Jean Royère
By: Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier ; preface by Jean-Louis Gaillemin ; English translation: Eileen Powis
Contributors: Gaillemin, Jean-Louis, writer of preface; Powis, Eileen, translator
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9782915542899
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Furniture design; Furniture designers; History
Description: "By the age of 30 Jean Royère had already established his brilliant career as a decorator. After eschewing the functionalism so in vogue in the 1930s, in 1939, at the Salon des artistes Décorateurs, he presented a boudoir which provocatively marked the return of ornament. A keen observer of contemporary design, Royère was an early discoverer of the Scandinavian and Italian designers - especially Alvar Aalto and Gio Ponti - and their new forms freely associating a set of ornaments, and employed them in variations of extreme virtuosity. From 1931 to 1972, Royère completed over a thousand projects around the globe, from the interior design of the Cité ouvrière d'Aplemont, a workers' housing development in northern France, to the decoration of the palace of the shah of Iran, creating a style evoking a desire for freedom and lightness that would leave its mark on an entire era and many of his contemporary designers. His furniture and objects, notably his emblematic armchairs and Ours sofas, are now the passionate focus of collectors of art and design around the world." --Amazon.
Notes: "With the participation of Christie's."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.