The revival of the decorative arts in post-war France is extremely diverse, from the 40's style which endures through official orders to classical or neoclassical furniture whose success is unprecedented. Modernity remains a battle taken up by the young generation of decorators presented in this book. Their approach responds to the needs and aspirations of a country undergoing reconstruction, with the extraordinary vitality that characterized the time. An introduction, which emphasizes the combination of aesthetics, fantasy and rigor of this abundant French creation, is followed by four parts, each preceded by an introduction that defines the historical context: the masters of the interwar period. the representatives of a '50s style - in freedom, playful and freed from any discourse in "ism" the great figures of Reconstruction. their spiritual sons. In addition to these 33 monographs, Patrick Favardin analyzes the establishment of a publishing and distribution structure, with manufacturers such as Airborne, Les Huchers-Minvielle or Steiner, galleries such as Steph Simono or MAI or even the Salons. This book includes 33 monographs of : Adnet, Arbus, Gueden, Matégot, Old, Poillerat, Quinet, Raphaël, Royère, Dumond, Gabriel, Gascoin, Gautier, Hitier, Landault, Laverrière, Perriand, Pré, Renoud & Génisset, Sognot, Abraham & Rol, ARP, Caillette, Dangles & Defrance, Fatus, Gautier-Delaye, Guariche, Monpoix, Mortier, Motte, Paulin, Philippon & lecoq, Richard, Atleiers Prouvé, Pierre Disderot... Text in French.

Décorateurs des années 50 (French Edition)

Arts & Photography

Favardin, Patrick

Architecture

Editions Norma

Les années 50 (Les carnets du chineur) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Éditions du Chêne

Artiste d’origine française, Nicola L. vit depuis les années 1960 entre Paris et New York, où elle s’installe en 1979. Elle trouve dans cette ville à l’avant-garde des mouvements artistiques une atmosphère en accord avec son travail : Pénétrables et performances des années 60, Manteau rouge de Mai 68, corps démembrés nés de sa révolte contre la guerre du Vietnam, qui aboutiront aux sculptures-objets en vinyle, bois ou Plexiglas. Joyeusement colorée, utilisant des matériaux nouveaux et des formes inédites, l’œuvre de Nicola L. est aujourd’hui une invitation, presque humaniste, à vivre autrement, dans un monde poétique qui dénonce les pratiques sociales par trop sclérosées de notre quotidien. Désormais tout devient affaire de rencontres, de compagnons de route, d’engagements de toutes sortes, avec en toile de fond une générosité, qui fait du nomadisme l’étendard d’un mode futur où liberté rime avec fantaisie. Exposées dans le monde entier, ses œuvres ont été présentées en France dans les années 60 et 70 à la galerie Templon et à la galerie Germain.

Nicola L. (French Edition)

Norma

Mathieu Matégot was a leading French designer of the 1950s. This artist of Hungarian origin was highly productive over a period of some twenty years, experimenting with materials, form and color both in his furniture designs and in the art of tapestry-making, which he practiced into the 1980s. He invented his own artistic language, whose key elements were rigitulle, a type of perforated sheet metal, which he patented and which, by means of a system of folds, enabled him to shape his perforated metal in space, as well as férotin, a balanced blending of metal and rattan. He commercialised his furniture abroad through his own company, notably in the UK and the Netherlands, and in the 1950s regularly participated in the major trade shows, such as the Salon des arts ménagers (domestic arts trade fair) and the Salon des artistes décorateurs (Interior decorators trade fair). He designed many significant public and private commissions: part of the Drugstore des Champs-Élysées, the layout of the airport of Tit-Mellil in Casablanca, and many tapestries for Air France, the French consulate in New York, etc. This book provides a detailed overview of his entire career, thanks to a number of documents from the period, especially those made available in his family archives. It helps to better understand the inspiration for his creations and most importantly to rediscover a rich and varied body of work. Text in English and French.

Mathieu Matégot

The 1960s and 1970s marked a sharp turning point in the history of decoration and furniture. Until that point, the world was confined to national and elitist forms of expression. At the beginning of the 1960s, the sector took its inspiration from Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Italian and French decoration. Genres were combined in a frenzied desire to live in symbiosis with one's time. The progress of technology strengthened the conviction that the individual had unlimited freedom and aroused the desire to inhabit in a new manner. Forms became rounder, furniture was in sync with a warm, playful, and anticonformist universe. Colors and decorative motifs took on the brilliance and fantasies of Pop Art and psychedelia. The living environment was transformed into a waking dream in which luxurious furniture in original materials and surprising objects were mixed, associated, for the first time, with early furniture. The end of the 1970s marked the advent of a period in which beauty and classic elegance gave way to a host of expressions that were unclassifiable and rejected any hierarchy. The postmodern period had arrived. Composed of a long introduction that provides a synoptic view and 32 monographs that describe its many faces, this book invites the reader to discover an exceptionally creative period and revels through an abundant iconography.

The Decorators of the 1960s and 1970s

Bloch-Champfort, Guy

History & Criticism

• The first comprehensive monograph on Abraham &amp; Rol, legendary designers of the second half of the 20th century • Includes a mix of contemporary and '50s and '60s photographs • This book includes examples of their architectural work, previously unknown to the public "It is a rare species, but it exists," as '60s art critic Pascal Renous pointed out on the subject of artistic couples. The designer-decorator duo of Janine Abraham and Dirk-Jan Rol met at Jacques Dumond's studio in 1955. The couple shared the same love of precision, line and plain colors. Their earliest joint creations were first exhibited at the Salon des artistes décorateurs, in Paris. Their furniture, made of wicker, wood and aluminum, twice won prizes at the Salon des artistes décorateurs (a sideboard in 1956 and an armchair in 1958), garnering notice from the public and professionals alike. Jean Royère did not hesitate to use their emblematic Soleil armchair (gold medal at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair) in the decoration of the palace of the shah of Iran, in Teheran. Their light and functional designs are available today, re-edited by Yota Design. Abraham &amp; Rol were also interior designers for both individual and large corporate clients, such as Yves Rocher and Saint-Gobain, with the same precision and sense of composition that define their furniture pieces. The couple also expressed their creativity through architecture, their mastery of this discipline enabling them to design some twenty houses from the 1960s through the 2000s in the Île-de-France region. Their homes are genuine inhabited sculptures, of which certain have become truly emblematic.

Abraham & Rol

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