Pierre Chareau

Modern Architecture and Design

Esther da Costa Meyer

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Yale University Press
09 September 2024

Individual designers; Furniture design; Individual architects & architectural firms; Professional interior design

Now back in print, a revealing look at the visionary French furniture designer and architect, highlighting his virtuoso designs and versatile creativity

""Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design adds even more depth and breadth to the architect's deserved reputation for creative virtuosity.""—Julie V. Iovine, Wall Street Journal

""[A]n exceptionally informative, readable catalog.""—Roberta Smith, New York Times

The designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883–1950) was a pivotal figure in modernism. His extraordinary Art Deco furniture is avidly collected and his visionary glass house, the Maison de Verre, is celebrated, but the breadth of his design genius has been little explored. Chareau linked architecture, fine arts, and style; designed furniture for avant-garde films and chic homes; collected artists such as Picasso and Mondrian; and was a radical innovator in the use of materials. This revealing look at the visionary French designer highlights his virtuosity and versatile creativity. Essays by leading scholars embrace the full scope of his invention, offering detailed analyses of individual projects, the interdisciplinary nature of his work, his Jewish background, his place in the avant-garde of Paris between the wars, and his more recent reception. Extensive illustrations present a rich sampling of Chareau's furniture, architecture, interiors, fabrics, and wallpapers, as well as his own important art collection.

Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York

By: Esther da Costa Meyer
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 292mm, Width: 241mm,
ISBN: 9780300277852
ISBN 10: 0300277857
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 09 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Esther da Costa Meyer is professor emerita of modern architecture at Princeton University. Bernard Bauchet is an architect and scholar based in Paris. Olivier Cinqualbre is chief curator of architecture at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Jean-Louis Cohen was Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Robert M. Rubin is an independent scholar and curator. Kenneth E. Silver is professor of modern and contemporary art at New York University. Brian Brace Taylor was professor of architectural history and theory at the New York Institute of Technology.

Reviews for Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design

“Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design adds even more depth and breadth to the architect’s deserved reputation for creative virtuosity.”—Julie V. Iovine, Wall Street Journal “[A]n exceptionally informative, readable catalog.”—Roberta Smith, New York Times Winner of the 2017 Henry Allen Moe Prize by the Fenimore Art Museum