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"Believe in the future and work for it" ... The oeuvre of Gustave Serrurier, more than fifty years before Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, blazed the trail to contemporary design. Gustave Serrurier, known as Serrurier-Bovy, was born in Liège in 1858 and died in the same city in 1910. He was one of most original figures in the Belgian avant-garde and the international art revival which characterised the decorative arts and architecture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Initially destined for architecture, he switched to the design and manufacture of furniture and décors, taking over the home decoration store run by his wife, Marie Bovy. He shook free of Art Nouveau aesthetics and the return to craftsmanship advocated by the Arts and Crafts movement to design furniture for the masses with a rational aesthetic, stripped of all superfluous ornament, which heralded the modern home. This richly illustrated book is the fruit of fifteen years of research by the owners of the Château of La Cheyrelle, remodelled by Gustave Serrurier. It traces the life of the architect¬designer and looks at all the facets of his oeuvre from his avant-garde thinking to his main furniture and architectural designs. A detailed analysis of his production unravels its complexity and restores Gustave Serrurier to his rightful place as a visionary designer at the dawn of the twentieth century.

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Assert man, excellent drawer, talented painter, André Sornay use his artistic skills for his designer work. During 50 years, his compositions started from Art Deco beginning until functional style of the 60s. Thierry Roche devotes him a book in order to rehabilitate this exceptional man.

Pierre Cardin, the inventor of "prêt-à-porter" whose graphically iconic initials personify his signature style, is best known for fashion and accessory design. However, he launched a unique furniture line during the 1970s that transposed his sculptural approach to fashion into domestic design. Futuristic forms combining traditional lacquer and cabinetmaking techniques were produced alongside revolutionary space-age designs featuring metal and plastics. Artistic director and catalyst, he challenged artists such as Serge Manzon, Christian Adam, Mana Pergay, Giacomo Passera, Claude Prevost and François Cante-Pacos to renew contemporary French furniture. Archival documents and newly-commissioned photography include rare designs produced in his Paris workshops and by the firms Yamada Shomei, ldeal Standard, Bruynzeel and Steiner. Pierre Cardin actively participated in this timely publication aimed at the burgeoning market for 1970s design.