Paul Follot
Paul Follot (born July 17, 1877 in Paris , † 1941 in Sainte-Maxime near St. Tropez ) was a French designer of Art Deco and neo-Gothic .
Life
Paul Follot was the son of a wallpaper manufacturer and was a student of Eugène Grasset . From 1899 to 1903 he worked for La Maison Moderne, the Julius Meier-Graefes art dealer , and then became a freelance artist. In 1903 he was one of the founders of the artist group "L'Art dans Tout", which tried to offer resistance to the effects of industrialization and, above all, German industrial design and stood up for the French tradition of handicrafts .
In 1904, at the first salon of the Société des Artistes-Décorateurs, he presented an interior that was heavily influenced by Art Nouveau . At a later salon by the same company in 1909, however, a turn to neoclassicism was evident, which ultimately became characteristic of Follot's works.
From 1911 he delivered ceramic designs for Wedgwood ; He also designed textiles for Cornille et Cie , carpets for the Savonnerie Manufactory and silver objects for Christofle and FW Quist . In 1923 he became artistic director of the Pomone studio, where designs were created for Au Bon Marché , and in 1925 he designed the Pomone pavilion for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris. In 1928 he became a member of the management of the Paris office of Waring & Gillow . In 1929 he exhibited a dining room design in the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, and in 1935 he created a luxury suite for the Normandy ship .
A service by Follot is in the Dallas Museum of Art, the Musée d'Orsay has a door handle and an armchair based on Follot's designs. The Esslingen City Museum owns parts of a toilet set and two candlesticks that Follot designed for the FW Quist metal goods factory in Esslingen, some of which are signed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Feldmann: "Chosen for you". On the history of the metal goods factory FW Quist . In: Stadtmuseum Esslingen (ed.): SilberSachen . Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-935293-45-3 , pp. 53–86, here pp. 68–70.
- ↑ Paul Follot. In: belovedlinens.net. Retrieved September 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Musée d'Orsay: Une passion française. La collection Marlene et Spencer Hays. (No longer available online.) In: www.musee-orsay.fr. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015 ; accessed on September 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stadtmuseum Esslingen (ed.): SilberSachen . Ostfildern 2004, pp. 68 and 81.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Follot, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1941 |
| Place of death | Sainte-Maxime |