Architect and design historian, Cloé Pitiot travelled the world with her watercolours before joining the Centre Pompidou in 2010, then the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where she is now curator in charge of the Art Deco and Contemporary Design collections. She curated many exhibitions, such as Eileen Gray, which first showcased at the Centre Pompidou before travelling to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin followed by the Bard Graduate Center in New York. She more recently organised 10,000 Years of Luxury with Olivier Gabet at the Louvre Abu Dhabi and at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. She is now preparing a multidisciplinary show on the fashion designer, Iris van Herpen, with Louise Curtis. During the past years as a curator, Cloé Pitiot has been working on sustainable design and creative methods, with more general focus on the 20th and 21st centuries.