Patrick le Quément

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Patrick le Quément, 2016

Patrick le Quément (born February 4, 1945 in Marseille ) is a French car designer. After the sudden death of his father shortly after the end of the war, he grew up with his mother's relatives in England. He studied from 1962 to 1966 at the Birmingham School of Art, among others with the goldsmith and Bauhaus teacher Naum Slutzky . Le Quément was chief designer at the car manufacturer Renault from 1987 to 2009 .

Le Quément completed his training at Simca and then founded his own company, which, however, was unsuccessful. In 1968 he went to the British subsidiary of the automobile manufacturer Ford and worked there as a designer. From 1981 to 1985 he was chief designer at Ford, headed the Design Center in Cologne-Merkenich and was responsible for exterior design. Numerous automobiles and trucks (such as the Ford Cargo ) of this time bear his signature. After a stopover in Detroit , le Quément returned to Europe at the invitation of Carl Hahn , Chairman of Volkswagen AG . From 1985 to 1987, Le Quément was director of the specially established center for design and strategy of the Volkswagen / Audi group in Düsseldorf.

In 1987, le Quément was discontinued by Renault to put an end to the decline in sales with new models. The design department was expanded and reports directly to the board . Under the leadership of Le Quéments, numerous much-discussed concept cars such as the Renault Argos (1994), the Renault Initiale first presented at the IAA in 1995, or the Renault Avantime (1999), which later suffered from manufacturing defects as a series model, were created. Important series models that were developed under le Quément included Renault Twingo (1992), Renault Scénic (1996), Renault Vel Satis (2002), as well as the III. and IV. generation of the Renault Espace . In 2009 he retired. Since then he has been operating a consulting company for industrial design and design management.

The successor to Renault is the Dutch designer Laurens van den Acker .

Honors

His college, now part of Birmingham City University , awarded le Quément an honorary doctorate in 1996. In 1992, le Quément was awarded the Gran Prix de la Création. The French Minister of Culture Jack Lang presented the award. In 1998 he became Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur-France. In 2002 le Quément was awarded the Lucky Strike Designer Award .

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Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000388295&fastPos=19&fastReqId=283675313&oldAction=rechExpTexteJorf&oldAction=rechExpTexteJorf | Décrination du 8 etril nomant 1998
  • George Mason: Patrick le Quément, Renault Design. Car Man 6, Automobila, Milano 2000, ISBN 88-7960-101-7 .
  • Patrick le Quément, Serge Bellu: De Simca a Renault. 40 Ans De Design. ETAI, Boulogne 2010, ISBN 978-2-7268-8967-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Quément, Patrick le
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French car chief designer at Renault
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille