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3 unusual facts about Jean Badovici


Jean Badovici

Furthermore he designed two buildings (residential houses for himself) in Vézelay (1924) and in Paris near Pont de Sèvres (1934).

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Badovici cultivated relations to European avantgarde magazines like Wendingen (Netherlands) and Cahiers d’Art (France, founded in 1926) of his friend Christian Zervos.

Modern furniture

Designed in 1927 as a bedside table for the guest room in E-1027, the home Eileen Gray designed for herself (and Jean Badovici) in Cap Martin, France, the asymmetry of this piece is characteristic of her "non-conformist" design style in her architectural projects and furniture.



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