Pierre chareau biography

French architect and designer

Pierre Chareau (4 August – 24 August ) was a French architect and designer.

Early life

Chareau was born in Bordeaux, 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]

Work

Chareau designed the first house in France made of steel and glass, the Maison de Verre.^{[citation needed]}

Chareau was a member of Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne.

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Move to United States

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,