Designer · France · 1879–1933
Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann
Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann (1879–1933) – French interior architect and furniture designer, leading creator of Parisian Art Deco.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1879–1933
- Country
- France
Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann was born in Paris on 28 August 1879 and died there on 15 November 1933. From 1897, he worked in the family painting and mirror-making firm, designing wallpaper and his first pieces of furniture; after his father's death in 1907, he took over the firm. In 1919, he founded the Ruhlmann & Laurent firm with the painter Pierre Laurent.
His furniture was produced by external workshops, and from 1927 by his own six-storey workshop. He used fine woods – Macassar ebony, maple and walnut burl – with inlays of ivory, tortoiseshell and shagreen. Towards the end of his career, he experimented with glass and chromed steel. At the 1925 Art Deco exhibition in Paris, an entire pavilion designed by Pierre Patout was devoted to him.
