Jean Royere

Royere, Jean.  Jean-Louis Gaillemin Norma Editions  2020SKU: S02731   • A comprehensive monograph on Jean Royère, a key figure of the Avant-garde in the 1950s • More than 150 contemporary photographs of iconic furniture "In the inventive and joyful style Royère developed he artfully blended modernity and classicism with enthusiasm and humor." - Art et Décoration, 2002 By the age of 30 Jean Royère had already established his brilliant career as a decorator. After eschewing the functionalism so in vogue in the 1930s, in 1939, at the Salon des artistes Décorateurs, he presented a boudoir which provocatively marked the return of ornament. FRENCH   320 pp., English.  Many color + b/w illus.