Designer · France · 1903–1969
André Arbus
André Arbus (1903–1969) – French furniture designer, interior architect and sculptor from Toulouse, professor at the École des Arts Décoratifs.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1903–1969
- Country
- France
André Arbus was born on 17 November 1903 in Toulouse into a family of cabinetmakers and died on 12 December 1969 in Paris. After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, he worked in his father’s workshop; in 1925, he took part in the Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He moved to Paris in 1932 and received the Prix Blumenthal in 1935.
He designed furniture often drawing on the style of Louis XVI. At the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, he designed, among other things, a French family home, and he also exhibited in New York in 1939. He co-designed the interiors of the Élysée Palace and the Château de Rambouillet. From 1950, he exhibited figurative sculptures at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon d’Automne; that same year, he became a professor at the École des Arts Décoratifs, and in 1965 a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
