Curator and scenographer
Nestor Perkal
The aim here is to pay tribute to an extraordinary personality, Raymond Guidot (1934-2021), who was an engineer, artist, designer, teacher and design historian. Exceptional access to his personal archives has thrown light on this thinking constantly on the move.
Raymond Guidot’s career began with Roger Tallon at the TECHNÈS design agency, where he tackled the demands of industrial design. But it was at the Centre de Création Industrielle (CCI), founded in 1969 by François Mathey and François Barré, that he conducted a critical reflection on objects and how they relate to society through numerous outstanding exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou.
Raymond Guidot made his mark on the teaching of design from 1969 onwards, at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Ensad), then at ENSCI – Les Ateliers and the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, among others. He trained many students and shared an open view of the discipline through a major book, Histoire du design, 1940-1990. This book places design in a wider perspective, beyond aesthetics, anchoring it in political, social and intellectual contexts.
The exhibition, which addresses the issue of design archives as a resource, presents a previously unseen corpus of drawings, photographs, manuscripts, mock-ups and prototypes.
Nestor Perkal
Originally from Buenos Aires, Nestor Perkal is a designer, interior designer, scenographer and exhibition curator. With his keen interest in craft techniques, he has developed a singular material and colour-based approach to form.
In the 1980s, he opened
his own gallery in Paris and introduced Memphis Milano to the French public. Nestor Perkal was art director of the Algorithme silverware collection, then Director of the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts du Feu et de la Terre (CRAFT) in Limoges – where he invited artists, designers and architects to take part in producing ceramics – and since 2008, he has been working with Italian firm Oscarmaschera on leather objects. He created the Miroirs collection at the Centre National de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts Plastiques (CIRVA) in Marseille. His monograph, published in 2022 by Éditions Norma, accompanied an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design in Bordeaux.
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