Patrick Seguin is a French gallery owner specialised in French architect-designed furniture of the 20th century, and founder of Galerie Patrick Seguin. In recognition of his work, Patrick Seguin was named ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French Ministry of Culture in March 2017. He is also a member of the Compagnie Nationale des Experts and of the Syndicat National des Antiquaires.
Biography
Patrick Seguin, born 29 January 1954 in Montpellier (France), is the son of Colette Seguin. He is married to Laurence Bergerot, with whom he has a daughter, Pauline (born 1990). Before specialising in design in 1989, Patrick Seguin worked in the hospitality business. In 1989 he founded the Jousse Seguin gallery with Philippe Jousse on Rue de Charonne in Paris’ 11th arrondissement. Then in 2000 he opened his eponymous gallery on Rue des Taillandiers in a former warehouse, renovated by Jean Nouvel. In recognition of his work, Patrick Seguin was named ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French Ministry of Culture in March 2017. The decoration was awarded at the Picasso Museum by Jack Lang, former Minister of Culture, at the same time as that of Yusaku Maezawa.
Patrick and Laurence Seguin’s private collection of contemporary art, design and architecture by Jean Prouvé, has been the subject of several exhibitions, including ‘A Passion for Jean Prouvé’ at the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Turin (Italy) in 2013, and ‘Jean Prouvé, l’âme du Métal’ at the Château La Coste (Bouches du Rhône, France) in 2019.
Patrick Seguin has organised numerous international exhibitions, including ‘Furniture and Architecture by Jean Prouvé’, Sonnabend Gallery (New York 2003); ‘Charlotte Perriand – Jean Prouvé, 20th century architecture and furniture’, Gagosian Gallery (Los Angeles 2004); ‘Le Corbusier/Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh, India, 1952–56’, Sonnabend Gallery (New York 2006); ‘Jean Royère’, Sonnabend Gallery (New York 2008); ‘Calder I Prouvé’, Gagosian Gallery (Paris – Le Bourget 2013); ‘Jean Nouvel Triptyques’, Gagosian Gallery (London 2014); ‘Chamberlain I Prouvé’, Gagosian Gallery (New York 2015); ‘Jean Prouvé: the Constructor’, French Embassy in Tokyo (Tokyo 2016), ‘Jean Prouvé : Architect for Better Days’, Fondation Luma (Arles, France 2017–18), ‘Jean Prouvé : Constructive Imagination' at the MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo in 2022.
Patrick Seguin has also collaborated on numerous institutional exhibitions, including with the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Venice Biennale of Architecture (Venice 2000 and 2014), the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Nancy, France 2005 and 2012), MoMa (New York 2008), the Milan Triennale (Milan 2015), the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris 2017), the Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris 2019) and the Design Museum (London 2021). Since 2002, Patrick Seguin organises ‘carte blanche’ exhibitions during Paris’s annual FIAC art fair, inviting international contemporary art galleries to exhibit in his Paris gallery. Galleries invited to date: Jablonka Galerie (2002), Hauser & Wirth (2006), Gagosian Gallery (2008), Eva Presenhuber (2009), Sadie Coles HQ (2010), Galeria Massimo de Carlo (2011), Paula Cooper (2012), Kurimanzutto (2014), Luhring Augustine (2015), Karma (2016), David Kordansky (2018), Campoli Presti (London 2018), Ivor Braka (London, 2018), Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (2019).
Galerie Patrick Seguin
Presentation
Galerie Patrick Seguin is in the Bastille district in Paris, in a space designed by Jean Nouvel (Pritzker Prize 2008). The gallery shows works by Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier and Jean Royère, and owns the most complete collection of furniture and demountable architecture by Jean Prouvé (24 houses). Galerie Patrick Seguin has also developed an important publishing activity, producing books to accompany its exhibitions; works include a 2-volume monograph on Jean Prouvé (750 pages), a series of three 5-volume box-sets on Jean Prouvé’s demountable architecture, a 2-volume monograph on Jean Royère (650 pages), a book on Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret’s architectural project for the town of Chandigarh and its furniture.
Collaborations
Jean Nouvel: Patrick Seguin has worked with Jean Nouvel on contemporary adaptations of Jean Prouvé demountable houses, notably the Ferembal house and the Bouqueval schoolhouse.
Fashion: Close to numerous personalities from the worlds of art and fashion, Patrick Seguin has worked with designer Azzedine Alaïa, as well as with The Row (Ashley Olsen et Mary-Kate Olsen), Virgil Abloh, APC and Yves Saint Laurent, among others.