Saturday, 12 June 2010

Marc Held - the architect

 

Marc Held is both architect and designer. The full range of this creative work is remarkable -everything from small spoons to entire factories, with houses, cars, ski outfits, porcelain and furniture in between. Although Marc’s studio was based in Paris for a long time, his work has been commissioned and sold all over the world.

A number of his creations are exhibited in Museums of contemporary art, and some of the rarer pieces -always supposing one is lucky one to find them- feature in Mayor public auctions.

Today, one of Marc Held’s main preoccupations is the relationship between traditional and modern architecture. Marc Held’s principal residence is now in Skopelos Island, which has become his second homeland.

Marc Held’s book "SKOPELOS, the landscapes and vernacular architecture of an Aegean island" was published in 3 languages; English, French and Greek. It is a hard cover book of 211 pages (size: 25cm x 25cm) and is available for sale on local shops and the Folklore Museum of Skopelos at € 42.