Roger Tallon

Executed in 1964.

Galerie Jousse-Seguin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the current owner in 1996

France, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Roger Tallon itinéraire d'un designer industriel, 20 October 1993 - 20 February, 1994, pp. 96 and 99, similar example exhibited

Patrick Favardin, Guy Bloch-Champfort, Les Décorateurs des années 60-70, Norma Editions, Paris, 2007, similar example illustrated, pp. 179 and 183 
Matthias Jousse, Roger Tallon, Paris, 2012, similar example illustrated, pp.71-72, 77-80 

This work is in very good condition overall. There are light stains of adhesive tapes, minor scratches and tarnishing across the surface of the work, only visible under close examination.
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Roger Tallon is a French engineer and designer whose prolific creations deeply impacted the post-war industrial landscape in France. Tallon’s driving thought was for design dedicated to the improvement of objects for the greater good of society. His views were close to those taught at the European Bauhaus school which promoted an aesthetic functional utilitarianism. A professor of design since 1957, he was a founding member of the design department at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1963.

Camera, French train TGV and Eurostar, Salomon ski shoes, Casio and Lip watches, seats, we are still surrounded by Tallon's objects. They were revolutionaries at the time, like the first portable television he created for Thomson in 1966. One of his signature objects is the spiral staircase M400, designed in 1964, of which some examples are housed in the collections of museum, such as the MoMA in New York.