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{{Short description|French architect and designer}}
[[File:Beauvallon Golf Club clubhuis 1926.jpg|thumb|275px|Clubhouse of Beauvallon golf course, built in [[Sainte-Maxime]] in 1926-1927]]
[[File:Maison de Verre1.JPG|thumb|275px|[[Maison de Verre]] 1928-1932]]
[[File:Ufficio biblioteca di Pierre Chareau.jpg|thumb|275px|Bureau-bibliothèque de Pierre Chareau, [[Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris|Musée des Arts Décoratifs]], Paris]]
 
'''Pierre Chareau''' (4 August 1883 – 24 August 1950) was a French [[architect]] and [[designer]].

==Early life==
Chareau was born in [[Bordeaux]], [[France]]. He apprenticed at a Paris-based British furniture manufacturer, Waring & Gillow,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Roberta |title=The Virtual Splendor of Paris's Glass House |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/arts/design/pierre-chareaus-legacy-beyond-the-house-of-glass.html |website=New York Times |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref> after he failed his entrance exams to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.<ref name=cultured>{{cite web |last1=Laster |first1=Paul |title=Architect Pierre Chareau's Modernist Masterpieces Arrive at the Jewish Museum |url=https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2016/11/26/pierre-chareau |website=Cultured |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref>

==Work==
Chareau designed the first house in France made of steel and glass, the [[Maison de Verre]].{{cn|date=August 2022}}

Chareau was a member of [[Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne]].

== Move to United States ==
Chareau and his wife fled Nazi-occupied Paris to Marseilles and Morocco and eventually settled in the New York. [[Robert Motherwell]] commissioned a house in the Hamptons, which would be Chareau's last. Unable to secure another commission, he and his wife survived on the income she made from giving cooking lessons. Though he made efforts to show his work at MOMA and at the Musee National d'Art Moderne in Paris, he died in 1950, relatively unknown and penniless.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ourousseff |first1=Nicolai |title=The Best House in Paris |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/arts/design/26ouro.html |website=New York Times |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref>

== Exhibitions ==
In 2016, [[Jewish Museum (Manhattan)|The Jewish Museum]] in [[New York City]] mounted the exhibition, [http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/pierre-chareau-modern-architecture-and-design Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design] which explored the architect's work.  

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Design of the 20th Century|first1=Charlotte|last1=Fiell|first2=Peter|last2=Fiell|publisher=Taschen|location=Köln|edition=25th anniversary|year=2005|pages=156–157|isbn=9783822840788|oclc=809539744}}
*{{cite book|first=Brian Brace|last=Taylor|title=Pierre Chareau|publisher=Taschen|year=1998}}
*{{cite book|first=Dominique|last=Vellay|title=La Maison de Verre|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=2007}}
*{{cite book|first1=Marc|last1=Vellay|first2=Kenneth|last2=Frampton|author-link2=Kenneth Frampton|title=Pierre Chareau. Architect and Craftsman 1883-1950|publisher=Rizzoli|year=1990}}

==External links==
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* [http://pierrechareau-edition.com/ Pierre Chareau] at pierrechareau-edition.com

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[[Category:20th-century French architects]]
[[Category:Architects from Bordeaux]]
[[Category:1883 births]]
[[Category:1950 deaths]]
[[Category:Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne members]]


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