Raymond Subes, born in Paris on April 13, 1891 and dead in Étampes (Essonne) on January 31, 1970, is a French artist-decorator specialized in ironwork.
Former student of the Boulle School and the National School of Decorative Arts, Raymond Subes is one of the most famous French ironworkers of the Art Deco period. Throughout his career, until 197...
Raymond Subes, born in Paris on April 13, 1891 and dead in Étampes (Essonne) on January 31, 1970, is a French artist-decorator specialized in ironwork.
Former student of the Boulle School and the National School of Decorative Arts, Raymond Subes is one of the most famous French ironworkers of the Art Deco period. Throughout his career, until 1970, he worked in the company of Émile Robert, associated with Ernest Borderel. He was first draftsman, then artistic director and finally director-general.
Raymond Subes collaborated with the greatest decorators of his time: Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Léon and Maurice Jallot, Jules Leleu, Michel Roux-Spitz, Alfred Porteneuve, Jean Mayodon and Jean Dunand.
He made the stair railings and balustrades of the liner in Île-de-France in 1926, then the liners Lafayette (1930), L'Atlantique (1931) and Le Normandie (1935).
He designed the telescopic street lamps of the Carrousel Bridge in Paris and ironworks for the Banque de France, the Palais de Tokyo, the headquarters of insurance companies, the large hotels or restaurants in Paris (such as Lutetia, Georges V and Fouquet's. ), Airports (Orly, Le Bourget), department stores, historical monuments and national palaces.
He also produced grids for the house of Champagne Pommery, for the manufacturer of biscuits Fossier and for the City Hall of Reims. R. SUBES also realized the wrought iron gate of the staircase of the Guy Mocquet cultural center in La Courneuve (1963-1964) as well as the entrance gates of the Sainte-Odile church in Paris.
He was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1958.