Jean-Michel Othoniel

Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 27 January 1964) is a French contemporary artist.

[1] He has worked in a variety of artistic media, including film, installation, photography and sculpture.

In 2000 he designed a new entrance for the Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre station of the Paris Métro.

[1][2][3] In 2006 he showed necklaces of large beads, made by master glass-blowers in Murano, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice; they were hung on the façade of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, which houses the collection.

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The place Colette in Paris; Othoniel's entrance to the métro station is on the left.