Famous in France.Famous in France (second only to Corb), Robert Mallet-Stevens was one of the most influential figures of the inter-war era, designing a series of imposing villas for rich clients, together with shops, casinos, hotels, furniture, film sets and pavilions for the 1937 Paris Expo. Now the subject of a scholarly and revealing retrospective LAW, RETROSPECTIVE. A retrospective law is one that is to take effect, in point of time, before it was passed. 2. Whenever a law of this kind impairs the obligation of contracts, it is void. 3 Dall. 391. at the Centre Pompidou, the world of Mallet-Stevens is brought vividly to life, through an array of drawings, photographs, maquettes, furniture and film extracts. His masterpiece is the Paris street that still bears his name in the upmarket up·mar·ket adj. Appealing to or designed for high-income consumers; upscale: "He turned up in well-cut clothes . . . and upmarket felt hats" New Yorker. 16th arrondissement ar·ron·disse·ment n. 1. The chief administrative subdivision of a department in France. 2. A municipal subdivision in some large French cities. , an ensemble of streamlined mansions with reinforced-concrete frames and mod cons mod cons Noun, pl Informal modern conveniences, such as hot water and heating mod cons (Brit) npl (= modern conveniences) → Komfort m , built between 1926 and 1934. Shown here is the hotel particulier for the Martel brothers, now restored to its original glory. C.S. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Robert Mallet-Stevens Architect, 1886-1945, Centre Pompidou, Paris, until 29 August www.cnac-gp.fr |
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