Born in 1925, Andrée Putman took her first steps as a stylist in 1958 for PRISUNIC, where she set out to make "beautiful things for nothing", all in the world of the home. In 1971, with Didier Grumback, she turned to textiles, revealing the talents of Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Issey Miyake, Claude Montana and Thierry Mugler. It wasn't until 1978, at the age of 53, that Andrée Putman truly launched into French interior architecture and design by founding her studio "Écart", which would quickly make her famous from New York to Hong Kong. She decorated hotels — Sheraton — boutiques — Balenciaga —, designed furniture for the Hôtel Matignon (the Prime Minister's residence), cutlery lines — Christofle — and luggage — Louis Vuitton… Through her work, Andrée Putman wanted to reconcile "rich" and "poor" materials. It was during this period that she created the RIVE GAUCHE chair for MAISON DRUCKER, perfectly matching her creative philosophy: beautiful, simple, sturdy, useful and steeped in history. Later, her daughter Olivia Putman, true to her mother's standards, would also create her own chair for MAISON DRUCKER: "RIVE DROITE".