Sinopsis

This publication is the story of one of the last home design projects of Andrée Putman (1925–2013), an apartment in the Basque city of San Sebastián. Plans, original designs, and pictures reveal how the midcentury house remains both contemporary and atemporal today. Abandoning her initial plan of a musical career, from the 1950s onwards, Putman worked as a journalist and designer for the magazines ‘Elle’ and ‘l'Oeil. From the 1980s onwards, the Parisian developed numerous projects in interior design, rehabilitation, as well as the conversion of spaces into cultural sites. Her ECART study office resurrected works by forgotten creative talents from the 1930s.

Esta publicación, editada This Side Up, por iniciativa de Gabriel Calparsoro y Jose Gorritxo «The Story of a Singular Project. Andrée Putman in San Sebastián», contiene los dibujos para el que sería uno de sus últimos proyectos, un apartamento contemporáneo y a la vez atemporal en la ciudad de San Sebastián (País Vasco, España). La publicación incluye los planos preparatorios originales diseñados por Putman, así como fotografías de Henry Bourne y Antonio Terrón del proyecto terminado y textos de Gabriel Calpasoro, Jose Gorrtixo, Enric Pastor y Olivia Putman.