Deco Raiders

摘要

In 1919 the death of his father forced a 17-year-old boy from Lyon named Andre Sornay to take over the family furniture-making business. He broke with the past and set his bold stamp on the firm's new models. By the time he showed a daring bedroom suite in macassar ebony at the seminal Paris exposition of modern decoration in 1925, Sornay was an acknowledged young master. It was this exposition that gave its name to the art deco style. But instead of putting Sornay on the map, the great Paris exposition took him off it. The Parisian press snubbed him as provincial. From then until his death in 2000, at age 98, Sornay never left Lyon, where he thrived commercially, designing strong pieces with clean lines.