left: designer françois bauchetcenter: ‘liliploom’ chair, by françois bauchetright: bibliothèque ‘L et T,’ by françois bauchet for galerie kreo

 

françois bauchet, born in 1948 in montlucon, france, was awarded ‘créateur de l’annèe 2002’ at the 2002 salon du meuble in paris.

 

previous years’ winners include:michel cadestin, pascal mourgue, philippe starck, alain chauvel, martin szekely, jean nouvel, jean-michel wilmotte, sylvain dubuisson, garouste et bonetti, kristian gavoille, marc newson, christophe pillet, ron arad, chaix et morel, marc sadler, ross lovegrove, alberto meda, the radi designersand maarten van severen