Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886 - 1945) was a French architect of the avant-garde and was active mainly in the late twenties and early thirties.
Buildings designed by him have a strongly cubist form image.
He studied from 1903-1906 at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris. He presented his work in 1912 at the Salon d'Automne and got connected to the architects Réne Herbst and Pierre Chareau.
In 1923 he got a contract for his first building, the Villa of the Viscount Charles de Noailles. A year later he organized an exhibition of the Dutch artist group De Stijl. In 1925 he built the French Alfa Romeo subsidiary Rue Marbeuf and the Pavillion du Tourisme at the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs.
In 1929 he founded the Union des Artistes Modernes. He built the town house for the glass master Barillet, a friend of him in 1932.
In 1937, he was planning for World Expo pavilions which were decorated by Robert Delaunay.
Mallet-Stevens died in 1945 in his hometown of Paris.
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