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A key figure in the Art Deco movement, Jean Dunand (1877-1942) stands out with his multiple talents as a sculptor, goldsmith, coppersmith, and also as a lacquerer, bookbinder and decorator. After excelling in creating hammer-mounted vases and brassware, in 1912 he met Seizo Sugawara, who led him to develop a passion for lacquer, which would become his signature on vases as well as on panels, furniture and bindings.
As the head of an important workshop, he participated in the major international exhibitions of his time, in Paris in 1925, 1931 and 1937, and in New York in 1939, and his work was regularly exhibited at the Georges Petit gallery and at the Salon des artistes decorateurs. His singularity and the quality of his creations led him to become one of the most sought-after portraitists, immortalizing personalities from the world of fashion and the arts, such as Jeanne Lanvin, Louiseboulanger and Joséphine Baker, as well as from the world of finance, such as Lazard, Carnegie or Louis-Dreyfus.
Jean Dunand also worked on remarkable décors in France and in the United States, such as Solomon R. Guggenheim's music lounge, and the apartments of Madame Agnès and Charles Templeton Crocker, as well as on the shipyards of the liners L'Atlantique or Normandie which crowned a rich career of more than two thousand works, presented in a repertoire at the end of the book.
Format 25x30.5 cm, hardcover
416 pages
2000 illustrations
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