The prize was awarded to Jean Luce et le renouveau de la table française. 1910-1960 by Sung Moon Cho, published by Editions Norma.

On Wednesday 10 October 2024, the jury comprising Laurent Petitgirad, Adrien Goetz, Francis Baillet, Philippe Bénacin, Dominique Bona, Roselyne Bachelot, Jean-Pierre Grivory, Nathalie Obadia, Maryvonne Pinault and François-Xavier de Sambucy de Sorgue met to award the Prix du Cercle Montherlant – Académie des beaux-arts 2024.

Jean Luce et le renouveau de la table française. 1910-1960

This book is the fruit of more than eight years’ work. Co-published with the MAD, it provides a first biography of Jean Luce, as well as the work of his contemporaries Marcel Goupy, Suzanne Lalique and Francis Jourdain. Luce’s long career, which began in 1911 at the Musée Galliera exhibition and ended in 1962, spanned a number of twentieth-century movements, from the very first emergence of Art Deco to post-war Functionalism. Jean Luce was an heir to the ceramic and glass merchant-publishers of the 19th century, and at just 30 years of age, he was the only designer specialising in tableware to have his own space at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925. Always on the lookout for technical and industrial innovations, after the Second World War he worked with brands such as Duralex, which enabled him to continue his exploration of functionalism.

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