Jacques Adnet

He attended the Municipal School of Design in Auxerre and the École des Beaux-Arts Paris.

During the 1950s, he created furniture and concentrated on the numerous commissions he received, such as the decoration of the private apartments of the President at the Elysée Palace or the meeting room of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

Adnet exhibited at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.

Distinctly avant garde, Adnet and was among the first to expect metal and glass to integrate with the structure and decoration of furniture.

These incorporated precious woods, chromed metals, embellishments such as mirror, leather, parchment and smoked glass in linear styles with decoration pared away wherever possible.