20 Facts About Michel Mortier

Michel Mortier was a French furniture designer, interior designer and architect who was known for his modern designs.

Michel Mortier was admitted to the Ecole des arts appliques a l'industrie, where he studied under Rene Gabriel and Louis Sognot.

Michel Mortier joined the Studium-Louvre in 1944, the workshop for modern decorative art run by Etienne-Henri Martin for the Grands Magasins du Louvre department store.

Michel Mortier was discovered by Marcel Gascoin, a central figure in French post-war design who surrounded himself with young talent to produce furniture sets.

From 1949 to 1954 Michel Mortier was the first director of Arhec.

Michel Mortier won the gold medal at the Milan Triennale in 1954.

The ARP had an exhibit at the Salon des arts menagers in 1954, where Michel Mortier showed a modular storage unit with an ingenious assembly system that was the origin for a range of products by Minvielle, a leading brand in the 1950s and 1960s.

Michel Mortier became artistic director of the store La Maison Francaise 55, and designed many products for leading manufacturers including chairs for Steiner and lights for Disderot and Verre Lumiere.

In 1959 Michel Mortier founded his own interior design agency, the Habitation esthetique industrielle mobilier.

Michel Mortier worked as a freelance journalist in his spare time.

Michel Mortier participated in the Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Self-taught, Michel Mortier designed several elegant private homes in the 1970s, and in 1977 obtained a diploma as an architect from the Ile-de-France regional architecture council.

Michel Mortier taught interior design at the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs in Paris, the Ecole des arts appliques and the Ecole superieure d'arts graphiques Penninghen.

Michel Mortier became a painter towards the end of his life.

Michel Mortier died on 22 May 2015 at the age of 90.

Michel Mortier was survived by his children Christine Taieb, Richard Mortier and Charlotte Mortier.

Michel Mortier was among the young post-war designers who rejected Art Deco and the popular neo-Louis XVI and Louis XIII styles.

Michel Mortier developed a child's room in the 1970s that was considered very avant-garde at the time, with flat colored surfaces that define the different uses of the built-in units: storage, work and play.

Michel Mortier's best known product is the Lampe 10576 produced by Verre Lumiere.

Michel Mortier's work is held in major public collections including the Centre national des arts plastiques, the Musee d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne Metropole and the Collection nationale des arts decoratifs.