This hardcover book with 334 full color pages presents the artist and designer Paul Follot.
Paul Follot (1877-1941) is a decorator in his time adored, alongside the Ruhlmann, Legrain, Nagge ... He designs jewelry as well as furniture, crockery, rugs, decorative objects, clocks, lighting, damask, wallpaper, stained glass or even ironwork.
Cantor of Art Nouveau, he contributed to the invention of the 1910 style and triumphed at the Decorative Arts Exhibition of 1925. In 1922, he took charge of Pomone, the Bon Marché art workshop, then, from 1927 to 1930, that of the French section of the British decoration firm Waring & Gillow installed on the Champs Elysées. Through these stores which cater to a wider public than just private practice, Follot exerts a decisive influence on the taste of the time and makes dream of France which is furnished.
In Paris, his works are kept at the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. His house-workshop on rue Schoelcher, occupied since 2018 by the Giacometti institute and accessible to the public, has retained a large part of its original decor.
The author invites us to enter the intimacy of the artist and gives flesh to the history of the decorative arts. He evokes the relationship of the interior designer with Ida, a German artist whom he married in 1907, his courage in the trenches, his teaching, his relationships with his clients, among others with the poet Paul Géraldy, the painter Henry Caro-Delvaille, the writer Claude Farrère, or with his colleagues and nevertheless friends, among whom Edgar Brandt, Maurice Dufrène, Jean Dunand, and the Poiret family.

Contents:

• The wonderful cabinetmaker, by Maurice Culot
• 1900 - Promising beginnings
• 1907 - A decisive meeting
• 1908-1911 - Emancipation
• 1912-1913 - A pivotal period
• 1914 - The year of great hopes
• 1914-1918 - An artist grappling with war
• 1919 - The artist, the Republic and the industry
• 1920 - The year of the relaunch
• 1921 - The French are furnished
• 1922 - Pomone
• 1923 - The battle of Decorative Arts
• 1924 - The whims of Marianne
• 1925 - The Decorative Arts exhibition
• 1926 - The fallout from an exhibition
• 1927 - The episode of the Waring & Gillow
• 1928 - The latest glitter from the Golden Twenties
• 1929-1930 - Between Europe and Asia
• 1931-1932 - After crisis
• 1933-1934 - Revolutionary materials
• 1935-1936 - Independence regained
• 1937 - The Exposition universelle
• 1938-1941 - Epilogue

• Inventory
• Biographies
• Bibliography

The French texts are written by Léopold Diego Sanchez.

Printed in 2020, this book is NEW and is 9 inches x 12 inches ( 23 cm x 31 cm )