{"id":9393,"date":"2019-06-08T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacqueslacoste.com\/?page_id=9393"},"modified":"2020-12-11T16:53:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T15:53:41","slug":"jean-royere-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jacqueslacoste.com\/en\/jean-royere-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Roy\u00e8re, biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_id=&#8221;arianne&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<nav aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\">\n            <div class=\"breadcrumb-container theme1\">\n                <ol>\n                                    <\/ol>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/nav>    <script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n        {\n            \"@context\": \"http:\/\/schema.org\",\n            \"@type\": \"BreadcrumbList\",\n            \"itemListElement\": [\n                            ]\n        }\n    <\/script>\n   \n    <script>\n            <\/script>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_id=&#8221;single-prod&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; el_class=&#8221;sticky&#8221;][vc_gallery type=&#8221;image_grid&#8221; images=&#8221;7258&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; el_class=&#8221;product-details&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jean Roy\u00e8re (1902-1981)<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biography<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born into an educated middle-class family, Jean Roy\u00e8re turned away from a career in the import-export trade and instead, aged 30, he dedicated himself to interior design. His first experience in working in this trade was in a Faubourg Saint-Antoine furniture workshop, where he was initiated into the highest form of craft perpetuated in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1931 Jean Roy\u00e8re worked on his first commision\u00a0: for his uncle, Jacques Raverat, he designed a set of garden furniture characterised by elongated lines which heralded his personal style, emancipated from any conventions. The chromed-metal-set he designed for the brasserie Le Carlton on avenue des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es was a great succes, which helped establish him as an emerging figure on the interior design scene. In 1934, Jean Roy\u00e8re<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>was noticed by manufacturer Pierre Gouff\u00e9 who appointed him as the head of his workshop\u2019s contemporary furniture studio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the 1937 Exposition Universelle, for which he designed seventeen different sets of furniture stands,\u00a0Roy\u00e8re was celebrated as one of the most original and creative decorators of his time. Following that, he was made a member of the <em>Salon des artistes d\u00e9corateurs, <\/em>\u00a0and in 1939 he went on to design a boudoir so unique that it was to become a milestone in his career. Roy\u00e8re then developed a new ornamental repertoire, in a palette of citrus tones, drawing inspiration freely from the animal and vegetal realms. Indeed, the <em>\u00c9l\u00e9phanteau\u00a0<\/em>armchair, the <em>Tr\u00e8fle <\/em>chair, the <em>Champignon\u00a0<\/em>lamp and the <em>Bouquet <\/em>sconce are emblematic of the poetic designs which were to come to fruition during the interwar period<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jean Roy\u00e8re opened his own\u00a0agency, located 5 rue d\u2019Argenson in Paris in 1942. Then, in 1949, he opened a large gallery, located 182 rue Faubourg Saint-Honor\u00e9. Having broken free from the functionalist trend, the designer returned to a mode of ornamentation. Indeed this focus ruled the way he designed interiors, as exemplified by the 1947 office of a Paris businesswoman, clad entirely in perforated iron sheet. \u00a0In fact, patterns formed with circles, criss-crossings and herringbones were incorporated into every element of his interiors. The curves of the metal tube he used for the <em>Liane <\/em>sconce intermingle and creep all over the wall in images of the 1959 <em>Salon des artistes d\u00e9corateurs<\/em>. This piece helped Roy\u00e8re gain faithful clients such as Gastonn Dutilleul, who would remain a devoted customer from 1949 to 1972, and also Henri Salvador, for whom he designed straw-marquetry furniture, which incorporated a star pattern, in 1955.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roy\u00e8re rose to public prominence once he started getting state commissions. As early as 1948 he was in charge with redecorating the reception rooms for the French consulate in Alexandria, Egypt. His 1950 designs for the drawings of the new French legation in Helsinki, Finland, included brightly coloured <em>Ball\u00a0<\/em>armchairs, testifying to his vibrant creative freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roy\u00e8re\u2019s success and ceaseless activity quickly brought him into contact with foreign clients, who were drawn to his decorative inventiveness. He opened a number of shops in the Middle East and then in South America\u00a0: Cairo in 1946, Beirut in 1947, Lima in 1955 and S\u00e3o Paulo in 1957. Once he partnered with the Lebanese architect Nadim Majdalani, he took up big projects for various hotels such as Le Capitole in Beirut in 1953, the Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem in 1955 or the Amman Club in Jordan in 1958. The designer even gained the favours of leaders and rulers of the region, namely King Hussein of Jordan, the King and Queen of Saudi Arabia and the Shah of Iran\u00a0; for whom he designed a film theatre in 1958.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1972, following a long and proloific international career, Jean Roy\u00e8re stopped working as a designer and split his time between France and the US.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Portrait de Jean Roy\u00e8re, vers 1930<br \/>\n\u00a9 Les Arts D\u00e9coratifs Paris, tous droits r\u00e9serv\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;BACK&#8221; style=&#8221;classic&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jacqueslacoste.com%2Fen%2F|||&#8221;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Back to the exhibition&#8221; style=&#8221;custom&#8221; custom_background=&#8221;#9a0a25&#8243; custom_text=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jacqueslacoste.com%2Fen%2Fexposition%2F|title:L%E2%80%99exposition||&#8221; el_class=&#8221;btn-red&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_id=&#8221;arianne&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_id=&#8221;single-prod&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; el_class=&#8221;sticky&#8221;][vc_gallery type=&#8221;image_grid&#8221; images=&#8221;7258&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; el_class=&#8221;product-details&#8221;][vc_column_text] Jean Roy\u00e8re (1902-1981) Biography Born into an educated middle-class family, Jean Roy\u00e8re turned away from a career in the import-export trade and instead, aged 30, he dedicated himself to interior design. 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