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lights, carpets, mirrors, vases and statuettes. Modern and affordable products were made for the mass market. Primavera also made complete sets of furniture and decoration for wealthy private or public clients, including hotels, casinos and embassies. They also submitted work to exhibitions such as the
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The atelier reopened after the war. Guilleré and his wife recruited talented young people, mostly under thirty years old and believers in the new aesthetics. They purchased the Faïencerie de Ste-Radegonde and commissioned innovative ceramicists. Primavera created furniture, fabrics, wallpaper,
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department stores, who agreed to promote the work of decorative artists in his stores. Laguionie had already arranged competitions for decorative art and had offered some modern furniture, but the energetic
Guilleré persuaded him to go further and support production. The Atelier Primavera was
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Guilleré imagined elegant designs for mass-produced objects such as drain covers and automobile radiator caps. He also wanted France to assert her leadership in modern design over
Germany, Britain and Italy. He was reacting to the success that the German decorators had achieved at the 1910
260:. The pavilion was one of four, with the products of the other studios placed at the other corners of the exposition, where they were the main attractions of the event. The temple-like building was criticized as being overblown, but the interior presented an elegant and refined decor.
225:. The proposal was sponsored by the leading arts associations and by more the fifty members of the decorative arts establishment. It was supported by all parties in the Chamber of Deputies in a vote in July 1912. The exposition was planned for 1915, but plans were interrupted by
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founded in 1912, with
Guilleré's wife as its head. Guilleré codirected the workshop. In its first year it created and distributed more than 800 models, but production was halted with the outbreak of war in 1914.
114:(SAD) in 1901 "to react against commercialism, shameful copying, bad taste and the inertia of trade and industry." He helped organize the first SAD exhibition in 1904. He also contributed to various reviews.
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Charlotte Chauchet (1878–1964), a young painter. They had a house built in brick and slate, with an unpretentious but elegant facade, at 13 rue Eugénie Gérard in
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René Guilleré was born in 1878. He became a lawyer. He was a lover of art and music, a collector of
African art, a poet and dramatic author. He joined the movement
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