Jacques Carlu
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Jacques Carlu (7 April 1890 Bonnières-sur-Seine – 3 December 1976 Paris) was a French architect and designer, working mostly in Art Deco style, active in France, Canada, and in the United States.
Biography
Through the 1910s Carlu studied on site with British city planner
Beaux Arts Institute of Design in New York. With intensive transatlantic travel, Carlu becomes a sort of ambassador of Streamline Moderne
style.
His most famous building is likely the Palais de Chaillot,
Alfred Bottiau.[1]
His other buildings include the 1957
Université Paris-Dauphine. Among his important interiors are the 1930 Eaton Auditorium in Toronto (now known as "The Carlu"), the 1943 French Nationality Room at the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning
, and other venues.
Carlu is buried at the Passy Cemetery with his spouse Anne. He was the brother of French graphic designer Jean Carlu.
Carlu was married to little-known artist Anne Carlu (née Peckard 1895-1972).[2] A mural of Anne's resides in the hall of the United Nations, Palais des Nations, in Geneva Switzerland.
References
- ^ Archives d'architecture du XXe siècle, Volume 1 By Institut français d'architecture, Maurice Culot, page 158
- ^ Landru, Philippe (15 May 2011). "CARLU Famille". www.landrucimetieres.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
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