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Jean Royère (1902-1981) was a French designer. In 1931, at the age of 29, Jean Royère (1902-1981) started a business as an interior designer. Read the full biography

Jean Royère (1902-1981) was a French designer. In 1931, at the age of 29, Jean Royère (1902-1981) started a business as an interior designer. He learned his new trade in the cabinet-making workshops of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris. In 1934, he designed the new layout of the Carlton Brasserie on the Champs Elysées and immediately found success. This was the beginning of an international career that was to last until the early 1970s. He also designed the interior of the Hôtel Saint-Georges in Beirut, Lebanon. A key figure of the avant-garde in the 1950s, Royère tackled all types of decoration work and opened branches in the Near East and Latin America.