Pierre ChareauThe designer and architect Pierre Chareau (18831950) was a pivotal figure in modernism. His extraordinary Art Deco furniture is avidly collected and his visionary glass house, the Maison de Verre, is celebrated, but the breadth of his design genius has been little explored. Chareau linked architecture, fine arts, and style; designed furniture for avant garde films and chic homes; collected artists such as Picasso and Mondrian; and was a radical