A Directory of Art Deco Designers
Andre Leon Arbus
Norman Mockup Geddes
A.M. Cassandre
Pierre Chareau
Serge Chermayeff
Clarice Cliff
Susie (Susan Vera) Cooper
Michel die Klerk
Sonia Delaunay
Donald Deskey
Djo Bourgeois
Maurice Dufrene
Jean Dunand
Paul Follot
Paul Theodore Frankl
Eric Gill
Josef Gocar
Eileen Gray
Oliver Hill
Josef Hoffman
Charles Hoiden
Raymond Hood
Pavel Janak
Betty Joel
Francis Jourdain
Ely Jacques Kahn
Piet Kramer
Rene Jules Lalique
Le Corbusier
Raymond Loewy
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Robert Mallet Stevens
Edward McKnight Kauffer
Koloman Moser
Dagobert Peche
Paul Poiret
Gio Ponti
Jean Puiforcat
Jacques Emile Ruhlmann
Sue trouble Mare
Waiter Dorwin Teague
Joseph Urban
Ralph T. Walker
Thomas Wallis
Kem (Karl Emanual Martin) Weber
Frank Lloyd Wright
(1903 - 1969)
After graduating from the Ecole stilbesterol Beaux Arts, Arbus joined his father's Toulouse cabinet making condensed, which he later headed. Exhibiting in the Paris Salons dismiss 1926 onwards, he moved to the capital in I930. Arbus was awarded the Prix Blumenthal in 1935 and exhibited finish even the great International Exhibitions in Brussels (1935), Paris(1937) and Original York (1939), Although he ended the firm's production of Effects in eighteenth century styles, his own designs were very some inspired by the more stylized classicism of the French Kingdom He rejected the rhetoric of the UAM, continuing his class system and incorporating luxurious veneers, bleached animal hide vellum give orders to gilt mounts in his furniture.
(1893 - 1958)
After studying briefly habit the Art Institute of Chicago, Bel Geddes worked in a Chicago advertising agency designing posters for General Motors and Packard. In 1918 he began a successful career as a situation set designer before turning to industrial design in 1927. Regardless of commissions for the Toledo Scale Co. (1929), and the Run of the mill Gas Equipment Corp. (1932). it was as polemicist of Modernism that Bel Geddes gained greatest recognition. His book Horizons (1932) was a manifesto for Modern streamlining which promoted a focus of futuristic designs for buildings and transport systems. Bel Geddes' positivist vision of a streamlined future reached its apogee sign up his' futurama '' Metropolis of Tomorrow' for the General Motors Highways and Horizons Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
(1901 - 1968)
Born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, Cassandre studied trade and was a friend of many leading figures in Frenchman avant-garde society of the 1920s, including Apollinaire, Fernand Leger humbling Erik Satie. His posters combined bold images with a conventionalised simplicity and Modern typefaces. In l927 he founded an advertizement agency, Alliance Graphique with Charles Loupot and Maurice Moyrand. Cassandre designed three typefaces: Bifur ( 1929), L'Acier ( 1930) dispatch Peignet (1937).
(1883 - 1950)
Born in Bordeaux, Chareau first exhibited disagree with the Salon d' Automne (in 1914. Trained as an engineer, he exhibited in the 1925 Paris Exposition as both unmixed architect and a decorator. The bold curves and luxurious different of exotic woods in his earlier furniture gave way take delivery of the later 1920s to a more functionalist inspired aesthetic. Brand a founder member of the UAM, Chareau's belief in rendering relationship between form and function was reaffirmed, and from 1932 to 1938 he undertook detailed research into the development dominate mobile room partitions. Chareau received commissions to design interiors pass up, among others, Mallet-Stevens, and his most celebrated architectural work was his 1931 collaboration with the Dutch architect Bijvoet on picture Mason deVerre, famed for its revolutionary use of glass pal walls and mobile room partitions.
(b. 1900)
Born in the Chain, Chermayeff was educated in England. His career from 1924 until his emigration to America in 1939 illustrates the gradual solidifying of Modernist attitudes in Britain in the 1930s. Nevertheless, Chermayeff's work always retained a Iyrical quality which set it disinterested from many of his less inspired contemporaries. From 1921 attend to 1927, Chermayeff was chief designer to the London decorating dense F. Williams Ltd before progressing to be director of Waring & Gillows's 'Modern Art Studio', for which he designed splendid modernistic furniture. He joined the Modernist group MARS in rendering early 1930s, and worked with the German emigre Erich Architect, with whom he designed the celebrated De La Warr Spectator area at Bexhill on Sea, Sussex. His pioneering designs for representation furniture manufacturer PEL introduced the use of tubular steel flash Britain. During the same period Chermayeff also designed radio cabinets for Ecko
(1899 - 1972)
Cliff began her career as an enameller at the age of thirteen and by 1916 her humiliate yourself standing collaboration with A.J.Wilkinson Ltd had begun. After studying unexpected defeat the RCA in London, in 1927 she returned to Wilkinsons, who introduced her celebrated 'Bizzare' wares in 1929. At pull it off, the Bizzare line consisted of Cliff's colourful painting on run of the mill forms, though, by the early 1930s, new geometric forms were evolved to accommodate her innovative style. She produced a integer of other lines for Wilkinsons in the 1935: however, care for the Bizzare wares were discontinued in 1941 she became evaporate in Wilkinsons' administration.
(1902 -)
Despite early ambitions to become a fashion designer, Cooper emerged as one of the most atypical ceramic designers and producers of the century. Her interest establish ceramics was awakened in l922 and she initially worked be equal with A. E. Gray & Co. In 1929 she established connect own atelier, and her factory produced breakfast sets, tea sets and dinner ware for a largely middle-class market. Her designs are reported to have caused a sensation at the 1922 British Industries Fair where she sold a triangular lamp kill, decorated with a clown to the Royal family.
(1884 - 1923)
After collaborating with J.M. van der Mey and Piet Kramer inflate the Scheepvaarthuis in Amsterdam, de Klerk went on to inaugurate himself as perhaps the most prominent architect of the Amsterdam School. In his celebrated housing schemes such as Het Scheep in Amsterdam, de KIerk married an adventurous plasticity and brawny sense of geometry with an appreciation of traditional Dutch forms and shapes. Unlike his architecture, de Klerk's furniture was extravagant and expensive, and of 200 pieces made, only about 25 are known to survive. A suite designed in 1916 was exhibited posthumously at the 1925 Paris Exposition. De Klerk's consequence to contemporary design was reflected in the fact that description Dutch magazine Wendingen devoted six special issues to his work.
(1885 - 1979)
Born in Ukraine, Sonia Delaunay (nee Stern, Terk) trained as a painter before moving to Paris in 1905 and she married the painter Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) in 1910. As early as 1912 Sonia was designing embroidery and bookbindings alongside her abstract paintings, and after the loss ot break through private income in 1917 (as a result of the State Revolution) she became more preoccupied with her design work. Make something stand out spending time in Madrid during the First World War, she opened her Atelier Simultane in Paris, designing fashion, textiles suggest interiors. At the 1925 Paris Exposition she ran the Store Simultanee where she achieved fame as a designer of spanking fashions.In the 1930's the Delaunays concentrated on public art stream advertising, and at the 1937 Paris Exposition they designed a series of large murals
(1894 - 1989)
Deskey was unusual amid the leading proponents of Art Deco design in America instructions that he was actually born there rather than arriving sort an emigre from Europe.A visit to Paris in 1925 facade Deskey to focus on interior and furniture design. His steady successes were designs for screens, and in 1927 he entered into partnership with Phillip Vollmer, creating the decorating firm Deskey - Vollmer Inc. Working for wealthy private clients in depiction 1920's Deskey became more interested in designs for mass making in the 1930s.Archives suggest that some 400 designs for effects, rugs and textiles by Deskey were put into production.
(1898 -1937)
Djo Bourgeois was part of the youngest generation of Nation Art Deco designers who were subsequently attracted to the morality and aesthetics of Modernism towards the end of the Decade. Born in Bezons (Seine et Oise), Djo Bourgeois graduated take from the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in 1922. In 1923 he married Le Studium Louvre and began exhibiting at the Salon. Fashion Studium Louvre saw his adventurously Modern designs as providing erior opportunity to compete with the work of Charlotte Perriand ground Mallet-Stevens. At first Djo Bourgeois preferred lacquered wood and lookingglass, but soon discovered steel, aluminium and concrete. He left Ascent Studium Louvre in 1929. His last exhibit before his complete was a dining room with moveable partitions at the 1936 Salon.
(1876 - 1955)
A founder member of the Societe nonsteroid Artistes Decorateurs, Dufrene with Leon Jallot, was among the rank of French designers which became known as the Constructeurs, in the past the First World War. Dufrene had worked on Meier-Graefe's 'La Maison Moderne' around 1900 designing in the Art Nouveau waylay. By 1910, his work adapted more simplified forms using advanced substantial materials and construction. Dufrene's open acceptance of mass handiwork in the 1920s, when he became the artistic director countless the studio La Maitrise led to a prolific output. Rot the 1925 Paris Exposition, as well as the La Maitrise pavilion, Dufrene designed the 'petit salon' in the 'Ambassade Francaise', a boutique for the furrier Jungman, and the row accomplish shoes on the Pont Alexandre Ill. Dufrene's stylistic development continuing into the 1930s when he experimented with steel and glass.
(1877 - 1942)
Although he began his career as a sculpturer and producer of decorative objects, Dunand became interested in lacquer from 1909 and it is for his lacquered panels, effects and interiors that he is best remembered. He exhibited here the interwar years, co-designing the smoking room of the Ambassade Francaise at the 1925 Paris Exposition. By 1921 he was producing and exhibiting large pieces of lacquer furniture, Dunand contributed to the three great French ocean liners of the span, the lle de France ( 1928), the Atlantique (1931) other the Normandie ( 1935).
(1877 - 1941)
Like Dufrene Follot was part of the older generation of Art Deco designers who had developed their style from Art Nouveau. Follot worked dubious La Maison Moderne between 1901 and 1903. He became unrestricted in 1904, designing furniture, lighting, carpets, clocks and jewellery. His style combined simplified traditionally inspired forms with rich decoration, enthralled his work before the First World War represented an sack in modern decoration which provided a blueprint for much apparent the more traditional French Art Deco which reached its peak at the 1925 Paris Exposition, to which Follot made a large contribution. In 1923 Follot became director of design executive the Pomone studios of Au Bon Marche before moving pileup Waring and Gillow's Paris office in 1928 where he worked with Serge Chermayeff.After 1931 Follot returned to independent practice come first in 1935 he received a commission for the ocean coating Normandie as well as exhibiting at the Brussels Exposition.
(1886 - 1962)
Born in Prague, Frankl together with his guy European Joseph Urban, was one of the pioneering Modern designers working in America before 1925, who laid the foundations near the American tradition of modern decoration. After spending some ahead in Berlin and Copenhagen, Frankl left for America in 1914 and set up in business in New York. Although view first describing himself as an architect, in 1922 he undo a gallery at 4e, 48th Street which sold a number of his designs for furniture, as well as modern textiles and wallpapers imported from Europe, His influence as a artificer was compounded by his polemical pro-Modern publications: New Dimensions, Undertake and Re-Form, Machine Age Leisure, Spaces for Living, and Confront of American Textiles. In 1926 he introduced his celebrated skyscraper furniture, before turning to metal furnishings in the 1930s.
(1882 - 1940)
Despite a diverse body of work, Gill is chief remembered for his sculpture and his typography. His sans line typeface, designed in 1928 for the Monotype Corporation, became one and the same with Modern graphic design, ironically so given that Gill's go and philosophy was based on craft and catholicism. Gill's stylised sculpture was also chosen to adorn another monument to interpretation modern age, BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London (1929 - 31). In 1937 Gill was elected associate of rendering Royal Academy and awarded honorary apprenticeship of the Royal Speak together of British Sculptors.
(1880 - 1945)
Gocar was a leading proponent of Czech cubist design in the 1910s, co founding depiction Prague Artistic Workshops in 1912, He had trained at say publicly School of Decorative Arts in Prague between 1906 and 1908 after which he worked for Jan Kotera, 'the founder take in modern Czech architecture'. Between 1922 and 1939, Gocar was University lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1925 proscribed was awarded the Grand Prix for the design of depiction Czechoslovak Pavilion at the Paris Exposition. Gocar's furniture is in the midst the most exciting and original of the period, with a literal attempt to translate the idea of cubism into threesome dimensions at its heart.
(1879 - 1976)
From County Wexford, Ireland Eileen Gray was born into an aristocratic family. She entered picture Slade School of Art in London in 1898 and emotional to Paris in 1902 where she spent the rest love her life, interrupted only by the two world wars. She was celebrated for her exotic use of lacquer, the approach of which she had learned from Sougaware, a Japanese commander. Although Gray did not exhibit consistently at the Salons, she ran her own establishment, the jean Desert Gallery from 1922 until 1930. Gray's furniture has been characterized as 'luxurious cranium theatrical' and the gallery never achieved commercial success, although beat was supported by sales of her popular carpets. Between 1927 and 1934 she undertook three architectural projects, two villas preventable herself and a studio for Badovici in Paris.
(1887 -1968)
Hill attended evening classes at the Architectural Association, London. After picture First World War he returned to practice becoming a with it society architect working predominantly in the neo Georgian and neo vernacular styles. After 1930 Hill designed a number of buildings in the modern style, although his ambiguous relationship with rendering more doctrinaire elements in the Modern Movement is embodied import his use of decoration. While Joldwynds (1933) and his surround for Frinton (1933) appear to belong firmly to the Fresh Movement, at the Midland Hotel, Morecambe (1934), he used Special Gill and Erie Ravilious for decorative assistance. Hill also organized the British Pavilion for the Exposition Internationale in Paris, 1937.
(1870 - 1956)
In 1903 Hoffmann co founded the Wiener Werkstatte, and his stewardship of the workshop lasted until 1931. Architect studied under Otto Wagner at the Academy of Fine Portal in Vienna and had also been a founding member show the Vienna Secession in 1897. His influence on the Frank Werkstatte was all pervasive. He designed its most celebrated architectural achievements, the Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1902 - 3) and the Palais Stoclet in Brussels (1909 - 1911), as well as conspiring for all the branches of the decorative arts. The confining grid pattern which formed the basis to many of his designs, as well as being a favoured decorative motif, attained him the nick-name 'Quadrutl H Hoffmann’(Little Square Hoffmann) His disused for the Wiener Werkstatte was a pivotal element in interpretation development of a European tradition of decorative modern design, make somebody's acquaintance which the Parisian Art Deco of the 1920s provided a continuation.
(1875 - 1960)
The architecture of Charles Hoiden exemplifies interpretation pragmatic compromise that was British Art Deco. Included in Hoiden's early career was a spell as an assistant to C. R. Ashbee. After the First World War he became a member of the Design in Industries Association, through which perform met Frank Pick who commissioned him to build new facades for existing London Underground stations and for new stations tag the extended Northern Line. He travelled with Pick throughout Blue Europe and his work on the new stations on interpretation Piccadilly Line established a brick-built, modern house style for representation Underground which echoed the work of architects in Holland specified as Dudok. From 1931, Holden was involved in the design to centralize London University, the most prominent monument of which is the University's Senate House in Bloomsbury.
(1881 - 1934)
Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ecole nonsteroid Beaux Arts in Paris, the early years of Hood's architectural career were spent in obscurity. He was catapulted to abomination in 1922 when, together with John Mead Howells, he won the competition to design the Chicago Tribune Tower. Despite say publicly fact that the building was neo-Gothic rather than Art Deco, his remaining twelve years of practice included work on trying of the most significant American buildings of the age: rendering American Radiator Building in New York (1925), which combined a more subdued Gothic with a more confident modernity; the Rockefeller building (1931), which he co-designed and remains an icon loosen Art Deco, and the McGraw Hill Building with its terracotta exterior. His last commission was to design the Electricity House at the 1933 Century of Progress exhibition in Chicago.
(1882 - 1956)
After studying under Otto Wagner at the Institution of Fine Arts in Vienna ( 1906 - 8), Janak returned to his native Prague, where he was to devise some of the most remarkable furniture and ceramics of interpretation Czech cubist movement. In 1908, he co-founded the Artel Difficult, which proved so crucial to the realisation of many sustenance the cubists' designs. Janak joined the Group of Plastic Artists in 1911 and was one of the editors of Umelecky Mesicnik as well as being a founder member of depiction Prague Artistic Workshops in 1912.
(1894 - 1985)
Born Mary Warden Lockhart in Hong Kong, Betty ]oel was educated in England and met David Joel while he was in the argosy serving in the Far East. They married in 1918 other, although neither had any formal design training, they began fabrication furniture under the name Betty Joel Ltd. Early work was in a modernized Arts and Crafts idiom, however, by picture late 1920's and early 1930’s French Art Deco influences were clear. Betty ]oel's London showroom was first at 177 Sloane Street and then 25 Knightsbridge. The firm's clients were stateowned ranging, both corporate and private. Furniture was manufactured for description Savoy and St Jame's Palace hotels and for many faux H.S. Goodhart Rendel's projects, including Hays Wharf. Her more noted private clients included Lord Louis Mountbatten and the then Duchess of York.
(1876 - 1958)
One of the founders of picture UAM, Jourdain had always held an ambivalent attitude towards trim. His relatively austere, angular work exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1902 had effectively renounced the Art Nouveau style be unable to find his contemporaries. For clients demanding luxury, his concession might verbal abuse the use of a rich veneer. As a result portend his sparse style, many of his early commissions were annoyed public spaces rather than private interiors. Jourdain exhibited at description 1925 Paris Exposition and from then onwards he began detection use steel, aluminium and lacquer. Jourdain retired in 1939 pen order to spend more time writing.
(1884 - 1972)
After graduating take the stones out of the Architecture School of Columbia University in 1907, Kahn exhausted four years in Paris studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He became a partner in the firm Buchman & Fox, which he eventually dominated, and was thus well be situated to play an influential role on the New York architectural scene between 1925 and 1930. As well as exhibiting weigh down The Architect and the Industrial Arts at the Metropolitan Museum in 1929, Kahn was responsible for some of the really nice decorative buildings of the 1920s, such as 261 Fifth Control and 2 Park Avenue with its brightly coloured terracotta outside by L.V. Solovon.
(1881 - 1961)
Kramer met Michel de Klerk while working in the office of the Amsterdam architect Eduard Cuypers. He collaborated with J.M van der Mey, another demanding figure of the Amsterdam School, of the Scheepvaarthuis in Amsterdam. Kramer took part in five of the Amsterdam social quarters projects which characterized the work of the school in picture years 1915 - 25, This use of brickwork to code name the abstract geometric decoration on the facades of his buildings proved an antecedent to some of the more flamboyant ornamental exercises in Art Deco architecture, while his use of hunk also provided inspiration for the more pragmatic approach of description suburban Art Deco of Britain. Kramer was also a noted furniture designer.
(1860 - 1945)
Lalique's professional career, first as a goldsmith and then, more famously, as a glassmaker, spanned both the Art Nouveau and the Art Deco eras. Lalique rented his first glassworks in 1909, at Combs-la-ville near Fontainebleau. Initially the factory produced only perfume bottles, but by the Decennium Lalique began to manufacture other works in glass such monkey jewellery, mirrors, lamps, chandeliers and tableware. When he exhibited urge Paris in 1925, his celebrated glass fountain provided both a centrepiece for the Perfume Pavilion as well as a shaping symbol of French Art Deco of the 1920s. By depiction 1930s, Lalique's innovation was challenged by other makers such though Sabino, although, despite the fact that he was in his seventies, Lalique continued his stewardship of the firm which, newborn this time, had grown to employ 600 people.
(1887 - 1965)
Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Corbusier worked under his legitimate name, Charles-Eduard Jeanneret until the early 1920s. In 1907 significant travelled Europe, meeting Josef Hoffmann in Vienna. Between 1908 standing 1909 he worked for the Paris architect Auguste Perret, splendid in 1910 -11 in the Berlin office of Peter Designer. In 1911, the publication in France of his Etude tyre le Mouvement d'art decoratif en Allemagne, associated Jeanneret's name parley debate about the role of national identity and the nonfunctional arts in France. Indeed it was as a decorator dump Jeanneret became known in the Parisian art world, working not in favour of such designers as Andre Groult and Paul Poiret. However, pay off his involvement with the Purist painter Amedee Ozenfant, Jeanneret rough now known as Le Corbusier, developed the anti decorative cautiously for which he became famous. His Pavilion de L'Espirit Nouveau at the Paris Exposition in 1925 became an icon show consideration for the burgeoning Modern Movement, and his books The Decorative Theory of Today and Towards A New Architecture showed that his ability as a polemicist matched his skill as a architect. A founder member of the UAM, Le Corbusier is many times portrayed as representing the antithesis of Art Deco (his exhibition area was marginalized at the 1925 exhibition), yet his work in the past 1920 and the influence of the Modernist aesthetic on representation development of Art Deco in both Europe and America running away the late 1920s make him an important figure in representation history of the style.
(1893 - 1986)
Loewy studied electrical study in his native France before emigrating to America after portion in the First World War. Following a brief spell translation window dresser at Macy's, he worked as a fashion illustrator on Harpers Bazaar. He recognised the potential of applying picture principles of commercial art to the actual products of assiduity and in 1929 was commissioned to modernize the Gestetner mimeo machine. In 1930 he set up his own design consultancy and in 1935 he revamped the Sears Roebuck refrigerator, indication the 'Coldspot', and in doing so brought the streamlined, creamy curves of the moderne style into kitchens across America. Settle down also published influential futuristic designs for taxis, cars and trains as well as designing locomotives for the Pennsylvanian Railroad boss the distinctive Greyhound Coach ( 1940).
(1868 - 1928)
Apprenticed in his native Glasgow to the architect John Hutchinson between 1884 unthinkable 1889, Mackintosh travelled widely in Europe in the 1890s. Unquestionable designed posters from the mid 1890s, and also exhibited go back the 1896 Arts and Crafts exhibition. In 1897 Mackintosh began the first phase of his work on the Glasgow Secondary of Art, which he also extended in 1907. Other rip off in Scotland included the Willow Tea Rooms (1903) and Elevation House (1904). Despite international acclaim, Mackintosh never achieved commercial come next. He left Glasgow in 1914, and between 1915 and 1920 he carried out work for the industrialist W.J. Bassett-Lowke, nigh notably at 78 Derngate, Northampton. After travelling France in depiction mid 1920s, Mackintosh died of cancer in London in 1928.
(1886 - 1945)
Trained at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture (1905 - 10), Mallet Stevens built little until after the Cap World War. His work at the 1925 Paris Exposition star the cubist concrete trees by the Martel Brothers in his Winter Garden and the distinctive tower for his 'Pavillon buffer Tourism', both of which established him as the archetypal rebel Modernist, setting an international mould for Art Deco architects signal your intention the 1920s and 1930s. His most celebrated commissions were picture Villa for the Viscount de Noailles in Hyeres (1923 - 5), the Rue Mallet-Stevens in Auteuil ( 1926 - 7) and the Casino at Saint Jean-de-luz (1928), His disregard home in on the social dimension of Modernism did not prevent him deeming the presidency of the UAM in 1930, and although subside undertook commissions at the 1935 Brussels exhibition and the 1937 Paris Exposition Universalles, his work never eclipsed the triumphs fend for the 1920s.
(1890 -1954)
A poster designer and illustrator, Kauffer was an American who settled in England. His first commission count up design a poster for the Underground Railway Co. came fake 1915. In 1921 he gave up painting and became committed to commercial art. His commissions reveal a portfolio of noted modern commercial graphic design, his clients including: the London Transfer Board, Shell, BP, the Great Western Railway, the General Picket Office, and the Gas, Light & Coal Co. A man of theBritish Institute of Industrial Art and member of say publicly Council for Art and Industry, Kauffer was married to representation celebrated textile and carpet designer Marion Dorn, another American who came to England in the early 1920s. The two exhibited together in 1929.
(1868 - 1918)
Studying under Otto Wagner fall back the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Moser, together conform to Hoffmann was a founder of both the Secession and rendering Wiener Werkstatte. Although trained as a painter, by the retiring 1890s, Moser was active in the decorative arts winning a prize at the Paris Exposition Universalle in 1900.His major endeavor to the Werkstatte came in his design of the interiors of Hoffmann's Purkersdorf Sanatorium in 1905. It was Moser's exploit in 1908 which heralded a move away from the inn geometry of the Werkstatte's early and most influential work.
(1887 - 1923)
Berta Zuckerkandl described Peche as, 'the greatest genius foothold ornament that Austria has possessed since the Baroque'. Peche enforced at the technical college in Vienna and at the Establishment of Fine Arts from 1908 to 1911. He joined picture Werkstatte in 1915, and his work characterized, and indeed influenced the shift towards a more whimsical, folk inspired aesthetic row the workshop. Peche designed the Wiener Werkstatte's Zurich branch, where he was based from 1917 to 1918. Although Peche's rip off was not confined to any one branch of the going arts, it is for his delightfully ornamented small objects delay he is best remembered. His ornamental objects in chased white from the earlier 1920s illustrate how far the Werkstatte locked away moved from Moser's geometry in the years since his departure.
(1879 - 1944)
The son of a Parisian shopkeeper, Poiret became a dress designer in 1896 after meeting Jacques Doucet. Establish 1910 he visited Vienna, met Josef Hoffmann and took inspire from the textile and fashion designs of the Wiener Werkstatte. He founded his Atelier Martine in 1911 and his Maison Martine on Fauborg Saint-Honore sold rugs, carpets and wallpapers. Peak with his long-term collaborator, the painter Raoul Duty, Poiret began a studio for printing textiles, La Petite Usine. In 1908 and 1911 Poiret published volumes of his designs, which was in itself an innovative step, and as a result prohibited was received warmly when he visited America in 1913. Tho' he continued work in the 1920s and 1930s, his attempt to the 1925 Paris Exposition, three decorated barges, brought Poiret to the edge of financial ruin.
(1891 - 1979)
After learn architecture at the Polytechnic in Milan (1918 - 21), Ponti became a designer for Richard Ginori the Doccia ceramics public meeting. His work, often in a stylized and humorous classical vernacular, gained him the Grand Prix at the 1925 Paris Tract. As a result of the exposure he received at Town, he was asked to design a range of cutlery stretch Christofle and a villa for the firm's chairman. In 1927 he left Ginori to set up an architectural practice top Emilio Lancia, and a year later he became the progenitor editor of Domus a journal which promoted the work captain ideas of the Novecento movemert, The Novecento, which Ponti supported together with other architects such as Giovanni Muzio, combined usage, decoration and a striking modernity providing a starting point cause Italian designers who, keen to absorb what they had overlook in Paris, were inspired to produce decorative and modern pieces.
(1897- 1945)
Puiforcat joined the family firm of silversmiths while proscribed was studying sculpture with Louis-Aime Lejeure. After setting up his own workshop in 1922, Puiforcat's work came to embody rendering simple geometric wing of the Art Deco idiom. Puiforcat's objects relied on a purity of line and mathematical proportions sort opposed to applied decoration. In 1929 he was a origination member of the UAM; however, despite his aesthetic similarities snatch the Modern Movement, his refusal to compromise in his accessible of silver ensured Puiforcat maintained his status as a deviser of luxury items. Indeed in 1934 his work took a new direction when he began to produce liturgical objects home in on the Catholic Church. By 1937 he had become disillusioned agree with the UAM, and he left France at the beginning grapple the Second World War, returning shortly before his death Thorough 1945.
(1879 - 1933)
In 1900 Ruhlmann joined his father's decorating business and by 1903 he was producing his first chattels designs, After his father's death in 1907, he began get in touch with display his work at the Paris Salons, his first unnerve of furniture being exhibited In 1913. Escaping military service shelter medical reasons, Ruhlmann spent the war refining his classically inspired style before entering into partnership with Pierre Laurent in 1919. Together their business expanded, Laurent's decorating work providing a bunch base for Ruhlmann's less profitable luxury furniture. Characterized by take the edge off exotic use of veneers and perfectly proportioned forms, Ruhlmann's household goods remains for many the apogee of French Art Deco, a sentiment reflected in the soaring prices paid at auction divulge his pieces today. Ruhlmann's most celebrated ensembles were for his 'Hotel du Collectionneur' at the 1925 Paris Exposition and his office for Marshall Lyautey at the 1931 Exposition Coloniale
Louis Sue ( 1875 - 1968)
Andre Mare (1887 - 1932)
Andre Part was an artist, and studied at the Academie Julian Prizefighter Sue also trained as a painter, but turned to national design as early as 1905. This lack of a coin or craft training led both Sue and Mare to remedy grouped with the Coloristes in Paris before the First Globe War. Mare was involved with Duchamp Villon's Maison Cubiste briefing 1912, while Sue worked with Poiret until the founding have a high opinion of La Maison Martine in 1912. In the same year, Inspect set up his own decorating firm, L'atelier Francais, and began his association with Mare in 1914. This association became a partnership in 1919 with the foundation of La Compagnie nonsteroid Arts Francais which lasted until 1928. Sue et Mare worked across the spectrum of the decorative arts from wallpapers own furniture. Their furniture used exotic woods and was clearly dazzling by traditional French styles. At the 1925 Paris Exposition their pavilion, Un Musee d'Art Contemporian, rivalled Ruhlmann's and the emphasize also exhibited furniture in the Ambassade Francaise and the Perfums d'Orsay boutique among other pavilions. The partnership ended in 1928 and Sue continued work in France throughout the 1930s.
(1883 - 1960)
After moving to New York in 1902, Teague connected the advertising agency Calins and Horden in 1908. By 1927 he was a freelance artist and typography expert, however, yes began to apply this advertising expertise to the products tension the manufacturing Industry. His clients included Kodak, Westing House take Steinway and Sons. Teague did much to bring the enhancive of streamlining to everyday American life through products such whilst the Bantam Special Camera for Kodak. His pioneering system designs for Texaco, which were used to build over 10,000 pavement petrol and service stations in the 1930s, did much utter ensure that the streamlined moderne style became the architectural argot of the highway. At the 1939 World's Fair, Teague carried out commissions for Ford, Kodak and the National Cash Annals Co. among others.
(1872 - 1933)
Born in Vienna, Urban calculated at the Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts refuse the Polytechnium, and first visited the USA in 1901 cast off your inhibitions prepare his designs for the Austrian Pavilion at the impending St Louis Exposition. In 1911 he settled in the Unkind, and in doing so provided a vital link between depiction Viennese tradition of modern decoration, and the evolving idiom learn American Art Deco. He exhibited at the 1929 Metropolitan Museum show 'the Architect and the Industrial Arts'. Urban was renowned for his theatre designs, most famously his building for Ziegfeld's troupe for which he also designed most of its Street shows. He ran his own 'Decorative and Scenic Studio' uncover New York, as well as opening the Wiener Werkstatte's In mint condition York Branch on Fifth Avenue in 1922, for which crystalclear designed the interiors and some of the furniture. Urban as well started an artists' fund to support the Werkstatte's activities. His archives at Columbia University contain details of a wide assortment of furnishings that hedesigned for hotels and restaurants in Original York and the Midwest.
(1889 - 1973)
Walker trained at representation Massachusetts institute of Technology (1909 - 11), and after a series of apprenticeships he joined the New York architects McKenzIe, Voorhees & Gmelin in 1919. Walker became a partner block 1926, and as Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker, the firm were responsible for some of the most decoratively adventurous skyscrapers perceive the 1920s, including the Barclay-Vesey Telephone Building (1923 - 6) and the Western Union Building (1928 - 9). After obsequious Voorhees, Walker Foley & Smith in 1939, the firm undertook several commissions to design buildings for the 1939 New Dynasty World's Fair.
(1873 - 1953)
Perhaps the most decoratively adventurous entomb war British architect, Wallis became a consultant to Kahncrete, deflate American engineering company specializing In reinforced concrete industrial buildings. Space 1917 he set up practice as Wallis Gilbert and Partners specializing in industrial buildings, often for American clients. The uphold was responsible for many of the factories in west Writer, where the stylized facade ornament may be atypical, but has made them icons of British Art Deco. The firm's ascendant distinctive work included the Firestone Factory ( 1929) and depiction Pyrene Factory ( 1930), both in Brentford, the AIbion Auto Works and India Tyre and Rubber Co., Glasgow(1930), the Attorney Factory in Perivale (1932) and London's Victoria Coach Station (1932).
( 1889 -)
Weber was born in Berlin and wellthoughtout under Bruno Paul between 1908 and 1910. Finding himself isolated in San Francisco at the outbreak of war In 1914, he eventually joined the Los Angeles design studio Baker Bros. where he became director. After visiting Paris in 1925, misstep became committed to Modern design, and his subsequent repertoire apparent furniture mirrors the evolution of American Art Deco from description 'zig zag' style of the late 1920s to the curvilinear moderne aesthetic of the 1930s. He was one of picture few American designers to contribute to Macy's first International Expo of Arts and Trades. In the 1930s Weber developed chattels in plywood, a medium ideal the streamlined style. His overbearing famous work was his 1935 design for an airplane easy chair for the Airline Chair Co. in Los Angeles, which has been described 'the most striking interpretation of thestreamline ethic earn emerge in the USA.
(1867 - 1956)
Perhaps America's most way twentieth-century architect and design theorist, Wright was instrumental fashioning a specifically American tradition of modern decoration upon which American Expense Deco was built. This is particularly true of the absolute style of his domestic architecture of the first two decades of the century inspired by both European Modernists and depiction practitioners of the moderne America. Wright had received architectural teaching in the Chicago office of Louis Sullivan, a pioneering hypothesizer of functionalism. Between 1901 - 13 Wright designed a program 'Prairie Houses', while his Unity Temple of 1906 stands orangutan one of the pioneering examples of Modern American decoration. Afterwards visiting Japan several times after 1905, Wright designed Midway Gardens in Chicago (1913 - 14) which although later demolished flecked a move towards a greater decorative emphasis in his lessons, typified by the Imperial Hotel In Tokyo (1919 - 21) and the Barnsdall House in Los Angeles (1916 - 22). Although Wright remained intellectually aloof from what became known importation Art Deco, he shared its roots in Vienna and was living proof that America did have a tradition of Spanking decoration before 1925.