Olivia Putman

Olivia Putman (born 1964) is a French designer, daughter to Andrée Putman and heir to her mother's design studio, Studio Putman. Her works range from interior architecture to scenography and design.

Biography Olivia Putman grew up in Paris with her mother, Andrée Putman, a designer, and her father Jacques Putman, an art collector, editor and critic. Through family acquaintances and her teenage nights at Le Palace, she got to meet the most eclectic figures of the artistic scene of those days, including Andy Warhol and Yves Saint-Laurent.

Career After graduating from high school, Olivia completed a bachelor's degree in art history in 1987, at the Paris-Sorbonne University. She then divided her time and workspace between Paris and New York. She became the agent of the Ivorian painter Ouattara Watts, and she befriended with Jean-Michel Basquiat, whom she counted among her friends until he died.

In 1988, for the first time, she becomes an exhibition curator. Thanks to her friend Leo Castelli, she exhibits pieces from Jasper Johns or Mario Merz in Paris.

Landscape architecture (1994-2006) In 1994, she created temporary gardens combining art and agriculture with Jean-Paul Ganem. At this stage, Olivia was an active artist and started studying landscape management.

In 1997, Olivia Putman started as a freelancer and flew to Japan to design her first private garden. Public acknowledgement of her talent only took a few years. Her work for Parfums Caron was awarded the Dream Garden Prize at the Garden Festival of Saint-Cloud in 2000 and she also designed a private garden for Marc Jacobs in Paris.

Studio Putman, from mother to daughter (since 2007) In 2007, Olivia Putman agrees to take the art direction of the Andrée Putman's agency, a long-standing desire of the founder. The Andrée Putman agency becomes "Studio Putman." Olivia Putman keeps a taste for challenging adventures that combine pleasure and innovation, and that articulate creative ideals with concrete reality.

Interior design 2007 - Morgans Hotel, New York 2009 - "The Rivage" hotel, Hong Kong 2011 - Public Works' headquarters on Champs-Elysées, Paris 2013 - Studio Putman won in collaboration with Lilian Allen and Mathias Klotz an international competition to design new VIP lounges for LATAM Airways. The first lounges opened in the airports of Buenos Aires and Bogota 2013 - Hotel Sofitel Arc de Triomphe, Paris 2014 - Hotel Can Faustino on the island of Menorca, Spain 2014 - VIP lounge for LATAM Airways in São Paulo, Brazil 2015 - VIP lounge, (biggest airport's lounge in South America), Santiago, Chile 2016 - Interior design for a 58 Meters motor yacht 2017 - Euromed Center, Marseille 2018 - Lagardère Headquarters, France 2018 - Villas for Hotel Christopher, Saint Barthélémy

Scenography 2009 - Scenography for the Madeleine Vionnet exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (Paris' Museum of Decorative Arts) 2009 - Scenography for the shows of Christophe (singer) at the Olympia, Paris. 2010 - Olivia Putman is, with Sebastien Grandin, curator of the exhibition "Andrée Putman, ambassador of style" at Paris City Hall (250,000 visitors) 2013 - Olivia Putman is the ambassador of French creation at the Ambiente Fair in Frankfurt. For this event, she designed spaces symbolizing the art of French living. 2013 - Exhibition "Le Temps des Collections" at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (Rouen's Museum of Fine Arts) 2014 - During the "French May" event in Hong Kong, Olivia Putman presents two exhibitions about Studio Putman in PMQ and in The Landmark (Hong Kong) 2011 - Collection "Inside Out" for Fermob 2011 - Olivia Putman becomes the Artistic Director of Lalique and creates the "Orgue" Collection 2011 - Collection "Belle Etoile" for 2012 - Fabric collection for Pierre Frey 2012 - "Jour de Fête" collection for Charles Paris 2013 - Olivia Putman gives her own interpretation of the Nina Ricci's « Air du Temps » perfume bottle 2013 - The "O" tap collection for THG 2013 - "Contrast" collection for Made.com 2013 - Creation of a cognac bottle and its box for Hine 2014 - « Time Flies » collection for the Ralph Pucci Gallery, New York 2014 - « Dialogues » furniture collection, for the "French May" festival, Hong-Kong 2015 - « Métamorphose » collection for THG, best design award for he "BD WEST" fair in Los Angeles 2018 - Outdoor furniture collection for Fiminco

Awards 2000 - "Jardin de Rêve" Prize (Dream garden Prize) at the "Festival des Jardins" of Saint-Cloud. Olivia Putman imagined a garden for the Parfums Caron

2009 - Olivia Putman wins the Nespresso contest

2012 - Olivia Putman wins the LATAM Airways contest et and creates VIP lounges in South America

2015 - Best Design Award for the THG collection at the "BD West" Fair, Los Angeles

Personal Olivia Putman has four children, Julien, Noé, Carl and Louis.