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Jean Royère (1902-1981) showed his taste for decoration at a very young age. At the age of thirty, after a brief career in finance, he made a brilliant start as a decorator. During his first few years, he bent to the constraints of functionalism, and proved himself perfectly suited to producing mass-produced furniture.
The boudoir that he presented at the Salon of Decorative Artists in 1939 provocatively marked the return of ornament. From the first motifs, such as the sinusoid, to biomorphic forms, Royère developed all the combinations of a very personal ornamental repertoire with great virtuosity. Attentive to contemporary creation, he discovered new forms among the Scandinavians and Italians at the end of the 1930s, the importance of which he understood and which would be decisive for the evolution of his work.
This book analyzes the considerable work of a man who, between 1931 and 1972, carried out more than a thousand projects around the world - from the development of the workers' town of Aplemont, in the north of France, to the decoration of the palace of the shah of Iran, using lightness and humor to create a style which completely broke with the past. This style, which so aptly evokes the era's desire for freedom, corresponds to certain very current aspirations and retains all of its seductiveness today.
• 23 x 30.5 cm
• 320 pages
• 500 illustrations
• Hardcover
• ISBN: 978-2-91554-2882
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