The École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ÉnsAD, also known as Arts Decos', École des Arts Décoratifs) is a public
grande école
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of
art
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There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
and
design
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of
PSL Research University
Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL University or simply PSL) is a public research university based in Paris, France. It was established in 2010 and formally created as a university in 2019. It is a collegiate university with 11 constituen ...
. The school is located in the Rue d'Ulm in Paris.
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The ''École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs'' played a major role in the development of the
Art Deco
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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
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,
photography
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,
scenography
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,
industrial design
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,
communication design
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,
interactive design
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,
video
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,
interior design
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,
fashion
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,
textile
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and
engraving
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.
History
The E.N.S.A.D. has its roots in the ''
École royale gratuite de dessin'' (Royal Free School of Design) founded in 1766 by
Jean-Jacques Bachelier, confirmed in 1767 by letters patent from
Louis XV of France
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached ...
. 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
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Léon Deshairs
Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to:
Places
Europe
* León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León
* Province of León, Spain
* Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...
−1940 and 1943–1945
*
Léon Moussinac 1945–1959
*
Jacques Adnet
Jacques Adnet (20 April 1900 – 29 October 1984) was a French art deco modernist designer, architect and interior designer.
He was known for his furniture designs in leather.
Education
An icon of luxurious French Modernism, Jacques Adnet ...
1959–1970
*
Michel Tourlière
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* Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name)
* Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers)
* Míchel (footballer, born 1963), ...
*
Richard Peduzzi
Richard Peduzzi (born 1943 in Argentan, Orne) is a French scenographer. He was the director of the French Academy in Rome from September 2002 to August 2008.
Since 1969, he has decorated the sets designed by Patrice Chéreau, and together they ...
1990–2002
*
Patrick Raynaud Patrick may refer to:
*Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name
* Patrick (surname), list of people with this name
People
*Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint
* Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick ...
2002–2008
*
Geneviève Gallot
Genevieve (french: link=no, Sainte Geneviève; la, Sancta Genovefa, Genoveva; 419/422 AD –
502/512 AD) is the patroness saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Her feast is on 3 January.
Genevieve was born in Nanterre an ...
2008–2013
*
Marc Partouche Marc or MARC may refer to:
People
* Marc (given name), people with the first name
* Marc (surname), people with the family name
Acronyms
* MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging,
* MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system o ...
2014-2018 :
*
Emmanuel Tibloux
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2018 -
Notable teachers
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Pierre Bernard (graphic designer)
Pierre Bernard (25 February 1942 – 23 November 2015) was a French graphic artist and designer. He was a member and then the manager for the L’Atelier Création Graphique in Paris, an organization he founded along with Dirk Behage and Fokk ...
*
Rosa Bonheur
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*
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Marcel Gromaire
Marcel Gromaire (24 July 1892 – 11 April 1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects and is often associated with Social Realism, but Gromaire can be said to have created an independent oeuvre distinct from groups a ...
*
André Lurçat
André Lurçat (August 27, 1894 – July 11, 1970) was a French modernist architect, landscape architect, furniture designer, city planner, and founding member of CIAM. He was active in the rebuilding in French cities after World War II. He was th ...
*
Pierre Louis Rouillard
Pierre Louis Rouillard (Paris, 16 January 1820 – Paris, 2 June 1881) 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, ...
, professor of sculpture from 1840 to 1881
*
Joseph-André Motte
Joseph-André Motte (6 January 1925 – 1 June 2013) was a French furniture designer and interior designer and ranks among the most influential and innovative figures of post-war French design.
Joseph-André Motte was born in Saint-Bonnet-en-C ...
furniture and interior designer
*
Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck (; born 18 January 1949) is a French industrial architect and designer known for his wide range of designs, including interior design, architecture, household objects, furniture, boats and other vehicles.
Life
Starck was born on ...
*
Roger Tallon
Roger Tallon (6 March 1929 – 20 October 2011) was a French industrial designer.
Biography
After studying as an engineer (1944–1950), Tallon was employed by Caterpillar France and DuPont. In 1953, he joined Technès, the technical ...
Notable alumni
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Philippe Apeloig, graphic designer
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Ximena Armas
Ximena Armas (born 29 July 1946 in Santiago, Chile) 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 ...
, painter
*
Antun Augustinčić
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, sculptor
*
Pierre Bismuth, artist
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François Boisrond, painter
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Ronan Bouroullec, designer
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Yvonne Canu, painter
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Nina Childress
Nina Childress (born Christine Childress, 1961) is a French-American visual artist, based in Paris, France.
Life and work
Born in Pasadena, California, United States, she studied in Paris at the Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs ( EN ...
, painter
*
Claude Closky
Claude Closky (born 22 May 1963) is a French Contemporary Artist who lives and works in Paris, France.
Reception
Closky won the "Grand prix des Arts plastiques" (1999) and the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2005) awarded by the ADIAF.
Dike Blair wro ...
, artist
*
Paul Coze, artist
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Leon Dabo
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, painter
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Léon Delarbre
Léon Delarbre (1889–1974) was a painter, museum curator, and World War II resistance fighter. After a career as a museum conservator and teacher in his hometown of Belfort, he joined the French resistance in 1941. Arrested in 1944, he was h ...
, painter, museum curator
*
Philippe Dupuy
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Their colla ...
, cartoonist
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Benoît-Pierre Émery, graphic designer
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Vincent Ferniot
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Early life
Vincent Ferniot was born on July 14, 1960, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. His parents, Jean Ferniot and Christiane Collange, are journalis ...
, actor, presenter, writer
*
Jean-Paul Goude
Jean-Paul Goude (born 8 December 1938 in Montreuil (France)) is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, advertising film director and event designer. He worked as art director at ''Esquire'' magazine in New York City during the 1 ...
, photographer and director
*
René Georges Hermann-Paul, artist and illustrator
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John Howe, illustrator and author
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Camille Henrot
Camille Henrot (born 1978) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris and New York.
Biography
Henrot was born in 1978 in Paris, France. She attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs where she studied film animation and s ...
, artist
*
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French artist who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems.
Education
Pierre Huyghe (pronounced ''hweeg'') was born in Paris in 1962. He lives ...
, artist
*
Jean Jansem, painter
*
Marcel Ichac
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, director and photographer
*
Richard Isanove
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Early life
Richard Isanove was born in the south of France, studied film and animation at the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs ...
, cartoonist
*
Claire Keane
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, illustrator
*
Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...
, artist
*
Georges Léonnec, illustrator
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Annette Messager, artist
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Morteza Momayez
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, graphic designer
*
Fernand Mourlot
Fernand Mourlot (; 5 April 1895 – 4 December 1988), son of Jules Mourlot, was the director of Mourlot Studios and founder of Editions Mourlot.
Early life and career
Fernand Mourlot was born on 5 April 1895 in Paris, France. He was the si ...
, lithographer, publisher
*
Thierry Mugler
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, fashion designer
*
Victor Nicolas
Victor Edmond Nicolas (2 February 1906 – 16 July 1979) was a French sculptor.
Biography
Victor Nicolas was born in Brignoles, the son of Nicolas Bertin (1879–1918), professor of mathematics Mort pour la France, and Victorine Tardieu ( ...
, sculptor
*
Francis Picabia
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, artist
* Arthur de Pins, director of the 2000 animated short film ''
Geraldine''
*
Charles Ethan Porter
Charles Ethan Porter (1847 – March 6, 1923) was an American painter who specialized in still life painting. A student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, he was one of the first African Americans to exhibit there. He was the on ...
, painter
*
Robert Poughéon, painter
*
Alfred-Georges Regner
Alfred-Georges Regner (22 February 1902, in Amiens – 20 September 1987, in Bayeux), was a French surrealist painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or ...
, painter engraver
*
Pierre Roy
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New is an adjective re ...
, painter
*
Émile Savitry
Émile Savitry (1903–1967) was a French photographer and painter.
Early life
Born in Saigon, in 1903, into the wealthy colonial industrialist family of Felix Marius Alphonse Dupont and Cecile Leonie Audra, Émile renamed himself Savitry to go a ...
, painter, photographer
*
Jacques Tardi
Jacques Tardi (; born 30 August 1946) is a French comic artist. He is often credited solely as Tardi.
Biography
Tardi was born on 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme. After graduating from the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon and the Éco ...
, cartoonist
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Raymond Templier
Raymond Templier (22 April 1891 - 22 May 1968) was a French jewellery designer. He is best known for his Cubic Art Deco and abstract designs in the 1920s and 1930s. He built coral reefs as well.
Early life
Templier was born into a family of jewell ...
, jewelry designer
*
Adrien Voisin
Adrien Alexandre Voisin (1890–1979), was an American sculptor. He was known for his bronze work, and had been one of the lead architectural sculptors at Hearst Castle.
Early life and education
Adrien Alexandre Voisin was born on May 8, 1979 i ...
(1890–1979), American sculptor.
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Jean-Didier Wolfromm, critic, writer
References
External links
Official ENSAD Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs
Art schools in Paris
Design schools in France
Decorative arts
Grands établissements
University of Paris
1766 establishments in France
Schools in Paris
Educational institutions established in 1766