Marc du Plantier

In this first monograph dedicated to Marc du Plantier (1901-1975), major decorator of the 20^th century, art historian Yves Badetz picks up the thread of his work through his sketchbooks and letters to his wife, in which he related details of his installations. After training as an architect at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and as a painter at the Julian Academy, Marc du Plantier began his career in 1928. His architectural vocabulary began to emerge from his first projects, characterized by rigorous lines, the use of colors, indirect lighting and play of mirrors. Art which reached its peak on rue du Belvédère, where Anne and Marc du Plantier received the high society of 1930s Paris. Next, the apartment overlooking the bay of Algiers, seen as one of the peaks of decoration of its time, the Madrid palaces where, from 1938 to 1949, he developed a remarkable neoclassicism, the Parisian apartments from the 1950s, the French embassy lounge in Ottawa. At the beginning of the 1960s, the disappearance of private orders pushed the designer to settle in Mexico, where he founded the company Artedecor, then in Los Angeles, before returning to Paris by the Orient route. This contact with American pop art gave rise to the work he developed in 1968, creating models from new materials, intended for publication by the Lacloche gallery, or for Maurice Rheims’ dining room, without ever departing from his classical rigor.

• Size: 23 x 30.5 cm
• 416 pages
• 600 color and black & white illustrations
• Hardcover under dust jacket
• ISBN: 978-2-9155-4232-5

Text in French only