About

Jean Royère was one of the leading figures in French design from his very first project—garden furniture—in 1931 until his definitive retirement in 1972. Those four decades saw the worldwide shift towards the modern; and Royère, bestriding two epochs — from the prewar years to the economic boom and prosperity of postwar reconstruction — traversed the aesthetic climate of his time as strikingly and dazzlingly as a comet.
Self-taught, he always remained a free agent. Quick, intuitive, intelligent and pragmatic, he was also remarkably inventive, as his work makes crystal clear: there is sheer …