Jacques Adnet

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Adnet's signature on a work from 1926

Jacques Adnet (born April 20, 1900 in Châtillon-Coligny ; † October 29, 1984 in Paris ) was a French interior architect and designer of lights and furniture in the Art Deco style .

life and work

Cabinet from 1937 on display in the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris

Jacques Adnet attended the design school in Auxerre with his twin brother Jean , where he came into contact with avant-garde design for the first time. In 1916 he began his studies at the Paris École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs . In the meantime, he worked first for the interior designer Henri Rapin , then for Tony Selmersheim , and after 1920 also for Maurice Dufrène . After graduating in 1920, Jacques and Jean started their own company, JJ Adnet . Her work, which she showed in 1925 at the Société du Salon d'Automne and at the Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern , received great attention. Further works could be seen in the stores of Saddier et fils and La Maîtresse .

In the course of the 1920s the brothers dissolved their company and pursued different professional paths. The department store chain Galeries Lafayette , for which the brothers had previously worked briefly, employed Jacques' brother Jean Adnet as exhibition director. Jacques Adnet took on the position of chief designer in the Compagnie des Arts Français (CAF) founded in 1919 by André Mare and Louis Süe in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré , where he worked in this role for over 30 years. Here Adnet experimented together with other French designers such as Francis Jourdain, Charlotte Perriand , Alexandre Noll , Serge Mouille and Georges Jouve with designs of furniture with ornament-free, modern lines using luxurious materials such as fine woods, chrome-plated metals, mirror surfaces, leather, parchment or smoked glass . The interior designer followed the ideas of functionalism ; this simplicity is reflected both in his furniture and in his lighting objects, which often show bare lightbulbs in subtle metal frames.

By the late 1940s, Adnet had established itself as an internationally recognized figure in the design world. From 1948 to 1949 he was president of the Salon des artistes décorateurs ; here and at the Salon des arts ménagers he regularly exhibited his work. He worked with the fashion company Hermès until the 1950s , for which he created one of his most famous works, the Circulaire mirror , and leather-covered furniture in 1950 .

Adnet received orders for the design and furnishing of the house of the entrepreneur Frank Jay Gould , the apartment of the actress Alice Cocéa , the study of the French President Vincent Auriol at Rambouillet Castle (1947) and his apartment in the Élysée Palace for luxurious ocean liners like the Ferdinand de Lesseps (1952) and the UNESCO building (1958). In 1959, Adnet left his job with the Compagnie des Arts Francais and until 1971 took over the management of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs .

Jacques Adnet was the father of the pianist and painter Françoise Adnet .

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personal data
SURNAME Adnet, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French interior architect and designer of lights and furniture in the Art Deco style
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Châtillon-Coligny , France
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1984
Place of death Paris , France