TARDIEU Georges (1922-2022), low table tiled with earthenware, rupestral decoration on brown-orange shaded bottom, "bisons", inspired by the caves of Lascaux. The structure is in wrought iron and hammered, around 1960, 103X41X40. The discovery of the caves of Lascaux in 1940, will influence in a lasting way, the decorative art. In 1950 I was a decorator at the Berger ceramics factory, [...] It was there that I had the opportunity to move to Biot. [I worked day and night for the largest French and foreign establishments. Georges Tardieu worked for personalities as different as the begum Aghan Khan, the president of General Motors or Jean Cocteau.

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