Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design - Hardcover

by Esther Da Costa Meyer (Author)

Now back in print, a revealing look at the visionary French furniture designer and architect, highlighting his virtuoso designs and versatile creativity

"Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design adds even more depth and breadth to the architect's deserved reputation for creative virtuosity."--Julie V. Iovine, Wall Street Journal

"[A]n exceptionally informative, readable catalog."--Roberta Smith, New York Times

Author Biography

Esther da Costa Meyer is professor emerita of modern architecture at Princeton University. Bernard Bauchet is an architect and scholar based in Paris. Olivier Cinqualbre is chief curator of architecture at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Jean-Louis Cohen was Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Robert M. Rubin is an independent scholar and curator. Kenneth E. Silver is professor of modern and contemporary art at New York University. Brian Brace Taylor was professor of architectural history and theory at the New York Institute of Technology.