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- 21.5 x 25.5 cm
- 128 pages
- 160 black and white and color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8379-1
- Text in French only
Janine Janet's work is linked to the Paris high society of the '50s and '60s. Her childhood on Reunion Island developed her baroque imagination, and a taste for mother-of-pearl, madrepores, shells, bark and stones. Subjecting them to strange metamorphoses, she created naiads, fauns, unicorns and other enchantments with a technique that relates to the art of the tablet maker, the bookbinder or the rock maker. Her classical training gave her an excellent mastery of plastic techniques. Balenciaga, Givenchy, Balmain, and Nina Ricci entrusted her with their windows. Jean Cocteau commissioned the costumes, masks and sculptures for The Testament of Orpheus from her. She designed sets for Francine Weisweiller, Paul-Louis Weiller and Prince Ali Khan, created a Venus in gilded bronze for Queen Elizabeth II, and designed models for the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, Haviland and Arthus-Bertrand. Illustrated with her watercolor projects, and photos by Brassaï, Lucien Clergue and Roland Beaufre, this book reveals the richness of a designer who marked a privileged moment in French decorative arts.