Richard Peduzzi
A set designer, author, architect, painter, and theater and opera set designer, Peduzzi loves Italy, the Renaissance and its capitals, the Quattrocento, Flemish painting, Paul Klee, Nicolas de Staël, and the gray landscapes of Albert Marquet’s paintings.
His sets have served as the backdrop for numerous theater and opera productions, notably for directors Patrice Chéreau—since 1968—and Luc Bondy.
After serving as director of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs from 1990 to 2002, he became director of the Académie de France in Rome in September 2002.
Richard Peduzzi also designed the sets for Patrice Chéreau’s films *La Chair de l’orchidée* (1975), *Judith Therpauve* (1978), *La Reine Margot* (1994), and *Intimité* (2001). The latter and *Judith Therpauve*, starring Simone Signoret, are his favorites.
He designed the architecture and interior layout of the Opera halls at the Musée d’Orsay and the history galleries at the Louvre Museum. He was responsible for the restoration and creation of the furnishings for the Musée de la Bibliothèque de l’Opéra Garnier.
He also designed the sets for Kurt Weill’s *The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny*, directed by Peter Zadek at the Salzburg Festival in 1997.
At the same time, he worked on numerous exhibitions:
the collections of Daniel Filipacchi and Necuhi Ertegun at the Guggenheim Museum in New York;
Chardin at the National Galleries of the Grand Palais (1999);
“Tribute to Ferdinand de Medicis”:
Villa Medici in Rome (1999);
“In Search of the Ideal City” exhibition at the Royal Saltworks in Arc-et-Senans (2000);
Nijinsky exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay (2000-2001),
Exhibition Design for the Christofle Silverware Museum in Saint-Denis—March 2002,
*Così fan tutte* (2005), *Miss Julie* (2005).
