École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
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The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (also known as Arts Decos’, Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, E.N.S.A.D.) is a public university of art
and design
and is one of the most prestigious French
grande école. The school is located Rue d'Ulm in Paris
, France
.
design movement in the 1920s and in the creation of new design concepts.
The School has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of animation
, photography
, scenography
, industrial design
, communication design
, interactive design, video
, interior design
, fashion
, textile
and engraving
.
, confirmed in 1767 by letters patent from Louis XV of France
. Its founder's aim was to develop crafts relating to the arts in order to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Through a rigorous and demanding apprenticeship in the Arts, the school strove to combine technique and culture, intelligence and sensitivity, so as to enable the more gifted artisans to develop into creative artists. After several changes of name, in 1877 the school became the National School of Decorative Arts (École nationale des arts décoratifs) before taking its present name of ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs) in 1927.
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
and design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
and is one of the most prestigious French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
grande école. The school is located Rue d'Ulm in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
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.
Profile
The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs played a major role in the development of the Art DecoArt Deco
Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...
design movement in the 1920s and in the creation of new design concepts.
The School has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
, photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, scenography
Scenography
-Usage:Whilst also aligned with the professional practice of the scenographer, it is important to distinguish the individual elements that comprise the 'design' of a performance event from the term 'scenography' which is as an artistic perspective concerning the visual, experiential and spatial...
, industrial design
Industrial design
Industrial design is the use of a combination of applied art and applied science to improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of a product, but it may also be used to improve the product's marketability and production...
, communication design
Communication design
Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development which is concerned with how media intermission such as printed, crafted, electronic media or presentations communicate with people...
, interactive design, video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
, interior design
Interior design
Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
, fashion
Fashion
Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
, textile
Textile
A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands...
and engraving
Engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...
.
History
The E.N.S.A.D. has its roots in the Royal Free School of Art (École royale gratuite de dessin) founded in 1766 by Jean-Jacques BachelierJean-Jacques Bachelier
Jean-Jacques Bachelier was a French painter and director of the porcelain factory at Sèvres.Admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1752, he founded an art school using his own means in Paris in 1765 for the artisans in the historic collège d'Autun , which survived until the...
, confirmed in 1767 by letters patent from Louis XV of France
Louis XV of France
Louis XV was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, his first cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723...
. Its founder's aim was to develop crafts relating to the arts in order to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Through a rigorous and demanding apprenticeship in the Arts, the school strove to combine technique and culture, intelligence and sensitivity, so as to enable the more gifted artisans to develop into creative artists. After several changes of name, in 1877 the school became the National School of Decorative Arts (École nationale des arts décoratifs) before taking its present name of ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs) in 1927.
Directors
- Léon Deshairs -1940 and 1943-1945
- Léon Moussinac 1945-1959
- Jacques AdnetJacques AdnetJacques Adnet was a French art deco modernist designer, architect and interior designer.He was known for his furniture designs in leather.-Education:...
1959-1970 - Michel Tourlière
- Richard PeduzziRichard PeduzziRichard Peduzzi is a French scenographer. He was the director of the French Academy in Rome from September 2002 to August 2008....
1990-2002 - Patrick Raynaud 2002-2008
- Geneviève Gallot 2008-
Notable teachers
- Pierre Bernard (graphic designer)Pierre Bernard (graphic designer)Pierre Bernard is a prominent and internationally acclaimed French graphic artist and designer. He was a member and then the manager for the L’Atelier Création Graphique in Paris, France, an organization he founded along with Dirk Behage and Fokke Draaijer. He was the recipient of the 2006 Prix...
- Louis Briat
- Cassandre
- Marcel GromaireMarcel GromaireMarcel Gromaire was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism.-Early life:...
- André LurçatAndré LurçatAndré Lurçat was a French modernist architect, landscape architect, furniture designer and city planner, a founding member of CIAM, and active in the rebuilding in French cities after World War II...
- Pierre Louis RouillardPierre Louis RouillardPierre Louis Rouillard was a French sculptor known for his sculptures of animals. He was one of a "school of French animalières" which also included Pierre-Jules Mêne, Antoine-Louis Barye, Auguste Caïn and François Pompon...
, professor of sculpture from 1840 to 1881 - Philippe StarckPhilippe StarckPhilippe Patrick Starck is a French product designer and probably the best known designer in the New Design style...
- Roger TallonRoger Tallon- Biography :After studying as an engineer , Tallon was employed by Caterpillar France and DuPont. In 1953, he joined Technès, the technical and aesthetic studies office founded in 1949 by the father of industrial aesthetics Jacques Viénot, and Jean Parthenay...
- Jean Widmer
Notable alumni
- Ronan Bouroullec, designer
- Michael AmzalagM/M ParisM/M is an art and design partnership consisting of Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag , established in Paris in 1992....
, graphic designer (part of M/M ParisM/M ParisM/M is an art and design partnership consisting of Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag , established in Paris in 1992....
) - Philippe ApeloigPhilippe ApeloigPhilippe Apeloig is a graphic designer born in Paris in November 1962.Apeloig studied at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués and the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs...
, graphic designer - Georges Arditi, painter
- Ximena ArmasXimena ArmasXimena Armas, born 29 July 1946 in Santiago , is a Chilean painter.-Biography:Ximena Armas Fernández first attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes at the Universidad de Chile, then the Escuela de Artes at the Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, where she was trained by Mario Carreño, Eduardo...
, painter - Antun AugustinčićAntun AugustincicAntun Augustinčić was a prominent Croatian sculptor. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Frano Kršinić he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th century...
, sculptor - Mathias AugustyniakM/M ParisM/M is an art and design partnership consisting of Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag , established in Paris in 1992....
, graphic designer (part of M/M ParisM/M ParisM/M is an art and design partnership consisting of Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag , established in Paris in 1992....
) - Ronan Bouroullec, designer
- Julien Baillargeon, director
- Denis Bajram, cartoonist
- Pierre BismuthPierre BismuthPierre Bismuth is a contemporary artist. Through efficient and often humorous gestures, Bismuth interrupts pre-established codes of reading the images and objects that pervade daily life, from headline stories in newspapers to magazine clippings from gentlemen's magazines, to even the color of the...
, artist - François Boisrond, painter
- Louis Cane, artist
- Claude CloskyClaude CloskyClaude Closky is a French artist born in Paris in 1963 who specialized in contemporary art. Frieze Magazine has stated that "Most of Closky’s works explore repetition, accumulation, and alphabetical, numerical or binary classifications." -Monographs:...
, artist - Leon DaboLeon DaboLeon Dabo was an American tonalist landscape artist best known for his paintings of New York, particularly the Hudson Valley. His paintings were known for their feeling of spaciousness, with large areas of the canvas that had little but land, sea, or clouds...
, painter - Jean-Claude Denis, cartoonist
- Philippe Dupuy, cartoonist
- Benoit Pierre EmeryBenoit Pierre EmeryBenoit Pierre Emery is a French art director and a fashion designer based in Paris, France.-Biography:A graduate of the Royal College of Art and of the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Benoit Emery began his career as a freelancer, working as an art director for Canal + and Louis...
, graphic designer - Laurent Fetis, graphic designer
- Jean-François Guiton, artist
- Jean-Paul GoudeJean-Paul GoudeJean-Paul Goude is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer and advertising film director. He created several well-known campaigns for brands such as Perrier, Citroën and Chanel....
, photographer and director - Emmanuel Guibert, cartoonist
- René Georges Hermann-PaulHermann-PaulRené Georges Hermann-Paul was a French artist. He was born in Paris and died in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.Recent efforts to catalog the work of Hermann-Paul reveal an artist of considerable scope. He was a well-known illustrator whose work appeared in numerous newspapers and periodicals...
, artist and illustrator - Pierre HuyghePierre HuyghePierre Huyghe is a French artist who works in a variety of media from film and video to public interventions. He won the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Museum in 2002.-Biography:...
, artist - Marcel IchacMarcel IchacMarcel Ichac was a French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director. Born in Rueil, France, Ichac was one of the first people to introduce electronic music in cinema with Ondes Martenot for Karakoram and released the first French movie in CinemaScope, Nouveaux Horizons .- Filmography...
(1906-1994), director and photographer - Max Ingrand, master of glass and interior designer
- Richard Isanove, cartoonist
- Fernand LégerFernand LégerJoseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style...
, artist - Georges LéonnecGeorges LéonnecGeorges Léonnec , the brother of the novelist Félix Léonnec, began his career as a cartoonist selling drawings to newspapers in 1899. After participating in World War I he worked as an illustrator for the magazine La Vie Parisienne. He worked for several other publications including Fantasio and Le...
, illustrator - Annette MessagerAnnette MessagerAnnette Messager is a French artist who was born in 1943. She is known mainly for her installation work which often incorporates photographs, prints and drawings, and various materials. Messager has exhibited and published her work extensively...
, artist - Morteza MomayezMorteza MomayezMorteza Momayez was an Iranian graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Iranian Graphic Design Society and held a membership to Alliance Graphique Internationale...
, graphic designer - Fernand MourlotFernand MourlotFernand Mourlot , son of Jules Mourlot, was the director of Mourlot Studios and founder of Editions Mourlot.- Early life and career :...
, lithographer, publisher - Victor NicolasVictor NicolasVictor Edmond Nicolas was a French sculptor.- Biography :Victor Nicolas was born in Brignoles, the son of Nicolas Bertin , professor of mathematics, Mort pour la France, and Victorine Tardieu , teacher...
, sculptor - Francis PicabiaFrancis PicabiaFrancis Picabia was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements.- Early life :...
, artist - Charles Ethan PorterCharles Ethan PorterCharles Ethan Porter , was an African American still life painter.Porter was born in or about 1847 in Hartford, Connecticut. His family moved to the nearby village of Rockville by the early 1850s...
, painter - Alfred-Georges RegnerAlfred-Georges RegnerAlfred-Georges Regner , was a French surrealist painter and engraver.-Books of Regner's work:* Georges Turpin. A-G. Regner. Les palettes nouvelles. Paris: R. Debresse, 1951. ...
, painter engraver - Pierre RoyPierre Roy (painter)Pierre Roy was a French painter, illustrator and designer. His paintings, containing mysterious juxtapositions of objects, often inspired by memories of his childhood, show some affiliation to Surrealism and Magic Realism.Born in Nantes, he moved to Paris and studied at the École des Arts...
, painter - Alain Seguin, painter
- Jacques TardiJacques TardiJacques Tardi is a French comics artist, born 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme. He is often credited solely as Tardi.-Biography:After graduating from the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, he started writing comics in 1969, at the...
, cartoonist - Martin Veyron, cartoonist
- Éric WengerEric WengerEric Wenger is a computer programmer.-Biography:Eric Wenger, with Ken Musgrave, created the Bryce software in 1994. Wenger later met and worked with software artist Kai Krause to design a basic user interface for the software. He later went on to create several music applications for the Apple...
, artist
External links
- Official ENSAD Website
- Students projects (VIDEOS)