Robert Mallet-Stevens

Staircase in the Hotel Martel, Paris (1927)

Robert Mallet-Stevens (born March 24, 1886 in Paris , † February 8, 1945 there ) was an avant-garde French architect of the late 1920s and early 1930s. His buildings emphatically emphasize the cubist shape.

Life

Robert Mallet-Stevens studied from 1903 to 1906 at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. In 1912 he exhibited his work at the Salon d'Automne and met the architects Pierre Chareau (1853–1950) and René Herbst . In 1913 he planned a villa property for Mrs. Paquin in Deauville and developed projects for exhibitions in Grand Lyon , London, Brussels and San Francisco. From 1920 to 1921 he designed the sets for the films Jettatura by Pierre-Gilles Veber and Le Secret de Rosette Lambert by Raymond Bernard .

Mallet-Stevens received the order for his first building, the Villa Noailles of the Vice-Count Charles de Noailles in Hyères ( Département Var ) in 1923. In 1924 he organized an exhibition of the Dutch artist group De Stijl . The following year he built the Alfa Romeo branch in Rue Marbeuf and the Pavillon du Tourisme at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern . From 1926 to 1927 the houses were built on Rue Mallet-Stevens in Auteuil (Paris). In 1929 he founded the Union des Artistes Modernes . In the same year he furnished Tamara de Lempicka's apartment on rue Méchain.

For his friend, the artist Louis Barillet , Mallet-Stevens built his town house on Square de Vergennes in Paris ( 15th arrondissement ) in 1932 and a large villa in Croix for an industrialist. In 1930 he built a distillery in Istanbul, the Café du Brésil on Boulevard Haussmann and a restaurant in the theater of Grasse ( Alpes-Maritimes department ). Together with the painter Fernand Léger , he created the equipment for the film L'inhumane by Marcel L'Herbier in 1923 . He planned pavilions for the 1937 World's Fair , two of which were decorated by Robert Delaunay .

Robert Mallet-Stevens died on February 8, 1945 in Paris and found his final resting place on the Cimetière de Passy .

Michel Ragon : Histoire de l'Architecture et de l'Urbanisme Modernes, Vol. 2: Naissance de la Cité Moderne, 1900–1940 . Casterman, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-02-013288-5 .
Katrin Eberhard: Machines at home. The mechanization of living in the modern age . gta Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85676-276-6 .
Alfred Werner Maurer : Architectural icons Provence, Côte d'Azur + Riviera, Villa Noailles . Philologus Verlag, Basel 2008.
Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 236.

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personal data
SURNAME	Mallet-Stevens, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	avant-garde French architect
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	February 8, 1945
Place of death	Paris