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Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design

Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed theJewish Museum's latest
exhibition to critically examine the legacy of the French designer

Chareau's furnishings, such
as a daybed, side tables, chairs,
and lighting, are displayed
in vignettes throughout the
exhibition (above), as well
as his 1930 walnut table and
bookcase (bottom right).
A plan of the Maison de Verre
is laid out on the floor beneath
a screen displaying short films
of the building (above, right).

"Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design," a new exhibition
at the Jewish Museum in New York, examines the legacy of the
avant-garde French architect and designer Pierre Chareau (1883-
1950), renowned for his seminal work the Maison de Verre-an iconic
Paris landmark built in 1932. Delivering the first U.S. retrospective
devoted solely to Chareau, the exhibition was designed by
New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), exploiting various
forms of technology-including virtual reality, video projections,
and digital installations-to render an atmospheric context
for its comprehensive narrative.
Organized by guest curator Esther da Costa Meyer, "Pierre
Chareau" is partitioned into four sections, with each parcel showcasing
a distinct facet of the designer's broad scope of work, including
his streamlined furniture and lighting fixtures, his interior design
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and architecture, as well as his designs for film and examples
of the artworks he collected. Rather than resorting to full period
rooms, DS+R resituates these rare works for visitors by using historical
photographs and drawings to recreate four interiors designed by
Chareau-including the salon and garden of the Maison de Verre,
an interior living room, and his own office-in virtual reality.
Vignettes of Chareau's furniture designs-boasting a curious
composition that combines decorative details with a machinelike
aesthetic-are veiled by scrims of PVC-coated polyester weave, which
serve as screens for playfully projected silhouettes of people using
the furnishings. For the exhibition's finale, DS+R conveys the voyeuristic
transparency of Chareau's benchmark Maison de Verre through a
clinical lens by crafting a large-scale digital reconstruction. The exhibition
is on view now through March 26, 2017. -HAYLEY ARSENAULT
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