She also designed the interior of Air France’s Concorde jet (1993). Putman received numerous prizes, among them the Interior Design Hall of Fame Award (New York, 1987) and the Grand Prix National de la Création Industrielle (Paris, 1995). Her later work included sets for Peter Greenaway...
(An exception, he later points out, was the case last year when one wife decided she didn’t like the location of the lavatory on the jet her husband had ordered. “‘I don’t want the loo to be on the left; I want it to be on the right,’” Catroux recalls her saying. “So...