Camille faure biography

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Camille Fauré (1874–1956) was a French enamel artist best known for his design work for the Limoges porcelain company in Limoges.
Born in Périgueux in 1874, Camille Fauré is the third child of a letter painter who came to set up his business in Limoges at the end of the 1880s.

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While the enamelling had lost its importance in Limoges following the Revolution, the rediscovery of this art during the nineteenth century has allowed the Limousin region to regain all the prestige of its reputation in the field. Brought up to date by a pioneering generation of scholars and enthusiasts since the Second Empire, it is truly at the beginning of the 1920s and under the impetus of the ingenious entrepreneur Camille Fauré that limousine enamels will experience a new growth and take the turn of modernity.

Born in Périgueux in 1874, Camille Fauré is the third child of a letter painter who came to set up his business in Limoges at the end of the 1880s. After his father's death, the young man took charge of the family business and multiplies activities by specializing in various sectors such as signs, shop windows, churches or faux marble. With his professional success, he decided to devote himself to the production of enamels of art around 1920 and associated with Alexandre Marty, student and son-in-law of porcelain decorator Alfred Broussillon. Toge

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Camille Alphonse Faure

French chemist (1840–1898)

Camille Alphonse Faure (21 May 1840, Vizille – 14 September 1898) was a French chemical engineer who in 1881 significantly improved the design of the lead-acid battery, which had been invented by Gaston Planté in 1859. Faure's improvements greatly increased the capacity of such batteries and led directly to their manufacture on an industrial scale.^[1] The patents were assigned to the Société La Force et la Lumière. The right to use the patents in the British Isles were sold to the Faure Electric Accumulator Company on 29 March 1881. Faure was a consultant engineer with William Edward Ayrton for this company.^[2]

Biography

He was born at Vizille and trained at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers at Aix.^[3] From 1874 until about 1880, he worked as a chemist at the new factory of the Cotton Powder Company at Uplees, Faversham, Kent, England.^[4] While there, he and the factory manager, George Trench, took out patents for tonite, a new high explosive (1874), and an improved dynamite

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Camille Faurè produced designs for Limoges, long famed for its enamels Born in Perigueux in 1872, he spent a long apprenticeship before setting up his own workshop at Limoges, where he worked for over fifty years. Fauré became Limoges most famous and talented enamel artist. He exhibited in the 1925 International Exhibition in Paris that gave name to Art Deco.

His early work, like his post-World War II designs, involved large floral patterns, often in rich colors keeping in line with the Art Nouveau movement. He exhibited through his Paris shop, and produced vases, bowls, ashtrays, boxes and other items. The vases were made in many different shapes, including those of the gourd, kettledrum and egg, with geometric or stylized floral patterns. It was his geometric designs, however, which set him apart as the greatest creative enameller of the Art Deco style. Geometric designs included chevrons, lozenges, diagonal and stripe patterns and floral motifs, ranging from naturalistic to stylized patterns of leaves and flowers. The geometric patterns featured strong hues of blue, red, orang