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Rob Mallet-Stevens
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 (painter), Joseph Stevens and Alfred Stevens (painter), Alfred Stevens. He received his formal training at the École Spéciale d'Architecture, 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 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, 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. 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 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Cavrois
Villa Cavrois in Croix, Nord, Croix is a large modernism, modernist mansion built in 1932 in architecture, 1932 by French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens for Paul Cavrois, an industrialist from Roubaix active in the textile industry. Context and genesis of the project Paul Cavrois (1890-1965) was a textile industrialist from northern France who owned modern factories for spinning, weaving and dyeing cotton and wool. In the early 1920s he bought a site located on the hill of Beaumont, in Croix, not far from his factories situated in Roubaix, in order to build a mansion able to receive his family of 7 children and the servants. Originally the architect and town-planner Jacques Greber was charged with the project, who suggested a house in the regionalist style, in vogue at that period. Finally Paul Cavrois turned to Robert Mallet-Stevens after he met him in 1925 at the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris.The owners gave the architect free rein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
