Jean Luce and the revival of the French table 1910-1960.
Norma / MAD| N° d'inventaire | 31140 |
| Format | 23 x 31 |
| Détails | 303 p., 387 color photographs and illustrations, 107 cat., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782376660903 |
In 1925, at the age of 30, Jean Luce was the only tableware artist to have a personal exhibition space at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris. His long career, which began in 1911 at the Galliera Museum exhibition, continued until the end of the 1950s. It allowed him to experience many 20th-century movements, including Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Modernism.
Initially admired in the 1920s for the quality and originality of his geometric decorations and ornaments, he became well-known in the 1930s for his work in reviving forms. Designers and decorators such as Pierre Chareau, Charlotte Perriand, Rob Mallet-Stevens and Djo Bourgeois did not hesitate to showcase his designs on their stands or in their interiors. Personalizing his creations, he created services for prestigious clients such as the Maharajah of Indore and Paul Cavrois.
His creations are also aimed at a wider audience, which he reaches both in France through points of sale such as Steph Simon or Pilote, and in the United States where he established himself at the beginning of the 1950s. Always on the lookout for technical and industrial innovations, he continued to create after the Second World War, collaborating in particular with companies such as Duralex which allowed him to continue his reflection on functionalism.
Richly illustrated, notably with the Luce collection deposited at the MAD, Paris, this work presents the unpublished biography of Jean Luce, but also the work of his contemporaries such as Marcel Goupy, Suzanne Lalique, Paul Follot, Mathurin Méheut and Francis Jourdain.
In 1925, at the age of 30, Jean Luce was the only tableware artist to have a personal exhibition space at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris. His long career, which began in 1911 at the Galliera Museum exhibition, continued until the end of the 1950s. It allowed him to experience many 20th-century movements, including Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Modernism.
Initially admired in the 1920s for the quality and originality of his geometric decorations and ornaments, he became well-known in the 1930s for his work in reviving forms. Designers and decorators such as Pierre Chareau, Charlotte Perriand, Rob Mallet-Stevens and Djo Bourgeois did not hesitate to showcase his designs on their stands or in their interiors. Personalizing his creations, he created services for prestigious clients such as the Maharajah of Indore and Paul Cavrois.
His creations are also aimed at a wider audience, which he reaches both in France through points of sale such as Steph Simon or Pilote, and in the United States where he established himself at the beginning of the 1950s. Always on the lookout for technical and industrial innovations, he continued to create after the Second World War, collaborating in particular with companies such as Duralex which allowed him to continue his reflection on functionalism.
Richly illustrated, notably with the Luce collection deposited at the MAD, Paris, this work presents the unpublished biography of Jean Luce, but also the work of his contemporaries such as Marcel Goupy, Suzanne Lalique, Paul Follot, Mathurin Méheut and Francis Jourdain.