Raymond Subes

He is one of the most important French art ironworkers of the twentieth century. He attended the Ecole Boulle in chasing, then those of the School of Decorative Arts with Charles Genuys.

In 1911, he worked three years in the workshop of blacksmith Emile Robert Art, where he acquired great technical experience and took over from it as artistic director and Robert Borderel workshops in 1919, metal carpentry business.

In his work, Raymond Subes combines the techniques of traditional blacksmithing methods odern. The design of the ironwork is in two main ideas: the architectural function of iron and its functional use. He does not hesitate to use multiple materials: first, wrought iron, bronze and sometimes copper, plus, in the 1930s, aluminum, steel and coated steel oxidized. At the Exhibition of 1925, apart from structural metalwork such as gates or ramps, it presents, with Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, in the collector's living room, a library of sheet metal surfaces painted and pressed.

Raymond Subes responds to order like transatlantic "Ile-de-France" in 1927, "Atlantic" in 1931, "Liberté" in 1950, "Normandy" in 1962, and finally to "France" in 1962. He works for the Bank of France on the Champs-Elysées, Mercury Cinema also on Champs Elysées, to the Pasteur Institute, the Museum of Marine,... In collaboration with Porteneuve, he produces metal furniture and chrome metal involved in the construction of some bridges.