Adrienne Górska ( pl, Adrianna Gurwik-Górska; 1899,
Moscow
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— 1969,
Beaulieu-sur-Mer
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) was a Polish architect who worked in the
Modernist and
Art Deco
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styles in Paris between the world wars. She was one of the few women of her day to receive a university diploma in architecture.
[Claire Bonney, "Adrienne Gorska: Milka Bliznakov Prize Final Report"]
''International Archive of Women in Architecture''. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
Biography
She was born as Adrianna Gurwik-Górska in 1899 in Moscow. In 1919, Górska emigrated together with her Polish family to Paris, where she studied under
Robert Mallet-Stevens
Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) was an influential French architect and designer.
Early life
Mallet-Stevens was born in Paris in a house called Maison-Laffitte (designed by François Mansart in the 17th century). H ...
at the
École Spéciale d'Architecture
The École spéciale d'architecture (ÉSA; formerly École centrale d'architecture) is a private school for architecture at 254, boulevard Raspail in Paris, France.
The school was founded in 1865 by engineer Emile Trélat as reaction against the ...
in Montparnasse. Graduating in 1924, she became one of the few women of her times to have an architectural diploma.
She designed an apartment and studio in Paris for her sister, the painter
Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara Łempicka (born Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Górska; 16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), better known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art De ...
, which she fitted out with chrome-plated furniture. She then worked with
Madame Sarah Lipska on the well-received renovation of a farmhouse for the American
Barbara Harrison converting the barn into a dining-room and finishing the bathroom in orange, yellow, and gold mosaics. Writing in London's ''The Architect and Building News'' in 1930, Howard Roberston and Frank Yerbury commented: "One might suggest that modernism was ruthless, even brutal, and that these attributes are masculine. But we have evidence in a series of striking modern interiors, that women are equally responding to the urge for modern expression."
["Adrienne Gorska"]
, ''Tamara de Lempicka: catalogue raisonné''. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
Górska took up employment with the architectural firm ''
Molinié et
Nicod
Jean George Pierre Nicod (1 June 1893, in France – 16 February 1924, in Geneva, Switzerland) was a French philosopher and logician, best known for his work on propositional logic and induction.
Biography
Nicod's main contribution to formal log ...
'', where she met
Pierre de Montaut, whom she married around 1934. They became known for the modern cinemas they designed for the Cinéac group. By 1932, Górska was a full member of the influential
French Union of Modern Artists. In 1937, she received a commission for the Polish pavilion at the
.
After her sister Tamara left for the United States in the summer of 1939, Górska and her husband left for Poland to design newsreel cinemas for
Pathé Nathan, but returned to France at the end of August just before the
German invasion of Poland.
Górska's worklist stops abruptly around that time but her niece Maria Krystyna "Kizette" de Lempicka remembers her funeral in southern France in 1969.
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See also
* Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara Łempicka (born Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Górska; 16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), better known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art De ...
* Pierre de Montaut
References
Literature
* "Adreinne Górska de Montant"" in Byars, Mel (2004). ''The Design Encyclopedia'' with references, New York: The Museum of Modern Art. ,
* Jean-Jacques Meusy, "Cinéac : un concept, une architecture", ''Les Cahiers de la Cinémathèque'', n°66, 1997, pp. 91–121.
*Pierre de Montaut et Adrienne Górska, ''Vingt salles de cinéma'', préface de Germaine Kellerson, Société française d'éditions, 1937.
External links
Adrienne Górska's worklist
with illustrations from Claire Bonnet, IAWA.
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1899 births
1969 deaths
Architects from Paris
People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France
People who emigrated to escape Bolshevism
People from Alpes-Maritimes
20th-century French architects
Art Deco architects
École Spéciale d'Architecture alumni
Modernist architects from France