French furniture maker, decorator, and artist-craftsman
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Louis Majorelle
Picture of Louis Majorelle, undated photograph.
Born
Louis-Jean-Sylvestre Majorelle
(1859-09-26)26 September 1859
Toul, France
Died
15 January 1926(1926-01-15) (aged 66)
Nancy, France
Resting place
Cimetière de Préville, Nancy, France
Occupations
furniture maker
decorator
artist-craftsman
Spouse
Marie Léonie Jane Kretz
(m. 1885; died 1912)
Children
1, Jacques Majorelle
Louis-Jean-Sylvestre Majorelle, usually known simply as Louis Majorelle, (26 September 1859 – 15 January 1926) was a French decorator and furniture designer who manufactured his own designs, in the French tradition of the ébéniste. He was one of the outstanding designers of furniture in the Art Nouveau style, and after 1901 formally served as one of the vice-presidents of the École de Nancy.
Louis Majorelle is one of those who contributed the most to the transformation of furniture. Thanks to posterity, we recognize today a piece of furniture from him as we recognize a piece of furniture from André Charles Boulle and Charles Cressent, the french Prince regent's favorite artists. During the early 18th century, Cressent replaced the magnificence of ebony and tortoiseshell associated with tin and copper by the softer harmonies of foreign woods. Like him, Louis Majorelle dressed the elegant structure of Art Nouveau furniture with exotic wood inlays.
The palette he composed with wood from France and abroad, resembles that of a painter. Oak, walnut, ash, elm, holly, plane, chestnut, cherry, pear and beech provide the soft tones and the enveloping range of grays; they serve Majorelle in calm and deliberately monochrome compositions. Rosewood provides the delicate colors and patterns of the flower. The tender yellow lemon tree, the silver maple, the purple amaranth, dear to Cressent, the jacaranda wood, the red satin, the amourette, the orange clairembourg, the black or green ebony, the red or black palm, etc., constituted for him, among the foreign essences, the most extensive colored swell, where his painter instincts could flourish.
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confines of tradition, yielding striking pieces by Hector Guimard, LouisMajorelle, and Antoni Gaudi. After an interruption of the First World War, Art...
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and silver. The furniture collection includes pieces by Emile Gallé, LouisMajorelle, and Gustav Stickley, as well as those by Tiffany. The museum also...
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Nancy, France. His son, LouisMajorelle, became one of the earliest modernist cabinet-makers and his grand-son, Jacques Majorelle, was a noted modernist-Orientalist...
enamel, and gold (1901) Daum lamp with magnolia flowers, designed with LouisMajorelle (1903) Tulip vase by Antonin Daum (1910) René Lalique was another prominent...
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