"Jean Royère" Décorateur à Paris

Canned Candies, The Exotic Women and Clothes of Paco Rabanne. Photographed by Jean Clemmer. Published by Charles Skilton Limited, 1969. A collaboration between the Parisian photog...

Published by Wallace-Homestead Company, updated and revised edition, 1989. Hardback with English text. This comprehensive volume, complemented by a handy price guide, is the ultimat...

Published by Denoël, 1st English edition, Paris, 1989. Hardback with English text, translated from French by Elizabeth Thomas. Like perfume itself, this book plays on a multitude of levels, quotations from articles, novels and handbooks on good manners are set out alongside 150 years of images - relating to the tenuous world of Guerlain perfume...

Published by Musées des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1st edition, 1961. Softcover with French text. A scarce catalogue published for the 1961 exhibition at the Musées des Arts Décoratifs. This volume documents Chagall’s stained glass...

Jean Royere was one of the great innovative designer/decorators of the 20th century and his clients included The Shah of Persia, King Farouk of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan. He w...

A scarce hard backed catalogue with dust jacket which was produced by the Galerie Jacques Lacoste for an exhibition held in May, June and July ...

In 1931, aged 29, Jean Royère (1902-1981) resigned from a comfortable position in the import-export trade in order to set up business as an interior designer. He learnt his new trade in the cabinetmaking workshops of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris. In 1934, he designed the new layout of the Brasserie Carlton on the Champs Elysées and found immediate success, embarking upon an international career that was to endure for nearly half a century. Royère tackled all kinds of decoration work and opened branches in the Near East and Latin America; among his patrons were King Farouk, King Hussein...

This is a very good copy of a scarce book on the furniture which was designed and produced by one of the 20th centuries most innovative and sought-after designers. His client list du...