Andrée Putman & Christopher Makos

French designer Andrée Putman (1925 – 2013), who designed the Morgan Hotel, the interiors of the French Concord among many others, designed her first mannequin, for Barneys, with Ralph Pucci in 1985. “Olympia Goddess” was so successful that she went on to design the “Husband” and “Mistress” mannequins, the start of a long relationship with Ralph Pucci, who, in 1990, was asked to exclusively represent her Ecart International line in the United States, the beginning of the company’s furniture business. In 2000, Putman created Six Easy Pieces, produced under license in the PUCCI workshops. She passed away in 2013 and her legacy and Studio Putman continues today, helmed by her daughter Olivia.

Christopher Makos is a renowned American artist, photographer and author. In the 1970s and 80s, he was a prominent figure in the New York downtown art scene where he befriended and then created raw, indelible portraits of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Salvador Dali, Halston, Patti Smith and Mick Jagger. Born in 1948 in Lowell, MA, he grew up in California and went on to study architecture in Paris, briefly working as an apprentice for Man Ray. His photographs have been exhibited in more than 100 museums and galleries including the Guggenheim Bilbao, Tate Modern in London, Whitney Museum of Art in New York, and in 2020 in the Brooklyn Museum’s “Studio 54” show.