Maurice Daurat: Goldsmith and Art Deco Sculptor

Trained at the Germain-Pilon school of applied art, created under the Third Republic with the aim of reconciling art and industry, the goldsmith Maurice Daurat combines the sensitivity of an artist with the simplicity of a craftsman. Abandoning cast iron and chasing for hammer-mounting in the 1920s, Maurice Daurat worked with tin very early on; it was then a somewhat despised metal, whose qualities he would know how to exploit with a rare talent for creating unique pieces or very small series, but also monumental works, such as the vases of the Normandy ocean liner in 1935 or the 3.12-meter-high lighting vase for the Alma rotunda at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1937.

• Format: 230 x 300 mm
• Hardback cover
• ISBN: 978-2915-542219

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