Designer · France · 1910–1991
Maxime Old
Maxime Old (1910–1991) – French furniture and interior designer, École Boulle graduate, Ruhlmann collaborator, designer of SS France interiors.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1910–1991
- Country
- France
Maxime Old was born on 13 December 1910 in Maisons-Alfort and died on 16 November 1991 in Paris. After four years of study at École Boulle, he worked in Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann’s design team until 1934. He ran a family cabinetmaking workshop at 37 rue Chanzy in Paris and a gallery on Avenue Hoche, and also taught at ENSAD.
He designed the interiors of the French pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, a hotel in the French pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels (Grand Prix), the first-class lounge of the ocean liner SS France (1961) and Marseille-Marignane Airport (1961), as well as ocean liners and embassies, including those in Oslo, The Hague, Ottawa, Accra and Helsinki. He was known for transformable furniture. In 1954, he was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
