Charlotte Perriand

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Designer Charlotte Perriand came to the attention of Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1927 when she exhibited a cocktail bar she had designed for her apartment in St Sulpice, Paris, France. He employed her to design furniture using materials such as hand-made papers and metal plates. The original of her tubular steel rocking-chair, one of her most admired works, was made in 1928 with the assistance of Le Courbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. She was a founder member of the left-wing Union des Artistes Modernes in 1929.

Women designers, Perriand, Charlotte

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Bernard Buffet

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Painter Bernard Buffet studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. He almost immediately gained a contract with Galerie Drouant-David, and his first exhibition was staged in New York, NY, in 1950. His art was figurative but non-realist, and covered a wide range of styles and subjects. He became particularly popular in Japan, and opened his own art museum in Shizuoka. He was an extremely gifted illustrator, and also created sets and costumes for the theatre.

Buffet, Bernard

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Olivier Debre

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Painter Olivier Debre was born into an artistic family. He began to draw and paint at the age of nine following the death of his mother. He studied at the Faculty of Letters in the Sorbonne, Paris, France, and entered the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in 1938, where he studied painting. He served in the Resistance during the second world war, and received the Croix de Guerre. He was strongly influenced by Picasso, who encouraged him to move towards abstraction.

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