Andre dubreuil biography

          At the age of 18 he departed his native France and moved to London where he was educated at the Inchbald School of Design....

          French, b.

        1. The son of a Lyon pharmaceutical and medical research family, Dubreuil moved from France to London as teenager to study drawing and draughtsmanship at the.
        2. At the age of 18 he departed his native France and moved to London where he was educated at the Inchbald School of Design.
        3. André Dubreuil is not only a designer but also a craftsman.
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          5. No one ever purchased an André Dubreuil chair for its comfort or practicality. His creations, although constructed from metals, are delicate, elegantly proportioned, exquisitely balanced and unashamedly ornamental.

          ‘My furniture will never be defined by its function,’ Dubreuil once said. ‘The eye needs to be attracted, hooked and focused on the surfaces of things.’ And what shimmering surfaces. What delight for the eyes.

          Dubbed poète du fer (poet of iron) by biographer Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dubreuil created highly inventive pieces, both fantastical and classical – bold adventures in metallurgy and glass, referencing Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, the silhouettes of André-Charles Boulle, French ébénisterie (cabinetmaking), Louis XV Rocaille style, Jules Verne’s monsters, Jean Cocteau and cocktail society, often in a single, extraordinary expression of a copper screen, enamelled armoir