Clara Porset
| Clara Porset | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 25, 1895 Matanzas, Cuba |
| Died | May 17, 1981 (aged 85) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | Cuban |
| Education |
Manhattanville Academy (1914-1918) |
| Known for | Design, Interior Design, Furniture Design |
| Spouse(s) | Xavier Guerrero |
| Awards | Silver Medal, Eleventh Milan Triennial |
Manhattanville Academy (1914-1918)
Bachelor of Arts, School of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York
École des Beaux Arts
Clara Porset (May 25, 1895 – May 17, 1981) was a Cuban-born interior designer whose education and career brought her to the United States and Europe. From 1963 until her death she worked in Mexico, where she is considered a pioneer in furniture design.
Born to a wealthy Cuban family, Porset had the opportunity to travel widely, accumulating a wide range of artistic and political influences. She studied at the Manhattanville Academy, New York (1914–18), attended technical courses in architecture and design in Cuba, then completed her art degree in 1925 at Columbia University. Porset traveled to Europe in the late 1920s, met Bauhaus teachers Walter Gropius and Hans Emil “Hannes” Meyer, with whom she remained in contact for many years. From 1928 to 1931, she studied architecture and furniture design in the Paris studio of the designer and architect Henri Rapin and attended classes at the École des Beaux Arts, the Sorbonne, and the Louvre.
In 1932, she returned to Cuba, and shortly after presented a lecture titled “La decoración interior contemporánea su adaptación al Tropic” (Contemporary Interior Decoration: Its Adaptation to the Tropics), demonstrating the nascent interests that defined her career. She worked professionally as a designer in Cuba during this time, but returned to her studies in the summer of 1934 under former Bauhaus instructors Josef and Anni Albers at Black Mountain College, North Carolina.
During her studies at various universities she spent her summers traveling through Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, England, and France, but eventually returned to Cuba to work as a designer where she created furniture for residences and schools. During this time, she gave lectures to expose the public to modern design and even promoted using the term interior design rather than its older term interior decoration.
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