Raymond Subes

Raymond Subes was a French artist and decorator, born in 1891 in Paris. He is one of the most famous French ironworkers of the Art Deco period. He went to the National School of Decorative Arts and the Boulle School in Paris and was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts. Subes collaborated with the greatest decorators of his time, such as Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann. Throughout his career, until 1970, he worked together with Émile Robert, in whose company he was artistic director and later on director general. He has made the stair railings and balustrades for ships such as the Lafayette. Also, he designed the street lamps of the Carrousel Bridge and the ironwork for the Palais de Tokyo, headquarters of insurance companies, large hotels and restaurants in Paris, airports, department stores, historical monuments and national palaces. He died in 1970 in Étampes, France at the age of 76.