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Adrian du Trait  

French, 16th century, male.

Active in Normandy at the beginning of the 16th century.

Sculptor, designer of ornamental architectural features.

Gaillon School.

In 1507 Adrian du Trait produced various pieces of furniture for the Château de Gaillon, which belonged to the cardinal of Amboise.

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Aguayo, Urban de  

Spanish, 17th century, male.

Active in Madridc.1623.

Sculptor (wood).

Best known for his furniture, particularly cabinets and wardrobes.

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Barat, Jacques  

French, 16th century, male.

Active in Lorraine.

Sculptor (wood).

Jacques Barat worked in 1577 for the Duchess of Brunswick, providing her with pieces of carved furniture.

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Barbe, Jacques  

French, 17th century, male.

Died 1679.

Sculptor (wood).

In 1668, Jacques Barbe became a member of the Académie de St-Luc in Paris. In 1670, he sculpted four large oak cabinets for the King's furniture store. He worked in St-Germain-en-Laye, Versailles and Clagny.

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Baseggio, Sante, the Younger  

Italian, 18th century, male.

Born 1 November 1749, in Ferrara.

Sculptor (wood), architect.

Son and pupil of Giuseppe Baseggio; studied under his father in Rovigo and subsequently in Rome. His carved frames and furniture were in great demand. He also worked extensively for churches in the region....

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Bell, Larry  

American, 20th century, male.

Born 6 December 1939, in Chicago.

Painter (mixed media), sculptor, designer (furniture).

Finish Fetish, Light and Space.

Larry Bell grew up in San Fernando Valley. In 1957 he joined the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles with the intention of becoming a draughtsman at Disney. However, inspired by the teaching of Robert Irwin and his peers, he resolved to become a painter and left the school before graduating in ...

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Björk, Karl-Olov  

Swedish, 20th century, male.

Born 1936, in Linköping.

Sculptor.

Björk started out studying industrial design before enrolling at the fine arts academy in Stockholm. His work consists mainly of monumental rounded, bulbous sculptures destined for architectural settings; because of their playful character, they are often to be found in schools and hospitals. He exhibited sculptures in plastic at the ...

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Blanc, Charles Sylvain  

French, 19th century, male.

Active in Paris.

Born 1863, in Besançon.

Sculptor. Statues, groups, medallions.

Charles Blanc studied modelling, drawing and sculpture at the school of industrial arts in Geneva from 1882.

In 1890 he won a gold medal from the Société des Gaudes, Besançon, for an allegorical group in marble. At the Paris salon of ...

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Bösch, August  

Swiss, 19th – 20th century, male.

Active in 1902 in Rome.

Born 20 August 1857, in Ebnat (Toggenburg).

Sculptor.

August Bösch served an apprenticeship as a stonemason before enrolling at the industrial arts college in Munich (1875-1877) and then at Munich academy; he moved to Paris in ...

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Bourcard, Daniel  

Swiss, 19th century, male.

Born 1856, in Geneva; died 1899, in Geneva.

Sculptor.

Bourcard attended the Canton School of Industrial Art and the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva from 1880 to 1886. He exhibited in Geneva, mostly between 1886 and 1889. His best-known works are ...

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Bucher, Franz Joseph  

Swiss, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 1760, in Kerns; died 1816.

Sculptor (wood).

Franz Joseph Bucher is best known for his sculpted furniture.

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Bugatti, Carlo  

Italian, 19th – 20th century, male.

Active in France from 1900.

Born 12 February 1856, in Milan; died 1940, in Molsheim (Bas-Rhin), France.

Painter, sculptor, designer of ornamental architectural features, decorative artist. Portraits. Furniture.

Orientalism, Art Nouveau.

Carlo Bugatti studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was originally interested in architecture, producing work that was heavily influenced by the strong styles of ancient Egypt and Islam. He later decided to devote himself to designing furniture and ornamentation. His talent was soon recognised and he was awarded many distinctions at exhibitions in London, Turin and at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. He sold his company in Milan and settled in Paris, then in 1910 in Compiègne. At the end of his life, beset by tragedies, including the suicide of his son Rembrandt in 1916, he went to live with his other son, Ettore, who had the car factory at Molsheim. Giovanni, Ettore's son and heir, was killed when testing a car in 1939....

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Bury, Claus  

German, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1946, in Gelnhausen.

Sculptor. Monuments.

Claus Bury trained as a goldsmith from 1962 to 1965, and attended Pforzheim college of industrial art and design from 1965 to 1969. He completed his training in London in 1969-1970. In 1971 he became a visiting teacher in several towns in Germany, the UK, Israel and the USA, and in ...

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Byse, Fanny (Mme)  

British, 19th century, female.

Born 1849, in London.

Sculptor. Busts.

Fanny Byse did not take up sculpture until she was about 44, when she began to attend the studio of Jules Salmson, director of the school of industrial arts in Geneva. She visited Rome, Florence and Paris. She produced many busts, which she exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, especially in ...

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Cauvet, Gilles Paul  

French, 18th century, male.

Born 17 April 1731, in Aix-en-Provence; died 15 November 1788, in Paris.

Architect, sculptor, draughtsman, designer of ornamental architectural features. Decorative motifs. Furniture.

Gilles Cauvet, sculptor to Monsieur, the king's brother, banished the mannered style from interior decoration, preferring classical simplicity. He was director of the Académie de St-Luc in Paris, and organised the Exhibition of ...

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Collet, Edouard Louis  

Swiss, 20th century, male.

Born 4 August 1876, in Geneva.

Sculptor, designer.

Edouard Louis Collet was a pupil at the school of industrial arts in Geneva and studied with Jean Auguste Dampt in Paris. He taught furniture design and woodcarving in Geneva, and produced numerous collections of furniture. A member of the society of decorative artists in Paris, he exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and was featured in the national exhibition mounted in Basel. Collet executed the monument to the fallen of the ...

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Cometti, Giacomo  

Italian, 19th century, male.

Active in Turin.

Born 23 October 1863; died 1938.

Sculptor.

Cometti was a pupil at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, and a professor of the school of industrial arts in that city. He received a medal in Antwerp. He was also a writer....

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Crocq, Jean  

French, 15th century, male.

Sculptor.

He started work in Bar-le-Duc in 1487. As sculptor to the Duke of Lorraine he collaborated in the decoration of the library of the ducal palace in Nancy, for which he made carved wooden furniture. In 1506 he was commissioned by Duke René to make the tomb of Charles the Bold for the Collegiate church of St-Georges, Nancy, a monument that was destroyed in ...

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Dampt, Jean Auguste  

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 2 January 1854, in Venarcy; died 26 September 1945, in Dijon.

Sculptor, furniture designer, jeweller. Busts, statues, groups.

Jean Auguste Dampt studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, and then under Jouffroy and Dubois at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris....

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Daudelin, Charles  

Canadian, 20th century, male.

Born 1920, in Granby (Quebec); died 2001.

Painter, sculptor.

Charles Daudelin studied woodcarving at the Furniture School in Canada under Borduas. He then studied under F. Léger in New York, under Laurens, then under Léger again in Paris. From 1964 to ...