Born in Oran in 1894, Elise received at an early age an education in the arts. As a student, she attended the Académie Julian and Les Ateliers Montparnasse allowing her own geometric and modern style to blossom, which was fully expressed between 1920 and 1937.
Deliberately limiting herself to three or four colours, her compositions offer an elaborate combination of circles, rectangles, triangles and broken lines. The ever-present white marks the relationship between form and colour. The chromatic range used by the artist is subtle and wide, from pastel tones to more contrasting colour combinations.
Her work echoes the aesthetic research on the interaction of colours carried out by the Bauhaus school or Sonia Delaunay. Elise’s creations are all printed by hand with the block printing technique. This artisanal technique generates a certain irregularity in the graphic pattern, thus removing any stiffness.
Architect, interior designer and furniture designer graduated in 1922 from l’Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Djo-Bourgeois is known for his total commitment to modernity. His style is rigorous, minimalist. In his projects, he follows the paradigms of modern architecture: large bays, simple lines, terrace and cement. He assembles plans and simple volumes by playing on the cylinder, the cone, the rectangle. We find the same approach in his proposals for furniture. However, he remains attentive to the harmony of volumes, colors and materials. He quickly became very successful with a clientele looking for a new aesthetic in keeping with modern life. His sudden death in 1937 ended a dazzling career.
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