Biography

Louis Sognot, France (1892 – 1969)

Louis Sognot is a French decorative artist and designer.

Born in 1892, Louis Sognot learned cabinetmaking from Jansen and worked at the Krieger workshop specializing in the fitting out of ocean liners.

In 1920, he returned to the Printemps department stores where he directed the Primavera workshop, which allowed him to present his first furniture at the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Artistes Decorateurs.
Very inspired by the modern movement and in particular cubism, he developed a personal style, creating with Charlotte Alix numerous metal sets in a certain French tradition.

Close to Le Corbusier, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, René Herbst and Marcel Breuer, he abandoned metal for rattan during the crisis of the 1930s.

His first attempts focused on the decoration of villas or complexes for small communities. Thus, at the Salon des Arts Ménagers in 1939, he presented a hotel room entirely made of rattan.

After the Second World War, he defined a new decorative vocabulary using mainly light wood, rattan and sometimes metal, on an occasional basis.

In 1951, with the household arts fair, he established himself as the rattan specialist.

Very dynamic until the 1960s, he exhibited at the Household Arts Salon but also at the Decorative Artists Salon. Creating furniture with supple and vigorous lines whose shapes are sometimes reminiscent of more classic old styles.

Wikipedia link (FR):
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sognot