Pair of armchairs Art Déco

Pair of armchairs

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Robert Mallet-Stevens studied at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris from 1903 to 1906. In 1912, he exhibited his works at the Salon d’Automne and met architects Pierre Chareau (1853-1950) and René Herbst. In 1913, he designed a villa for Madame Paquin in Deauville and developed projects for exhibitions in Grand Lyon, London, Brussels, and San Francisco. From 1920 to 1921, he designed sets for the films Jettatura by Pierre-Gilles Veber and Le Secret de Rosette Lambert by Raymond Bernard.

Mallet-Stevens received the commission for his first building, the Villa Noailles for Viscount Charles de Noailles in Hyères (Var department), in 1923. In 1924, he organized an exhibition of the Dutch artistic group De Stijl. The following year, he built the Alfa-Romeo showroom on Rue Marbeuf and the Pavillon du Tourisme at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes. From 1926 to 1927, he built the residential houses on Rue Mallet-Stevens in Auteuil (Paris). He founded the Union des Artistes Modernes in 1929 and designed the apartment of Tamara de Lempicka on Rue Méchain in the same year.

Mallet-Stevens built a townhouse for his friend, artist Louis Barillet, on Square de Vergennes in Paris (15th arrondissement) in 1932 and a large villa in Croix for an industrialist. In 1930, he built a distillery in Istanbul, the Café du Brésil on Boulevard Haussmann, and a restaurant in the Grasse theater (Alpes-Maritimes department). He also collaborated with painter Fernand Léger in 1923 to design the sets for the film L’Inhumaine by Marcel L’Herbier. He planned pavilions for the 1937 World’s Fair, two of which were decorated by Robert Delaunay.

Robert Mallet-Stevens died on February 8, 1945, in Paris and was buried in the Cimetière de Passy. Source: Internet.

Art Deco at RSA Wiesbaden

You can find more Art Deco cabinets, Art Deco chests of drawers and Art Deco lamps in my shop in Wiesbaden. Regine Schmitz-Avila – your specialist for French Art Deco furniture and art objects from around 1930.