Pierre Chareau
Architect and furniture designer
French designer of furniture and lamps in wood, wrought iron and alabaster, and architect of the Maison de Verre.
Pierre Chareau first worked for an English furniture firm in Paris and exhibited his own furniture from 1919.
His Maison de Verre in Paris (1928–1932) became one of the most remarkable houses of modernism; he died in New York.