Andre Mare

See also: Pond (homonymy)

André Mare (Nickel silver, 1885 - 1932) is a decorator, interior designer and painter French.

André Mare is one of the fathers of the Art Déco and it left a rich work and founder. Its formation is that of a painter, but starting from the Années 1910, it undertakes a career of decorator of interior. In 1912, to the Salon of autumn it presents, in collaboration with the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon and the painters Marie Laurencin and Roger of Fresnaye, a “house cubist”.

During the First World War, mobilized, it will work with the creation of the camouflages for the French Armies, British and Italian with his friend Fernand Leger and other painters - Open, Charles Camoin, Charles Dufresne (painter), Villon, Marcoussis -, sculptors - Henri Bouchard, Charles Despiau - and decorators of theater. It applied to the camouflage the principles of dislocation of the forms resulting from the cubism: juxtaposed bands of color prevent the eye from recognizing the shape of the gun and these let us tons are selected so that they merge with those of the surrounding landscape. During this time, it painted in ten notebooks of drawing of the many watercolours impressed of Cubisme, and in which the combat and death, even illustrated remotely and with a great sobriety, are sometimes present and allow him to express its distress symbolically.

In 1919, it founded the Compagnie of French Arts in partnership with Louis Süe, creator in 1912 of the French Atelier. They are interested in all that touches interior decoration with like objective proposing with the public serious units “, logical and accessible”. André Mare decorated furniture, the wallpapers, fabrics, with his famous “flowered baskets” and other sheaves of pinks, which became completely typical Années 1920. As example, Known & Mare will order from Charles Dufresne (painter) for the exposure of 1925, of the paperboards of tapestry for a furniture of living room (referred on sale public on www.drouot.fr) on the topic " Paul and Virginie" who will gain one big hit.

Total architect of interior, it installed, the residences of the dressmaker Jean Patou. He was also costumier and bookbinder.

Some works in the museums…

the Typist , oil on fabric, Museum of Bernay.

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