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Jean-Emile Puiforcat (1897 - 1945) was a French cutlery designer and artist. He made his designs in different silver cutlery using them a very revolutionary Art Deco style for the time, offering his pieces a strange mixture of robustness and elegance, many of the later works in goldsmithing would be influenced by this author. Today they sell their pieces of silverware at auctions around the world at fairly high prices. Its refined goldsmithing occupies a preponderant place in the history of France and today its designs are part of the collection of the Louvre Museum. He was a member of the Union des Artistes Modernes, a leading group of architects, decorators and designers mostly of French origin.
In 1942 the Puiforcat family settled for a time in Mexico City.
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