Pierre Faucheux

Pierre Faucheux (born February 12, 1924, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, died December 16, 1999, in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French graphic designer and typographer.

Faucheux studied at the École Estienne under Robert Bonfils and began his career at Flammarion in 1942. After the Liberation of France, he worked with Edmond Charlot and became the artistic director of the Club français du livre in 1946, where he contributed to French book design. His layout of the Aphorisms by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1947) is considered one of his important works in graphic design.

In 1954, he joined the Club des libraires de France, continuing to work on various book designs. Faucheux also contributed to the magazine Art d'Aujourd'hui, founded by André Bloc and Edgard Pillet, and collaborated with Le Corbusier and the surrealist movement. In 1963, he founded the Atelier Pierre Faucheux, where he worked on numerous projects, including the graphic direction of Le Livre de Poche, creating well-known covers such as for Jacques Prévert's Paroles.

Faucheux also worked on notable projects for Jean-Jacques Pauvert's Libertés collection and designed the first edition of the Encyclopædia Universalis.

Publications

Faucheux, Pierre (1978). Écrire l'espace. Paris: Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-221-00075-7. Search this book on

Domingues, Brice; Dupeyrat, Jérôme; Guiral, Catherine (2011). L'écartelage ou l'écriture de l'espace d'après Pierre Faucheux. Paris: Éditions B42. ISBN 978-2-917855-39-3. Search this book on
Marquat, Marie-Christine (1995). Pierre Faucheux, le magicien du livre. Paris: Éditions du Cercle de la librairie. ISBN 2-7654-0603-0. Search this book on
Hollis, Richard (1997). Le graphisme au XXe siècle. Paris: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 2-87811-115-X. Search this book on
Wlassikoff, Michel (2021). Histoire du graphisme en France. Paris: Musée des arts décoratifs. ISBN 978-2-916914-85-5. Search this book on

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