92f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Fran\u00e7ois Laffanour<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9083c7a elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"9083c7a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5e714d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a5e714d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Born in 1952 in El Biar, Fran\u00e7ois Laffanour is a gallery owner, antique dealer and art dealer, considered &#8220;a major figure in the design market&#8221;.<\/p><p>For 46 years, he has specialized in furniture by 20th- and 21st-century architects and designers, notably Charlotte Perriand, Serge Mouille, Jean Prouv\u00e9 and Le Corbusier.<\/p><p>In 1982, together with Mara Cremniter, he opened the Downtown gallery on rue de Seine in Paris, specializing in modern furniture, in particular furniture by twentieth-century architects such as Jean Prouv\u00e9, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Roy\u00e8re and Matthieu Mat\u00e9got, having begun acquiring them in the 1970s. In 1992, he continued to run the gallery on his own.\u00a0<\/p><p>Commenting on a Jean Prouv\u00e9 chair he bought in 1975, Fran\u00e7ois Laffanour says: &#8220;I bought things that other people didn&#8217;t want, but whose functional or aesthetic interest I perceived, even if I had no idea of their creator or rarity.<\/p><p>Since the 1980s, Fran\u00e7ois Laffanour has organized numerous exhibitions in his gallery devoted to the various architects and designers of the 50s, including Carlo Mollino, Gio Ponti, Ettore Sottsass, Gaetano Pesce and Alessandro Mendini. Continuing his research, he has also organized exhibitions on American architects such as Charles Eames, Georges Nelson, George Nakashima and Isamu Noguchi. More recently, he also organized an exhibition on Shaker furniture and furniture designed by Pierre Jeanneret for India.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-bc7f111\" data-id=\"bc7f111\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62f5c2f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"62f5c2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Always on the lookout for international opportunities, the gallery has also devoted exhibitions to Oscar Niemeyer, Jose Zanine Caldas and Luis Barragan, in an attempt to highlight the relationships and intentions that existed between all these great architects, whether European or American.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, he acquired the archives of the Steph Simon gallery, which published and sold designs by Jean Prouv\u00e9, Charlotte Perriand, Serge Mouille and Georges Jouve between 1956 and 1974, enabling him to trace and authenticate numerous pieces thanks to these documents. The gallery also has a Contemporary Design department, representing the work of Korean artist Choi Byung Hoon, Israeli designer Ron Arad, French designer Richard Texier and German designer Tom Fecht.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since 2007, Fran\u00e7ois Laffanour has been a &#8220;pillar of every fair&#8221; for international art and design, including the Biennale des antiquaires, TEFAF (Maastricht and New York), Design Miami and Design Miami\/Basel, PAD Paris and PAD London, and organizes exhibitions abroad (New York) and in Korea (Seoul).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois Laffanour is an Officier des Arts et des Lettres.<\/p>\n<p>Vice-President of the Compagnie Nationale des Experts.<\/p>\n<p>Former General Secretary of the Syndicat National des Antiquaires.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Member of the Board of Directors of the Mus\u00e9e des Arts D\u00e9coratifs.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0e4be3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" 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class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6df3b58 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6df3b58\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Fran\u00e7ois Laffanour, born in 1952, is a French gallery owner, antique dealer and art dealer, considered &#8220;a major figure in the design market&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He specializes in the furniture of architects and designers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including the works of Charlotte Perriand, Serge Mouille, Jean Prouv\u00e9 and Le Corbusier.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aebae95 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aebae95\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 1982, he and Mara Cremniter opened the Downtown gallery on rue de Seine in Paris, specializing in modern furniture, in particular 20th century architectural furniture, especially that of Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Prouv\u00e9 and Charlotte Perriand. According to L&#8217;Express, in the 1970s he acquired &#8220;entire lots of these [two] designers for almost nothing&#8221;, especially at Emma\u00fcs sales, but also &#8220;at the Cit\u00e9 Universitaire [and] in the administrations of the Congo or Mauritania&#8221;. 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