Jacques Biny

Jacques Biny is a major French designer and publisher of the period of the Glorious Thirties. He collaborated with some of the best young designers of his time, such as Michel Buffet, Gustave Gauthier, Jean Boris Lacroix and Charles Ramos, and decided to enter the world of lighting.
A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Jacques Biny first settled in Valence, his native city, where he worked as a decorator. He then decided to design his first models due to the lack of lighting on his sites. In 1950, following this successful experience, he returned to Paris and five years later founded his own modern lighting manufacturing workshop, Luminalite.
Modern and pioneering, Jacques Biny designs a range of "rational lighting fixtures" for the home. For him, the function and sobriety of the lines are essential.
For nearly thirty years, Jacques Biny continued to work on the quality and efficiency of models produced in an almost obsessive manner.
In the 1960s, Jacques Biny commissioned lighting installations for major projects such as the great cinema of Valence Le Palace, the rooms of the Cité universitaire d'Antony and Nanterre or the prefecture of Valence.
Finally, Jacques Biny died in 1976, while his company was still very successful.
Jacques Biny is a kind of conductor of the orchestra of light. His words: "it is the search for the right balance between the rigours of technology and an aesthetic that integrates into contemporary architecture that has guided the creation of my lighting fixtures".