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Overview & Mission<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/a>
The Founders<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/a>
Publications<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\nGalerie kreo is recognized as one of the most influential furniture galleries on the international scene.<\/p><\/div>

The gallery defines itself as a \"research laboratory\" dedicated to the production of contemporary pieces in limited editions, created exclusively for the gallery, by the greatest contemporary designers, from Virgil Abloh, to Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Pierre Charpin, Front, Naoto Fukasawa, Jaime Hayon, Konstantin Grcic, Hella Jongerius, Alessandro Mendini, Jasper Morrison, Marc Newson, or Studio Wieki Somers.
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\nThe works of these designers reside in the most important private and public collections around the world, from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to the Centre Pompidou, Paris, to the V&A, London, to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, etc.<\/p>\n

In parallel with the contemporary production, the gallery also presents a selection of exceptional French and Italian 20th century lighting.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong>: opening of Galerie kreo rue Louise Weiss, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris
\n2000<\/strong>: the gallery moves to a neighboring street, 22 rue Duchefdelaville in the 13th arrondissement of Paris
\n2008<\/strong>: the gallery moves to 31, rue Dauphine, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris
\n2014<\/strong>: opening of a gallery in London, in the heart of Mayfair
\n2019<\/strong>: the gallery celebrates its 20th anniversary<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The Founders<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Cl\u00e9mence and Didier Krzentowski founded Galerie kreo in 1999.<\/p>\n

Before opening the gallery, Cl\u00e9mence and Didier both worked in the sports business. For several years, Didier supported the family company KILLY \u2013 a renowned ski apparel company. Meanwhile, Cl\u00e9mence was on the Organizing Committee of the Winter Olympic Games of Albertville, 1992. There, she became Director of the Torch Relay, asking French designer Philippe Stark to design the Olympic torch.
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\nCl\u00e9mence and Didier opened kreo as an agency first, working on industrial projects with Ronan Bouroullec, Fran\u00e7ois Bauchet, Marc Newson, Pierre Charpin etc. A few years later, they decided to open a gallery space in the 13th arrondissement in Paris.
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\nIn May 1999, their first show 'Furniture & Objects (1960-2000)' opened. Immediately, the gallery distinguished itself by showing extremely contemporary design alongside exceptional modern design.<\/p>\n

Previous experience gave Cl\u00e9mence and Didier the taste for exhibiting design and art together, notably inspiring them to collaborate with galleries and institutions such as Emmanuel Perrotin (in 1996 and 1998), the Purple Gallery (1999), and the Fondation Cartier for the exhibition Fabulation by Radi Designers in 1999. In 1995, part of Cl\u00e9mence and Didier's art collection was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris on the occasion of Suzanne Pag\u00e9's thematic exhibition 'Passions Priv\u00e9es'.<\/p>\n

Didier is an expert in Design and Contemporary Art, member of the CNE (Compagnie nationale des experts), and Assessor of the Conciliation and Customs Expertise Commission.
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\nCl\u00e9mence and Didier are both Officers of the French Order of the \u2018Arts & Lettres\u2019 (Arts and Letters),\u00a0and have been included in the 50 most influential French people in the world list by Vanity Fair.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>

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