Pierre Chareau


Designed by Bijvoet and Chareau clubhouse for Golf de Beauvallon Bureau-library of Pierre Chareau, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris

Pierre Chareau (Bordeaux, August 4, 1883 - New York, August 24, 1950) was a French architect and designer of furniture and lamps.

Chareau belonged to Le Corbusier in France as the first architects of the New Build, an architecture flow that used new materials such as concrete, glass and steel. He was a member of the Congres International Architecture Architecture.

In 1926-1927 he designed with the Dutch architect Bernard Bijvoet the clubhouse of Golf de Beauvallon golf club. The two would later collaborate more often with the design of the Maison de Verre (1928-1931).

In 1939, Chareau left for the United States. He settled in New York, where he designed an studio for American painter Robert Motherwell in 1947. Chareau died at the age of 67.

Chareau also designed furniture of steel and wood, and a series of lamps for which he applied alabaster. Bibliography

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