Victor Courtray is a french designer, born n 1896.
He studied at the Ecole Boulle and he is graduated in 1914.

Four years later, Victor Courtray begins a collaboraion with Maurice Dufrêne, and then with Paul Follot who is the director of the Bon Marché’s workshop : Pomone.
Later, he designes furnitures for DIM company.
His work is noteworthy from 1923 at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and at the Salon d’Automne.

After this Parisian adventure, Victor Courtrays moves in the South-West.
If his first production period is characterized by the Art Déco style, his discovery in 1924 of Biarritz, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Pau and Dax, leads him to include a new vocabulary. His style becomes « neo-basque ».
The same year, he opens his own house which is very successful.
A lot of well-known clients as Jacques Worth, Boucheron, Jean Puiforcat, order him interior designs.

Absolute ensemblier, Victor Courtray is a member of the Société des Artistes Décorateurs and do not stop his collaborations especially with Edouard Cazaux or Raymond Subes.