Marc Held is a french designer and architect.Marc Held (born 1932, Paris) is one of the key figures of French design and architecture in the second half of the 20th century. Trained in art and architecture, he founded his own studio in 1960, where he created modern, minimalist, and functional furniture, often conceived for mass production. He soon became associated with Crouzet-Held, founded with Pierre Crouzet, which published several of his signature pieces. In the 1960s, he collaborated with Prisunic, designing a collection of flat-pack, affordable furniture that became a symbol of democratic design.

In 1965, he created for Knoll International the famous Culbuto chair, with its rounded backrest and rocking seat, which became an icon of Space Age design. Sculptural yet playful, it remains one of his most celebrated works. His collaboration with Knoll earned him international acclaim, while his projects with Prisunic and Crouzet-Held anchored his work in everyday French life.

From the 1980s onward, Marc Held increasingly turned to architecture, leaving a lasting mark in Greece, particularly on the island of Skopelos, where he designed houses harmoniously integrated into the Mediterranean landscape, including his own home and studio. A complete artist, also active as a photographer, he has always sought to combine functional rigor with the poetry of simple forms. His body of work reveals a rare balance between technical innovation, formal simplicity, and the will to make design accessible to the greatest number.