Paul Dupré-Lafon was born in 1900 in Marseille. He begins his secondary education at the Jesuits, but soon after he began an artistic career at the ‘Beaux-Arts’. Then, the young artist sets up in Paris to embrace an interior designer career.
His first creations showed an austere and bourgeois aspect in a Art Deco style, but in 1929 he starts the decoration of a huge private mansion near the ‘Parc Monceau’, a large construction site that will be decisive in his career launch.
Paul Dupré-Lafon’s work reveals a perfect control of the interior designer profession. His sensitivity for materials leads him to collaborate with Hermès for leathers, and to work with cabinetmakers or highly qualified craftsmen to honor noble materials he works with, such as Rio rosewood, Macassar ebony, ivory, parchment or even marble. He matches wood and chrome-plated metal and enjoies refining and highlighting his sober furniture of stone, iron or ceramic slab.