Diane Barbier-Mueller: Driven Young Bibliophile

This young 26-year-old woman with blond hair and eyes sparkling with intelligence has a master’s degree in Law, and is about to complete a second in Property Law. Diane Barbier-Mueller already works in the family-run property management company Pilet & Renaud, one of the oldest in Geneva, owned by her father Stéphane. Like all the members of this extremely large family, Diane lacks neither passion nor ideas to carry on the collection of the museum created in 1977 by her late grandfather, Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller. The Biennale Paris pays homage to your grandfather, who died last December, and through him, to your entire family of collectors…   Yes. First there is my father, Stéphane, who is fascinated by French and Russian coins, and the painter Vigée Le Brun. Then come my two uncles, Thierry and Gabriel, respectively contemporary and Japanese art collectors. My grandmother, Monique, was a modern art buff. But of the eleven…