Robert mallet stevens biography

Brief Biography Robert Mallet-Stevens was.
Robert Mallet-Stevens (24 March 1886 – 8 February 1945) was a French architect and designer.
Robert Mallet-Stevens played an important role in French modernism at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Robert Mallet-Stevens

Centre Pompidou, Paris
27 April–29 August 2005

Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945) has, in many ways, been forgotten outside of Paris, and to those who have studied his work, he is often described as a relatively unimportant architect in comparison with Le Corbusier and other modernists. At the Pompidou Centre, in summer 2005, his work was resurrected from the dust and given the platform to be criticised afresh. Sixty years after his death at the end of World War Two, he has finally been given a wider audience.

Very much an Art Deco designer, Mallet-Stevens exhibited in the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris - he designed film sets and grand interiors as well as buildings. The main attraction of this exhibition are his illustrations, but his colour drawings and simple, black and white diagrams are also featured. His 'Ideal City' is particularly interesting and aesthetically attractive: the collection of individual buildings includes a school and a hospital, among other expected features. Although they are pretty

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Robert Mallet-Stevens

French architect and designer (1886–1945)

Robert Mallet-Stevens (24 March 1886 – 8 February 1945) was a French architect and designer.

Early life

Mallet-Stevens was born in Paris. His father and his grandfather were art collectors in Paris and Brussels. His great-uncles were the Belgian painters Joseph Stevens and Alfred Stevens.

He received his formal training at the École spéciale d'Architecture in Paris between 1903 and 1906. He was primarily interested in collaboration between different art forms according to the precepts established by Viollet le Duc who had created the school with Émile Trélat in 1865. At the school he wrote Guerande about relationships between the different forms of art.^[1]

Career

In 1924, Mallet-Stevens published a magazine called La Gazette Des 7 Arts and at the same time with the help of Ricciotto Canudo founded the Club des amis du 7ème art. A Paris street in the 16th arrondissement, Rue Mallet-Stevens, was built by him in the 1920s and has on it six houses designed by him.^[

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Robert Mallet-Stevens played an important role in French modernism at the beginning of the 20th century. While he practiced architecture within the mode of the International Style through his collaborations with artists, sculptors, film directors, painters, and furniture designers, he also developed a unique formal language.

Mallet-Stevens was the son of a prominent art expert associated with the Paris Impressionists. In 1905, he joined the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris where his interest quickly turned to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose organization of interior spaces he admired. The same year, his uncle Adolf Stoclet called on the Viennese architect Josef Hoffmann, a family friend, to build his main residence (the Palais Stoclet, Brussels). Hoffmann, along with Otto Wagner and the Vienna Secessionist movement, influenced Mallet-Stevens greatly. Encouraged by Francis Jourdain, his projects for furniture and interiors were exhibited in the Salon d’Automne, granting him access that allowed him to meet with the decorator Pierre Chareau and with the s