Jean-Charles Moreux
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Jean-Charles Moreux was a French architect, and a representative of a rigorous and poetic classicism.
and worked for Jacques Doucet
, baron Robert Rothschild
and vicomte Charles de Noailles.
Life
Gaining a diploma at the École des Beaux-arts de Paris in 1922, he was a friend of Jean LurçatJean Lurçat
Jean Lurçat was a French artist noted for his role in the revival of contemporary tapestry.-Biography:He was born in Bruyères, Vosges, the son of Lucien Jean Baptiste Lurçat and Marie Emilie Marguerite L'Hote. He was the brother of André Lurçat, who became an architect...
and worked for Jacques Doucet
Jacques Doucet
Jacques Doucet may refer to:* Jacques Doucet , French fashion designer* Jacques Doucet , longtime play-by-play announcer for the Montreal Expos...
, baron Robert Rothschild
Robert Rothschild
Baron Robert Rothschild was a Belgian diplomat. He helped to draft the Treaty of Rome of 1957, the foundation of the European Economic Community in 1958.-Biography:...
and vicomte Charles de Noailles.
Works
- Saint-Cloud, maison Brugier, 1926-1927.
- Saint-Leu-la-Fôret, auditorium for Wanda LandowskaWanda LandowskaWanda Landowska was a Polish harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century...
, 1926-1927. - Paris, avenue Marigny, hôtel particulier for baron Robert Rothschild, 1927-1928.
- Château de Maulny at Montbizot, (Sarthe), 1929-1930.
- Paris, villa Seurat, studio-house for the sculptor Robert CouturierRobert CouturierRobert Couturier was a French sculptor. He was born in Angoulême.-Biography:In 1920, he joined the École Estienne à Paris and trained in lithography. On his father's death he was forced to interrupt his studies and joined a lithography studio in Paris. In 1929 he met the sculptor Alfred Janniot...
, 1937-1938. - Saint-Germain-en-Laye La Thébaïde, hôtel particulier for the Véra brothers, (André and Paul), 1924.
- Paris, Hôtel particulierHôtel particulierIn French contexts an hôtel particulier is an urban "private house" of a grand sort. Whereas an ordinary maison was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hôtel particulier was often free-standing, and by the 18th century it...
for Bernard Reichenbach, rue Alfred-Dehodencq, 1930-1932. - Paris, 6, rue de Miromesnil, shop-front of ColetteColetteColette was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette . She is best known for her novel Gigi, upon which Lerner and Loewe based the stage and film musical comedies of the same title.-Early life and marriage:Colette was born to retired military officer Jules-Joseph...
's shop, 1936 - Paris, jardins des Gobelins (square René-Le Gall), 1936-1938.
- Paris, pavillon de la Martinique, île des Cygnes, for the "exposition internationnale des arts et des techniques dans la vie moderne", 1937.
- Cairo, open-air restaurant for the hôtel Sheperd, 1947-1948.
- London, library of the Institut de France, Queensberry place, 1949-1950.
- Paris, musée du Louvre, rearrangement of the salle Rubens, 1952–1953, (destroyed).
- Paris, musée du Louvre, rotonde des Petits cabinets, 14 paintings from the studiolo of duke Frederico da Montefeltre (1422–1482), 9 by Joos van WassenhoveJoos van WassenhoveJustus van Gent , Justus or Jodocus of Ghent, or Giusto da Guanto was an Early Netherlandish painter who later worked in Italy....
and 5 attributed to Pedro BerruguetePedro BerruguetePedro Berruguete was a Spanish painter; his art is regarded as a transitional style between gothic and Renaissance. Born in Paredes de Nava, Spain, he went to Italy in 1480 and worked in Federico III da Montefeltro's court in Urbino, where he could see some works by Melozzo da Forlì...
, 1953 (arrangement destroyed).