Raymons Subes was born in Paris on April 13, 1891. A former student of the École Boulle and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Raymond Subes is one of the most famous French metalworkers of the Art Deco period. Throughout his career, until 1970, he worked for Émile Robert’s company, associated with Ernest Borderel. First as a draughtsman, then as artistic director and finally as managing director. Raymond Subes worked with some of the greatest decorators of his time: Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Léon and Maurice Jallot, Jules Leleu, Michel Roux-Spitz, Alfred Porteneuve, Jean Mayodon, Jean Dunand. In 1926, he designed the handrails and balustrades for the liner Île-de-France, followed by the liners Lafayette (1930), L’Atlantique (1931) and Le Normandie (1935). He designs the four telescopic lampposts on the Carrousel bridge in Paris. He collaborated with architect Émile Brunet and mosaicist Auguste Labouret on the construction of the Saint-Léon church, then on the Lycée Marie-Curie (Sceaux) between 1932 and 1936, for which he designed the ironwork (monumental door and staircase banisters). He also designed ironwork for the Banque de France, the Palais de Tokyo, insurance company headquarters, major Parisian hotels and restaurants (such as Lutetia, Georges V, Fouquet’s…), airports (Orly, Le Bourget), department stores, historic monuments and national palaces. He also creates grilles for the Champagne house Pommery, for cookie manufacturer Fossier and for the Reims City Hall. Raymond Subes also designed the wrought-iron railings for the staircase of the Guy-Môquet cultural center in La Courneuve (1963-1964), as well as the entrance gates to the Sainte-Odile church in Paris. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1958. Raymond Subes died on January 31, 1970 and is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery