Robert mallet stevens bio

French architect and designer (1886–1945)

Robert Mallet-Stevens (24 March 1886 – 8 February 1945) was a French architect and designer.

Early life

Mallet-Stevens was born in Paris. His father and his grandfather were art collectors in Paris and Brussels. His great-uncles were the Belgian painters Joseph Stevens and Alfred Stevens.

He received his formal training at the École spéciale d'Architecture in Paris between 1903 and 1906.

Robert mallet stevens bio

He was primarily interested in collaboration between different art forms according to the precepts established by Viollet le Duc who had created the school with Émile Trélat in 1865. At the school he wrote Guerande about relationships between the different forms of art.^[1]

Career

In 1924, Mallet-Stevens published a magazine called La Gazette Des 7 Arts and at the same time with the help of Ricciotto Canudo founded the Club des amis du 7ème art.

A Paris street in the 16th arrondissement, Rue Malle