Eugène Grasset Prints
1845–1917 · Swiss-French · Art Nouveau
Wall art by Eugène Grasset, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
16 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Eugène Grasset
Eugène Grasset was born in Lausanne in May 1845, the son of a cabinet-maker, trained as an architect in Zurich and travelled in Egypt before settling in Paris in 1871. He worked first as a designer of furniture, textiles and jewellery, and his illustrations for the medieval romance Les Quatre Fils Aymon in 1883, printed in colour with the text and the pictures designed as one page, were the first book of the Art Nouveau. His posters, from the Librairie Romantique of 1887 to the Jeanne d'Arc for Sarah Bernhardt of 1890 and the Encre Marquet of 1892, brought the heavy outlines and flat colours of stained glass and illumination to the walls of Paris, and his Salon des Cent poster of 1894 was the first of that long series. He designed stained glass, the Grasset typeface for the Peignot foundry and the semeuse figure of the Larousse dictionaries, taught decorative composition at the École Guérin, where Berthon and Augusto Giacometti were his pupils, and published pattern books, La Plante et ses applications ornementales, that spread the style across Europe. He died in Sceaux in May 1917.