Marcel Coard Décorateur

The Art Deco interior designer and decorator Marcel Coard first was an architect and a connoisseur of African and Oceanian art. His work, tinged with Cubism and exoticism, comes from diverse passions, and he often incorporated African and Oceanian sculptures to his decorations.

This monograph is divided into four parts - a biography, then a chronological study of the artist's work: the first years of the "Coard style" (1918-1928) and his meeting with Jacques Doucet, for whom he created simple furniture enriched with delicate decorative designs; the evolution of his style (1928-1935), period during which he used lapis-lazuli, ebony or shagreen; his return to a more classical vocabulary during the 1940s, during which he received an order from the French Mobilier national, and the end of his career with his collaboration with Maison Jansen.