Richard Peduzzi
Architect
Set designer, author, architect, painter, theater and opera decorator, Peduzzi loves Italy, the Renaissance and its capitals, the Quattrocento, Flemish painting, Paul Klee, Nicolas de Staël and the grey landscapes of Albert Marquet’s canvases.
His sets have been the backdrop for numerous theater and opera productions, notably for directors Patrice Chéreau, since 1968, and Luc Bondy.
After serving as Director of the Ecole 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 staging of the Opera rooms at the Musée d’Orsay, and the Louvre history rooms at the Musée du Louvre. He is responsible for the restoration and creation of furniture for the Musée de la Bibliothèque de l’Opéra Garnier.
He also designed the sets for Kurt Weil’s The Grandeur and Decadence of the City of Mahagony, staged by Peter Zadek at the Salzburg Festival in 1997.
“I try to bring out what I feel and talk about it all with my emotions.”
He has also worked on numerous exhibitions:
the Daniel Filipacchi and Necuhi Ertegun collections at the Guggenheim Museum in New York;
Chardin at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (1999) ;
“Homage to Ferdinand de Medici:
Villa Medici, Rome (1999);
A la recherche de la Cité Idéale” exhibition at the Saline Royale d’Arc-et-Senans (2000);
Nijinsky exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay (2000-2001),
Museography of the Christofle silverware museum in St Denis – March 2002,Così fan tutte (2005), Mademoiselle Julie (2005).
