Adnet, Jacques Architect and decorator, Adnet started working at Rapin and later at Tony Selmersheim. Starting in 1920, he worked at Maurice Dufrêne and two years later at the Maîtrise des Galeries Lafayette.
Jacques Adnet defines himself as an "innovator and classicist, a champion of the tradition leading toward the future." Infatuated with functionalism, he created solidly constructed furniture, very sober and often times completely lacking of all decor. There are still remincisings of ancient styles. A clear conception, logic and raffined materials make up the characteristics of production that Adnet frequently realized in collaboration with his younger brother Jean Adnet.
From 1923 and on, he and his brother exhibited in the principle french and foreign salons. They participated at the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs with a large piece among others for the hall of the Ambassade Française. During this era, they devote themselves to ceramics, in modeling a full series of birds in white earthenware.
In 1928, Jean Adnet becomes Director of Displays for Galeries Lafayette. This takes up a large part of his activities from this point on. Jacques Adnet for his part, continues his carreer as a decorator. He quits the maîtrise and the same year joins the Compagnie des Arts Français that founded Süe et Mare in 1919. He reunites a team of artists and shares his aesthetic preoccupations.
Despite his training as an architect, Jacques Adnet does not conceive furniture as elements of the interior space, but more like perfectly independent entities. He realizes a large number of buildings and in particular for the cabinent du travail of the Président de la République au Château de Rambouillet and also for many oceanliners. While at the Exposition des Arts et Techniques in Paris in 1937, the construction of the Pavillon de Saint-Gobin awards him the Grand Prix d'Architecte.
After the war, in 1959, he puts an end to his activities at the Compagnie des Arts Français to take up the direction of l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts Décoratifs of which he had taken courses at when he was only 16.
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