Pierre Chareau

Pierre Chareau , born the August 4th 1883 with Bordeaux and dead the August 24th 1950 with New York (the USA), was a Architecte and Designer French.

Pierre Chareau was with Le Corbusier, in France, one of the modern first Architectes, using new materials, such as the Verre or the Acier. He was member of the international Congrès of modern architecture.

He realizes, 31, rue Saint Guillaume with Paris, for Doctor Dalsace, his major work, the Maison of Glass (1928-1931), made up of three stages, designed like a total space, whose frontage on court is completely glazed: a woven metal structure supports panels in paving stones of glass. While the rooms are insulated by door-wall cupboards, out of wood or metal, which slide or swivel. The structure (steel beams and joists), the drains and conduits remain visible and take part in architecture, thus transforming the utility elements of the house into decorative elements.

It also took part in the creation of decorations for films of Marcel the Herbarium: Inhuman the (1924), the Giddiness (1927) and the Money (1928).

Pierre Chareau leaves into 1939 to the United States.

In Design, it carries out pieces of furniture out of metal and wooden, whose form makes it possible to evoke a true “Chareau style”.

Principal achievements

the 1927-31 House of Glass Photographs
the 1926-27 club-house of the golf of Beauvallon (VAr)
1927 interior Installation of the Large Hotel of Turns
1932 Offices from company LTT in Paris
1947 Workshop of the painter Robert Motherwell in East Hampton, the United States

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