The École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (French pronunciation: [ekɔl nɑsjɔnal sypeʁjœʁ dez‿aʁ dekɔʁatif]; ÉnsAD) also known as Arts Decos' and École des Arts décoratifs, is a public grande école of art and design, constituent member of PSL Research University. The school is located in the Rue d'Ulm in Paris.
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The École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs played a major role in the development of the Art Deco design movement in the 1920s and in the creation of new design concepts.
The School has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of animation, photography, scenography, industrial design, communication design, interactive design, video, interior design, fashion, textile and engraving.
History
The E.N.S.A.D. has its roots in the École royale gratuite de dessin (Royal Free School of Design) founded in 1766 by Jean-Jacques Bachelier, confirmed in 1767 by letters patent from King Louis XV. Its founder's aim was to develop crafts relating to the arts in order to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Through a rigorous and demanding apprenticeship in the Arts, the school strove to combine technique and culture, intelligence and sensitivity, so as to enable the more gifted artisans to develop into creative artists. After several changes of name, in 1877 the school became the National School of Decorative Arts (École nationale des arts décoratifs) before taking its present name of ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs) in 1927.
Directors
Charles Edmond Kayser, 1938–?,
Léon Deshairs, ?−1940, and 1943–1945,
Léon Moussinac, 1945–1959,
Jacques Adnet, 1959–1970,
Michel Tourlière,
Richard Peduzzi, 1990–2002,
Patrick Raynaud, 2002–2008,
Geneviève Gallot, 2008–2013,
Marc Partouche, 2014–2018,
Emmanuel Tibloux, 2018–present
Notable teachers
Pierre Bernard (graphic designer)
Rosa Bonheur
Cassandre
Marcel Gromaire
Jean-Philippe Lenclos
André Lurçat
Pierre Louis Rouillard, professor of sculpture from 1840 to 1881
Joseph-André Motte furniture and interior designer
Philippe Starck
Roger Tallon
Notable alumni
Philippe Apeloig, graphic designer
Ximena Armas, painter
Antun Augustinčić, sculptor
Pierre Bismuth, artist
François Boisrond, painter
Ronan Bouroullec, designer
Yvonne Canu, painter
Nina Childress, painter
Claude Closky, artist
Sylvie Covey, artist, printmaker, and author
Paul Coze, artist
Leon Dabo, painter
Sylvaine Dampierre, documentary filmmaker
Léon Delarbre, painter, museum curator
Philippe Dupuy, cartoonist
Benoît-Pierre Émery, graphic designer
Vincent Ferniot, actor, presenter, writer
Jean-Paul Goude, photographer and director
René Georges Hermann-Paul, artist and illustrator
John Howe, illustrator and author
Camille Henrot, artist
Pierre Huyghe, artist
Jean Jansem, painter