Biography

Adolphe Chanaux, France (1887-1965)

Adolphe Chanaux, born June 5, 1887 in Paris, is a French decorator and cabinetmaker by training.

Trained with Groult, he was recognized by his peers as particularly talented and set up on his own in 1920. He enjoyed playing with new materials, which he helped to bring up to date: shagreen, straw, etc.

He is best known for having worked with Jean Michel Frank. They collaborated until the start of the war. They share the same taste for simplicity and simplicity, interiors and furniture for Parisians trendy by what we today call art deco. If he created furniture for Jean-Michel Frank, he also created furniture alone. After the death of his friend in the United States, in 1941, he was finally associated with the company Chanaux et Cie, and became artistic director of the Guerlain house, where he had designed the decor and furniture of the Parisian boutique with Jean- Michel Frank in the mid-1930s.

Adolphe Chanaux died in Paris on August 28, 1965.

To find out more, read this Wikipedia link (Français).

Jean-Michel Frank, France (1893-1941)

Jean-Michel Frank was a French interior designer known for his minimalist interiors decorated with furniture made with luxury materials, such as shagreen, mica and intricate straw marquetry. He had an eye for exotic patterns, particularly in veneers, including snake and shark skin. His work became widely known in the 1930s. He is known for being associated with the Art Deco movement.

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Ecart International

By creating Ecart International in 1978, Andrée Putman, the great lady of design, began by resurrecting the forgotten talents of furniture from the 1930s. Since 1978, Ecart International has reissued furniture, lighting and heritage objects from the early 20th century, saved from oblivion through the desire to make known these creators who have now become classics: Eileen Gray, Jean-Michel Frank and Adolphe Chanaux, Pierre Chareau, Michel Dufet, Mariano Fortuny…

Andrée Putman is passionate about their work, unearths pieces, restores, reissues, publicizes, develops a highly coherent catalog. In her own words, she will “help them to be reborn. » The furniture reissued by Ecart International, which, half a century earlier, had been rejected for the simplicity of its lines, enjoyed great success and was distributed to a wide audience.

Andrée Putman is not only at the origin of the international recognition of the works of these artists, but she also participates largely in their protection and their heritage.

The manufacturing of all of its seating, furniture and lighting collections is French. The rugs are hand-knotted in Nepal.