Pierre Chareau

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Bureau-bibliothèque by Pierre Chareau, Musée des Arts Décoratifs , Paris

Pierre Chareau (* 1883 in Bordeaux , † 1950 in East Hampton (New York) ) was a French architect , interior designer and musician .

Life

Pierre Chareau was a co-founder of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) in 1928 and in 1930, with Robert Mallet-Stevens and René Herbst, a founding member of the Union des Artistes Modernes (UAM) and a member of the Comité de Patronage de l'Architecture d'aujourd'hui . He was one of the protagonists of the “useful forms” in everyday decor.

He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (ENSBA) in Paris after his admission to the architecture section of the school had been rejected in April 1900. From 1903 to 1914 he worked as a draftsman in the Paris branch of the English furniture and decoration company Warring & Gillow. In 1904 he married the Englishwoman Louise Dyte . In 1919 he opened "La boutique" in Paris, Rue du Cherche-Midi and founded his own company in Paris at Rue Nollet 54. He worked with the Dutch architect Bernard Bijvoet and the blacksmith Louis Dalbet and was from 1935 to 39 he business partner of Louis Moret . In 1939 he emigrated to the USA and lived there in East Hampton until his death.

Main features of his work

Through regular participation in the Salon des Artistes décorateurs and Salon d'Automne , Chareau became known as a designer and interior decorator. With his furniture designs he differed from Art Deco and developed a personal design language. He combined his initially classic wood furniture with fine wood veneer with wrought iron. Working with Dalbet, he developed this for industrial production. In 1925 he showed his “Bureau-bibl.” For furnishing a French embassy at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris. Around 1927 he designed the Religieuse modele SN 31 floor lamp for the Grand Hôtel Tours

From 1941 to 1945 he supported the activities of France for Ever , he became artistic advisor to the French cultural attachés and member of the editorial committee of the magazine Possibilités .

With the Maison de verre house designed between 1927 and 1931 , which is characterized by its translucent facades and open planes, Chareau, together with Bernard Bijvoet , succeeded in creating a major work of 20th century architecture.

Works

  • Golf club house in Beauvallon, Cote d'Azur , France
  • 1926 Villa Vent-d'Aval in Beauvallon, Côte d'Azur, France
  • 1931 Maison de verre , home and practice of Dr. Jean Dalsace Paris 7e, 31, Rue Saint-Guillaume, France
  • 1939 one-room house in East Hampton, USA
  • 1948 studio house for the painter Robert Motherwell in East Hampton, New York State, USA.

literature

  • Alfred Werner Maurer : Architectural icons Provence, Côte d'Azur + Riviera. Philologus Verlag, Basel 2008.
  • V. Frampton: Pierre Chareau: Protagonisti del Movimento Moderno. In: Ottagono. 1986, 81 D. Baroni, pp. 52-59.
  • BB Taylor: Pierre Chareau Designer and Architect. Taschen Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-8228-7887-1 .
  • Olivier Cinqualbre: Pierre Chareau: La maison de verre, 1928–1933. Éditions Jean-Michel Place, 2001, ISBN 2-85893-579-3 .
  • Collectif: Pierre Chareau architecte, un art intérieur. Center Georges Pompidou, 1993, ISBN 2-85850-736-8 .
  • Marc Vellay, Kenneth Frampton: Pierre Chareau: Architecte-meublier, 1883–1950. Éditions du Regard, 1984, ISBN 2-903370-14-1 .
  • René Herbst , Francis Jourdain: Un inventeur, l'architecte Pierre Chareau. 1954.
  • Fernando Montes: Pierre Chareau with Bernard Bijvoet: Maison Dalsace ("Maison de verre"). ADA Edita, Tokyo 1977.
  • Yukio Futagawa (Ed.): La maison de verre . ADA Edita, Tokyo 1988, ISBN 4-87140-527-3 .
  • Dominique Vellay: La Maison de Verre: Pierre Chareau's modernist masterwork . Thames & Hudson, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-500-51304-0 .

Web links

Commons : Pierre Chareau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paris, Arch. Nat .: AJ / 52.
  2. ↑ cf. Vellay-Frampton
  3. ↑ The canon of the billionaire heir. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . March 27, 2011, p. 57.
personal data
SURNAME Chareau, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect, interior designer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH 1950
Place of death East Hampton (New York)