Biography of Lucien Rollin

The French designer LUCIEN ROLLIN received his education at Paris’s Ecole Boulle. Rollin, who was born on August 27, 1953, worked in Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann’s studio, a master of Art Deco. Later, while working for designer Michel Roux-Spitz, he returned to the Ecole Boulle.

In 1928

Lucien Rollin established his own studio and drew inspiration from a wide range of sources, including as Frank Lloyd Wright, Ruhlmann, and classical Greek and Louis XVI designs. He became a successful furniture designer in the Art Moderne style.
Renowned architect Lucien Rollin was a highly regarded furniture designer in Paris, recognized for his masterful use of eye-catching veneers, richly grained woods, and precise proportions. The minimalist yet refined style of Lucien Rollin was influenced by integrity of Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs, which is amply demonstrated by their precise, detailed lines.
At the 1925 Exposition Internationales des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris (also known as the 1925 Expo – the display which eventually propelled the expression “Workmanship Deco”), Lucien Rollin participated in Ruhlmann’s Hotel du Collectionneur construction.
Beginning in 1928, Lucien Rollin’s artwork was featured in the Societe des Artistes Decorateurs’ annual Salons. His work was so well valued after 1928 that jury duty was removed from his subsequent sections, and he became an unchangeable member of the Society.
He visited the United States in 1932. He was driven by a deep and burgeoning enthusiasm about architecture and was well aware of the intriguing and contemporary ideas in American design. and driven by a strong, developing fascination with architecture, the kind of fascination that would eventually absorb him completely.
While in the US, Rollin got to know well-known New York interior designers W&J Sloane. That year, the company engaged Rollin to create an apartment for its Fifth Avenue business. His reputation in the US was cemented by this effort.
Rollin drew up and designed staterooms for the excellent French oceanliner Normandie in 1935. He was fortunate to receive government commissions for the Elysee Palace (the French “White House”), the city of Aubusson, and the French international safe haven in Brussels.
Additionally, Lucien Rollin created drawings for multiple rooms in the French pavilion at the 1939–1940 New York World’s Fairs: The Future of Our World.
He also held exhibitions of his work at the Marshall Field’s Gallery in Chicago and updated Bullock’s Wilshire Building in Los Angeles, California, both in terms of interior design and furnishings.
He pursued architecture as a career in the 1980s and continued to do so.
When he started working as a full-time architect in his late forties, he gave up on interior design and décor. Rollin’s first love would always be architecture, even after he retired in the 1980s. 1993 saw Lucien Rollin’s passing.