Pierre Chareau

Pierre Chareau was an interwar architect and designer who built the first family house of glass and steel in France. He came from the port city of Bordeaux from a family of shipbuilders.
1899-1913 - joined the Paris branch of Waring & Gillow, an English firm specializing in interior design and furniture
1900-08 - at the age of seventeen, he began studying at the Paris school École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
1904 - married Dollie Dyte
1914 - was conscripted into the army during World War I
1919 - opened his own studio in Paris, where he worked as an architect and furniture designer. The couple
Annie and Jean Dalsace commissioned him to furnish their apartment at 195 Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne
1920 - met artist Jean Lurçat, renowned for his tapestries, and designed the country house of Edmund Bernheim. Interior designs for the bedroom and bathroom were presented at the Salon d'Automne
1922 - exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs. He met members of the Parisian artistic and literary avant-garde. He began collecting works by Modigliani, Braque, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, and Mondrian
1923-24 - collaborated with Fernand Léger and Robert Mallet-Stevens on the film L'Inhumaine directed by Marcel L'Herbier. Opened his own shop at 3 rue du Cherche-Midi. Started collaborating with Louis Dalbert, who ran a family metalworking business. The first results were presented at the Salon d'Automne
1925 - collaboration with Mallet-Stevens and Francis Jourdain on the interiors of the French embassy for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris
1927-28 - the first designs for a glass house for the Dalsace couple on rue Saint Guillaume in Paris emerge, he works for Grand Hôtel de Tours, participates in the CIAM congress in La Sarraz, Switzerland.
1929 - left the Société des Artistes Décorateurs and became a founding member of the Union des Artistes Modernes (UAM)
1930-31 - participated in the first UAM exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. The glass house garnered significant interest in both French and international press
1936-37 exhibited folding school furniture at the Salon d'Automne. Participated in the World Expo in Paris
1939 - left in July for Portugal, Spain, and Morocco
1940 - arrived in America in October
1941-48 - lived and worked in America as a cultural attaché and organized exhibitions on Balzac, Daumier, and Auguste Perret
1950 - died in New York after a brief illness. His wife remained in the United States until her death in 1967