1. Pierre Guariche was a French designer, interior decorator and architect.
20 Facts About Pierre Guariche
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Pierre Guariche is perhaps best known for the residential lights that he designed for Pierre Disderot in the 1950s, but he was an innovative furniture designer and architect.
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Pierre Guariche was born in 1926, son of a family of Parisian goldsmiths.
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Pierre Guariche studied at the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs, where he was taught by Rene Gabriel.
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Pierre Guariche became a member of the Union des artistes modernes.
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Pierre Guariche joined the studio of another of his teachers, Marcel Gascoin.
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Pierre Guariche began to exhibit his own work in the Salon des Arts Menagers and the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs.
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Pierre Guariche proposed a complete suite of furniture for a house, which he called "Prefacto", as his first project for Airborne.
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Pierre Guariche designed a very successful line of chairs, armchairs and sofas for Airborne.
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In 1951 Pierre Guariche began to collaborate with Steiner, another major furniture manufacturer.
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Pierre Guariche designed the innovative chair called "tonneau", with a plastic and aluminum version in 1953 and a bent plywood version in 1954.
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Pierre Guariche was looking for a modern, straightforward and economical alternative to the opulence of traditional French designs and the hard chic of the prewar modernists.
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In 1954 Pierre Guariche formed an association called the Atelier de Recherche Plastique with Michel Mortier and Joseph-Andre Motte, whom he had met in the Gascoin studio.
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Pierre Guariche designed a range of office furniture for Charles Minvielle.
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In 1957 Pierre Guariche became artistic director for the Meurop furniture maker in Belgium.
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Pierre Guariche saw himself primarily as an architect, and his furniture reflects his concern with form and volume.
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Pierre Guariche helped with the design of a station in the winter sports resort La Plagne and the interior of the Firminy hospital.
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Pierre Guariche was named consulting architect for the Caisse des depots et consignations, Societe Nationale de Construction de logements pour les Travailleurs and Ogirep.
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Pierre Guariche taught at the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs in Paris and the Ecole Superieure d'Architecture in Tournai, Belgium.
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Pierre Guariche was awarded the Rene Gabriel prize in 1965.