Louis majorelle biography

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Biography

French cabinetmaker.

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Louis-Jean-Sylvestre Majorelle, usually known simply as Louis Majorelle, was a French decorator and furniture designer who manufactured his own designs, in the French tradition of the ébéniste.

Biography.

His father, Auguste Majorelle (d. 1879), was a cabinetmaker and potter who specialized in reproducing 18th-century furniture and ceramics. Majorelle trained as a painter and studied under Jean-François Millet at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1877-79).

Following his father's death in 1879, he abandoned painting and returned to Nancy to run the family business in partnership (until 1889) with his brother, Jules.

Louis Majorelle was a French designer and decorator working in the late 19th century.

They continued to produce furniture in Louis XV and Louis XVI revival styles but soon abandoned the production of ceramics.

Around 1894 Majorelle, under the influence of the Nancy glass- and cabinetmaker Emile Gallé, began to develop a more personal, Art Nouveau style by 1897, he seems to have abandoned the revival styles altogether.

The years between 1898 and 1908 were his most successful, by 1910 he had retail stores in Nancy, as well as in Paris, Lyon and Lille. Along with furniture, a range of objects including lighting,