Step inside the first U.S. exhibition of Pierre Chareau, co-architect of the Maison de Verre

2016-11-08T13:01:00-05:00

Pierre Chareau was a French architect and designer best known for the groundbreaking Maison de Verre in Paris that he designed with Dutch architect Bernard Bijvoet. However, Chareau's diverse body of work has received hardly any exposure in the U.S. Thanks to a collaboration between Diller Scofidio + Renfro and the Jewish Museum in New York City, Chareau's work made its U.S. debut last Friday in the exhibition, “Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design”.

Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, Maison de Verre, 1928-1932.

After Chareau fled Paris from German occupation during World War II, his own designs and his vast art collection were scattered when he sold them, as he tried to rebuild his career in New York. The exhibition attempts to piece together parts of Chareau's life and works during those trying times, while integrating in-vogue media and technology that can appeal to today's broader audience.

The exhibition still dedicates much of itself to Chareau's seminal work, the Mais...

The first US exhibition on Pierre Chareau coming to the Jewish Museum

2016-05-05T13:38:00-04:00

This fall, the Jewish Museum will present what it’s billing as the first United States exhibition devoted to the work of Pierre Chareau, a French Modernist who for decades fell out of the mainstream history of art and architecture [...] Chareau (1883-1950) was a prolific designer and art collector in France, and best known for his Maison de Verre (“Glass House”), a landmark building in Paris created in 1928 in collaboration with the Dutch architect Bernard Bijvoet...

The exhibition, entitled "Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design", is the third exhibition in a trilogy of design exhibitions, following surveys of the work of Isaac Mizrahi and Roberto Burle Marx.

The French architect and designer also had an impressive collection of art, which will be on view in the exhibit.

The exhibition will be designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

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Step inside the first U.S. exhibition of Pierre Chareau, co-architect of the Maison de Verre

The first US exhibition on Pierre Chareau coming to the Jewish Museum