Ricardo Bofill. Les Années françaises

Arts & Photography

Champenois, Michèle

Serrell, Dominique

Architecture

Editions Norma

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)

Favardin, Patrick

• The first monograph dedicated to René Prou, a central figure of Art Deco • Contains around 400 documents and photographs René Prou (1889-1947), an ensemblier and decorator, was - alongside Ruhlmann, Leleu, Dunand, Subes and Brandt - a central figure of the Art Deco movement. Trained at Gouffé, in Paris, in the 1910s, Prou took part in most of the Salons d'Automne and the Salons des artistes décorateurs before commanding attention at the Exposition international des arts décoratifs of 1925. Firmly established by major public and private commissions, his talent as an ensemblier was expressed as much in the decoration of ocean liners - Cuba (1923), Lafayette (1928), Paris (1929) - as in the fitting out of the sleeper cars of the Orient Express; the Palace of Nations in Geneva, where he worked alongside José-Maria Sert, with whom he also collaborated at the Waldorf Astoria in New York; and the furnishing of the Mitsubishi department stores in Tokyo. His style, defined by the curve of his metal leg blended with a joyous ornamentation, rejuvenated and lightened the full and massive forms of Art Deco while preserving harmony, comfort and a certain idea of simple luxury. Director of the École de l'Union centrale des arts décoratifs, in Paris, in 1946, his influence marked many postwar talents, including Jean Royère. Text in English and French.

Rene Prou (English and French Edition)

Bony, Anne

Abecassis, Gavriella

Individual Artists

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<li>An exceptional anthology, which proposes a panorama of the evolution of crafts from 1945 to the present day</li>
<li>Brings together a selection of over 70 texts from five continents.</li>
</ul>This exceptional anthology, which proposes a panorama of the evolution of crafts from 1945 to the present day, brings together a selection of over 70 texts from five continents. These texts are chosen and commented on by Chloé Braustein-Kriegel, a design specialist and critic, and Fabien Petiot, an art historian and designer. This new research is a genuine theoretical and practical tool for specialists and amateurs alike throughout the world. Calling on a huge network of experts, writers, critics, academics, journalists and artists, whose articles have been published in reviews such as Crafts Magazine, The Journal of Modern Art and The Journal of Design History, the authors present a diversity of viewpoints that permit the reader to go into depth on all the aspects of this multiform subject: the relationship between crafts and the many creation fields such as design and architecture, and the place of know-how in today's society. This anthology also makes it possible to place these contemporary questions in a historical perspective. A selection of authors: Charlotte Benton, Andrea Branzi, Alberto Cavalli, Garth Clark, Edmund Wim Delvoye, De Waal, Marie Douglas, Enzo Mari Stefano Micelli, Louise Schouwenberg, Patricia Woods.

Crafts: Today's Anthology for Tomorrow's Crafts

Petiot, Fabien

Braunstein-Kriegel, Chloe

History & Criticism

•The complete works of Jacques Majorelle, an orientalist painter of the 20th century •1050 works have been documented by Félix and Amélie Marcilhac •With paintings inspired by scenes from Sudan, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Morocco, this book collects Majorelle's fascinating (and occasionally exoticising) depictions of north-west African life Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) is an emblematic figure of Orientalism. The son of the cabinet-maker Louis Majorelle, he trained at the École nationale des Beaux-arts appliqués of Nancy then in Paris, at the Académie Julian. Majorelle traveled through Spain, Egypt and Italy, starting from 1908. In 1917 he moved to Morocco. There, he developed a singular chromatic language which gave him a place divested of all influences among his contemporaries. Landscapes, bazaar scenes, and portraits, he based his art around the city of Marrakech where he lived, as well as across the rest of Morocco. He gathered inspiration from his many trips to Sudan, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire, amassing a considerable oeuvre of over 1,000 works in which light, colour and a certain viewpoint on exoticism played a decisive role.

Jacques Majorelle

Marcilhac, Félix

•An impressive rethinking of the core of Paris by star architect Dominique PerraultThe historical centre of Paris, the Ile de la Cité, is notably home to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital, Notre-Dame cathedral, Saint-Chapelle, the Palais de justice law court and the flower market. The core of Paris remains, however, largely unknown. In December 2015, Dominique Perrault, architect of the Bibliothèque nationale de France on the François-Mitterrand and the renovation of the Dufour Pavilion at the Château de Versailles, and Philippe Bélaval, president of the Centre des monuments nationaux, presented a reflection on rethinking the Ile de la Cité with a timeline of 2040. How can this Unesco World Heritage Site, abandoned by Parisians, be modernised and acquire a breath of life and mobility? With its rich collection of archival documents, engravings, maps and photographs, the book highlights the island's various renovation and redevelopment projects imagined throughout history, while questioning its current role. To integrate this exceptional site into the city of tomorrow, Dominique Perrault and Philippe Bélaval have imagined 35 proposals that give the island back a central place, notably thanks to the promotion of its exceptional heritage, a revamping of the circulation between its different centres of gravity and the development of its substrata and its foundations as well as its riverside paths.Text in English and French.

Paris. Île de la Cité 2040 (English and French Edition)

Perrault, Dominique

Belaval, Philippe

- Forty of Martin Szekely's elegant and enigmatic designs are documented in this catalog for an exhibition at the mus e des Arts d coratifs et du Design (MADD - Bordeaux) from 26 April to 7 October 2018 - All the furniture has been created between 1996 and 2018, offering an up-to-date perspective on his career French designer Martin Szekely's enigmatic furniture and objects are the result of formal structural challenges, observation, and analysis. Experimenting with both new and traditional materials, he approaches each project as a new inquiry into the essence of the built world. The designer's furniture and objects are embodiments of his meditations on the nature of balance, and are based on data concerning mass, gravity and networks of forces, most often invisible to the naked eye. For Szekely, building is the very essence of the designer's profession: "I see my practice from the builder's perspective, considering the use that will be made of my construction; this immediately involves the user, his body and his environment." What is built - which is the designer's domain unlike the artist for whom ideas suffice - calls on the history of structures and the technologies that underlie them. This catalog, for a show of forty pieces at the musee des Arts d coratifs et du Design, highlights Szekely's elegant mix of craftsmanship and high tech, raw materiality and high culture. Text in English and French. Published to accompany the exhibition at the MADD, Bordeaux, France, 26 April-7 October 2018.

Martin Szekely. Construction

Rubini, Constance

Balmond, Cecil

Decorative Arts & Design

Les multiples talents de PIERRE-ÉMILE LEGRAIN (1888-1929), designer, architecte d’intérieur, relieur, encadreur, paysagiste, en font un personnage aussi mystérieux que recherché des bibliophiles, amateurs de beaux-arts et collectionneurs de meubles d’exception. Formé par Paul Iribe, Pierre Legrain fait la rencontre décisive de Jacques Doucet en 1912. Il crée pour le couturier près de 400 reliures, de nombreux cadres pour son exceptionnelle collection d’art moderne – notamment celui des Demoiselles d’Avignon –, ainsi qu’une série de meubles africano-cubistes. Membre de l’UAM, dont il dessine le logo, Legrain fréquente André Breton, Paul Éluard, Jean Cocteau, les sculpteurs Gustave Miklos et Henri Laurens, le peintre Francis Picabia, ou encore la modiste Jeanne Tachard pour laquelle il dessine un jardin. Son oeuvre rare – une centaine de meubles et quelques aménagements intérieurs – est aujourd’hui dispersée dans des musées ou des collections privées à travers le monde. Première monographie transversale sur ce créateur hors normes, cet ouvrage restaure le fil de sa vie, ses nombreuses rencontres avec les avant-gardes artistiques et ses réalisations dans tous les domaines, soulignant les liens formels existant entre son travail d’ensemblier, de relieur et de dessinateur. À travers l’entourage de Legrain – amis et commanditaires –, il présente le contexte artistique exceptionnel dans lequel cette oeuvre si singulière a pu éclore.

Pierre Legrain (French Edition)

Salmon, Laurence

• A lavishly illustrated book on Russian-born architect and artist André Beloborodoff, and the first monograph published on his work From imperial Russia to the Rome of the 1960s, the work of architect, painter and scenographer André Beloborodoff (1886-1965) expresses his unique vision of the history of modernity. An enlightened Palladian, Beloborodoff designed palaces, châteaux and villas for Café Society patrons using modern construction techniques, such as reinforced concrete. The interior design of the Yusupov palace in Saint Petersburg, the Caulaincourt château in Picardy, and the Villa Pepoli for Maurice Sandoz in Rome - built at the same time as Le Corbusier's Cité radieuse - are witnesses to his timeless, stripped-down and refined classicism. He won the Prix de Rome in 1934, and subsequently spent many years living and working in Italy. Many of his architectural ideals are found in his metaphysical and surrealist paintings and watercolors, highly praised by Paul Valéry, Mario Praz, Henri de Régnier, and Jean-Louis Vaudoyer. His atmospheric vistas of sunken or vanished worlds recall the edifices that Beloborodoff, eternally rootless, was never able to build. Text in French.

Andre Beloborodoff: Architecte, peintre, scénographe (French Edition)

Texier, Simon

von Neipperq, Eugénie

Trained in the Age of Enlightenment, Lequeu (1757-1826), son of a modest carpenter from Rouen, briefly enjoyed the final years of Anglo-Chinese parks and aristocratic celebrations, before they were swept away by the Revolution. Reduced to a junior office clerk, he uncompromisingly pursued his ambition as an artist. His imagination is full of bookish references, such as The Dream of Poliphilus. He dreams of sumptuous monuments, fictitious factories, and imagined landscapes of invention. Beyond architecture, his gallery is enriched by a disturbing series of selfportraits, grimacing figures, erotic paintings and raw anatomical details. Six months before his disappearance into destitution and oblivion, he bequeathed his unique and fascinating graphic work to the Bibliothèque Royale in Paris. This exceptional ensemble gives us a unique insight, both vivid and deviant, into an extraordinary time, and allows us to follow Lequeu on his obsessive and solitary course. Text in French.

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (French Edition)

Baridon, Laurent

Garric, Jean-Philippe

Guedron, Martial

Le Bitouzé, Corinne

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