Marc du Plantier ( 1901-1975) After training as an architect at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and as a painter at the Académie Julian, Marc du Plantier began his career in 1928. His architectural vocabulary, characterized by rigorous lines, color, indirect light and the interplay of mirrors, was already apparent in his first projects. This art reached its apogee on rue du Belvédère, where Anne and Marc du Plantier entertained the Tout-Paris of the ’30s. This was followed by the apartment overlooking the Bay of Algiers, regarded as one of the decorative peaks of his time; the Madrid palaces where, from 1938 to 1949, he developed a remarkable neoclassicism; the Paris apartments of the 50s; and the salon at the French Embassy in Ottawa. In the early ’60s, the disappearance of private commissions prompted the designer to move to Mexico City, where he founded the Artedecor company, then to Los Angeles, before returning to Paris via the Orient. This contact with American pop gave rise to the work he developed in 1968, using new materials to create models for the Lacloche gallery and Maurice Rheims’ dining room, without ever abandoning his classical rigor.