Title & Author:

In Paris in the Twenties / [presented by] Erno Goldfinger.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (25 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Erno Goldfinger -- Vers Une Architecture By Le Corbusier Saugnier, 1923 -- Notre Dame De Raincy Church By Auguste Perret, 1923 -- Notre Dame De Raincy. Interior -- Studio For Ozenfant By Le Corbusier, 1923 -- Palais De Bois By Perret, 1924 -- Chairs, 1925 -- Pavilion De L'Esprit Nouveau By Le Corbusier, Paris 1925 -- Russian Pavilion By Melnikov, Paris 1925 -- Champs De Tir Project, 1925 -- Chateau Project, 1925 -- Coutrot Bookcase, 1926 -- Helena Rubinstein Showroom, London, 1927 -- Le Portique Gallery, 1928 -- Needs, Means, Etc. Four Seating Positions, 1928 -- S. Salvador Comp Project, 1928 -- Aeronautique Comp Project 1928 -- House For Tristan Zara By Adolf Loos 1928 -- Heliometer, 1931 -- Goldfinger Studio Apartment, 1931 -- Unite D'Habitation Project For CLAM, 1933 -- Maison Cuq, Le Touquet, 1934 -- Maison Cuq, Dining-Room -- Maison Cuq, Second House.

Summary:

Hungarian born Erno Goldfinger spent the formative years of his life in the 1920s in Paris. He moved to England in 1933, where he has remained ever since. He studied architecture at the École des Beaux Arts. Students could form a "commune" and choose a maître. Goldfinger, on the advice of Le Corbusier who never taught, chose Auguste Perret who generously gave space to the atelier in his newly-built Palais de Bois. Even while studying, Goldfinger was designing furniture, interiors, exhibitions, and entering competitions, from 1925 to 1928 in partnership with André Sive. As in London later on, he was always involved in the promotion of modern art and architecture; and when the French branch of CLAM was formed, he became the Secretary. He counted among his friends Pierre Jeanneret, Jean and André Lurçat, Adolf Loos, Amédée Ozenfant, Charlotte Perriand, Georges Badovici (publisher of the influential "L'Architecture Vivante") Pierre Chareau, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and so on. His talk gives a vivid picture of the architectural life in Paris.

Subject:

Furniture design 20th century.
Meubles Design 20e siècle.
Furniture design.

Added entries:

Goldfinger, Ernö, narrator.