Geneviève Dangles & Christian Defrance

They met while studying at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in 1946, and became the emblematic couple of this generation of designers. They did their apprenticeships at André Arbus and Marcel Gascoin. Geneviève Dangles and Christian Defrance are known for their furniture lines for children, produced by ABC and more importantly for their range of beautiful chairs produced by Burov, from 1955. Geneviève Dangles wrote many articles, reviews and analyses about different interior design issues for Maison Française magazine. Still today, they represent an excellent source of information. While working at the Marcel Gascoin agency, in 1950 she founded Groupe IV at Charron with Alain Richard, René Jean Caillette and Joseph André Motte. The couple opened their agency in 1953 and worked on a large number of interior design projects.

Importants projects :
Primary schools in Sedan and Annecy -1954
U.A.T. (airline) head office in Paris, offices in Le Bourget and Dakar
Interior design of planes for the airline Sud Aviation – 1960
Interior design of caravelle planes – Portugal – 1962