
Fleur lamp (model LP166)
Pierre ChareauWW-1924-M122757
Catalogue
- Year
- 1924
- Medium
- Brass and alabaster
- Dimensions
- 9 × 10" (22.9 × 25.4 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Pierre Chareau
Artist

Pierre Chareau
Pierre Chareau was a French architect and designer whose austere modernist interiors and furniture pioneered the integration of industrial materials and rational planning in domestic space during the early twentieth century. Working across architecture, interior design, and object creation, he rejected ornament in favor of structural clarity and functional precision. His most celebrated project, the Maison de Verre in Paris, exemplifies his commitment to transparency, steel framing, and the honest expression of building materials. Chareau's influence extended across European modernism through his rigorous formal language and conviction that design could reshape everyday living.
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- Pierre Chareau
- Year
- 1924
- Medium
- Brass and alabaster
- Dimensions
- 9 × 10" (22.9 × 25.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1924-M122757
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified

