Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922

His 'Ideal City' includes buildings - a school, a hospital an more - in the Art Deco style

“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.”
– Robert Mallet-Stevens

 

Robert Mallet-Stevens

 

In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du 7ème art. A Paris street in the 16th arrondissement, Rue Mallet-Stevens, was built by him in the 1920s, with 6 houses he designed. He designed the Noailles villa for art patrons Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles in the hills above Hyères, in the Var, southeastern France, and founded of the Union of Modern Artists. Robert Mallet-Stevens was busy.

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Portrait de l’architecte Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945) Œuvre de Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) 1933 Huile sur toile Musée des années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt

 Cage d'escalier de l'immeuble de rapport conçu en 1929 par l'architecte Robert Mallet-Stevens à Paris au 7 rue Méchain Portrait de l'architecte Mallet-Stevens

Cage d’escalier de l’immeuble de rapport conçu en 1929 par l’architecte Robert Mallet-Stevens à Paris au 7 rue Méchain Portrait de l’architecte Mallet-Stevens

First influenced by the artists of the Viennese Secession such as Josef Hoffman, Robert Mallet-Stevens established himself as one of the major figures of modern aesthetics, defending a new architecture based on functionalism and rationalism, in the tradition of Bauhaus.

 

Robert Mallet-Stevens

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These images are from a fabulous portfolio of 32 of Mallet-Stevens’ designs called Une Cité Moderne, published in 1922 and created between 1917 and 1921. In it we see a directory of public and private buildings cast in a simple, symmetrical surfaces, cleverly proportioned geometric ornaments and large glass and cement surfaces.

 

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