Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann

Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann (1879-1933) is a Décorateur and French, known interior designer in particular for the quality of its pieces of furniture out of wooden.

Biography

Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann is resulting from a Protestant family of Alsace established in Paris in 1870. He works, very young person, in the company of painting and mirror manufacture which his/her father has since 1876. After the death of the EC-last, it succeeds to him in 1907. This same year, its taste for furniture appears with drawings of pieces of furniture that it intends for its own apartment and some friends.

From 1910, it appears in the Living room of Fall, but it is with that of 1913 that the extraordinary career is profiled which will be his.

It joins Pierre Laurent in 1919. Four years later, it opens its own workshop of cabinet work, without counting workshops of lacquer, painting, tapestry, etc

Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann forever practiced itself the trade of cabinetmaker, but it conceived each one of its pieces of furniture and personally followed from there the development and manufacture.

In 1925, to the Exposure of Decorative Arts, an entire house is entrusted to the famous decorator: the Hotel of the Collector , which it makes build by his friend the architect Pierre Patout and that decorates, on the frontage, a vast plank in low-relief of the sculptor Joseph Bernard.

In 1927, Ruhlmann decorates the village hall and the room with the deliberations of the chamber of commerce of Paris, Avenue of Friedland, as well as the living room of the of the steamer the Ile-de-France .

At the end of the Twenties, the geometrical and stripped forms pieces of furniture are accentuated, and the functional fitting of the pieces of furniture of this time is often very thorough. It incorporates all kinds of accessories in it: telephone, luminary, bars foot-warmer, control board for lighting, the opening of the doors and the shutters, inter alia.

It designs interior decorations and pieces of furniture for the Elys3ee palace, for the presidency of the National Assembly, the town hall of the Ve district of Paris, for that of Puteaux, for several ministries, the museum of France of overseas to the colonial Exposure of 1931 (it is the office reception of the Minister for the Colonies, always in place in the Palais of the Gilded Door).

Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann dies in 1933 with Paris. As it had required, its firm does not survive to him.

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