Pierre Legrain : Reliures, Meubles, Cadres

Designer, interior architect, bookbinder, framer, landscape gardener, Pierre-Emile Legrain (1888-1929) is a mysterious figure sought after by bibliophiles, art lovers and collectors of exceptional furniture. During his life, he met figures as various as Paul Iribe, Jacques Doucet - for whom he created more than 400 bindings, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Jean Cocteau, sculptors Gustave Miklos et Henri Laurens, painter Francis Picabia or modiste Jeanne Tachard.
This book, first cross-sectional monograph devoted to Legrain, underlines the formal links existing between his work as designer, bookbinder and drafter, and presents the exceptional artistic context in which this unusual work was born.