Patrick Seguin (born January 29, 1954 in Montpellier) is an art dealer specialized in design and architecture of the 20th century.
I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.
Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to visit you, we hang out together, and that's art.
I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively.
I was born in the south of France, I moved to Paris 30 years ago. I was running nightclubs and restaurants, so that was my business - working until six o'clock every morning, and then one day I noticed my wife. We opened the gallery together. She got pregnant, she was 22, I was 35, and it was time for me to change my life, and I decided to wake up early - wake up at the time I used to sleep.
My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the point of collecting. It's certainly a [better] quality of life you have living with [these] works, but [I] also [value] the relationship we have with the artists.
In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.
Roy Cohn
Lasse Viren
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Gregg Araki
Iker Casillas
Henry de Montherlant
Brian Stann
Tito Puente
Joe Hahn
Bill Bradley
Eliza Lynn Linton
Jonathan Zittrain