Pierre Paulin is a french designer, was born in 1927 in Paris.
After a training of modelling and ceramic in Vallauris, Pierre Paulin studied the engraving and sculpting at a Stone-Cutter, then to Camondo School in Paris. After that he worked for Thonet for about 10 years, for whom he created the Chair 157 (1954). Later on he worked with Artifort in the Netherlands, who produces armchairs F 560 (1960) and Ribbon (1969).

At the beginning of the 60s, he opens his own Design Firm and began a successful collaboration with the talented and inventive artisans of the new atelier of research and creation from "le Mobilier National", which coincided with the renovation of the Denon wing of the Musee du Louvre, the renovation of the private apartments of the President Georges Pompidou at the Elysee and lastly the creation of furniture for the Presidential Office of François Mitterrand in 1983.

Although these prestigious commissions contributed to his renown, other designs, however, permitted the public to discover the comfort of modern living. These are the designs which we have decided to present at the gallery, a place that draws them closer to the sculptural works that in essence, they are. At once sculptural and rigorously functional, they're studied forms cradle the body in perfect harmony. A man of the future, Paulin scattered his path with poetic objects that were ahead of their time and whose rediscovery more than 30 years later inspire admiration.