Jacques Adnet

Jacques Adnet was an architect and decorator of the 20th century, born on April 20th 1900 with Châtillon-Coligny, dead on October 24th 1984. He worked with Jean, his twin brother who received a formation identical to his and, under a common signature until in 1928, receive the same rewards.

Biography

  • Follows its course to the national school of the Art schools of Paris
  • 1923: Exposure in various French and foreign fairs.
  • 1925 : It has its own stand on the esplanade of the Invalids to the exposure of decorative Arts
  • 1927 to 1959: Director of the Company of French Arts where it succeeds Süe and Pond founder of the company. It designs pieces of furniture whose style is clearly influenced by architecture, rationalism, functionalism and the cubism. In parallel, it is devoted to ceramics, the tapestry and the ironwork, using smooth volumes, of the arrises and a certain stylization.
  • 1937 : Grand Prix of architecture and overall movable for the House of Holy Glass Gobain to the World Fair of Paris.
  • 1947 with 1949: President of the Living room of the artists decorators (SAD).
  • Years 1950: It creates pieces of furniture, it decorates the house with Frank Jay Gould, the studio of the President of the French Republic to the castle of Rambouillet, the private apartments of president Vincent Auriol in the Elysium, and much of steamers like Ferdinand de Lesseps (1952), UNESCO (1958).
  • 1958 : Grand Prix of the International exhibition of Brussels.
  • 1959 : Director of the National school of Decorative Arts of Paris.

Its pieces of furniture

It creates a geometrical furniture of form with new materials while keeping a preoccupation with an elegance which is clean for him, establishing the link between modernity, and the tradition.

With the wire of time, it uses more and more metal and glass with which it manufactures seats, bedside tables out of tube, but also of the small pieces of furniture entirely made up of plated mirror glass and screwed on a reinforcement. It gives up the old forms which it does not even try to adapt.

There will however remain faithful to certain types of pieces of furniture like the pieces of furniture of support in innumerable variations.

Museum

Space Landowski 28, Avenue André-Morizet 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt

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