Pierre Chareau (4 August 1883 – 24 August 1950) was a Frencharchitect anddesigner.
Chareau was born inBordeaux,France. He apprenticed at a Paris-based British furniture manufacturer, Waring & Gillow,[1] after he failed his entrance exams to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.[2]
Chareau designed the first house in France made of steel and glass, theMaison de Verre.[citation needed]
Chareau was a member ofCongrès International d'Architecture Moderne.
Chareau and his wife fled Nazi-occupied Paris to Marseilles and Morocco and eventually settled in the New York.Robert Motherwell commissioned a house in the Hamptons, which would be Chareau's last. Unable to secure another commission, he and his wife survived on the income she made from giving cooking lessons. Though he made efforts to show his work at MOMA and at the Musee National d'Art Moderne in Paris, he died in 1950, relatively unknown and penniless.[3]
In 2016,The Jewish Museum inNew York City mounted the exhibition,Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design which explored the architect's work.
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