Clement
Rousseau
(1871-1921)

Victorian ivory sculptor

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Rousseau was one of the first Art Deco designers. Art Deco was less a coordinated movement than a "tendency in design" that began in the early 1920s. (John W. Nixon, "Art Deco: An Overview." Rousseau was trained as a sculptor before he began to design. He designed furniture, jewelry and objets d'art. Along with Jean Dunard (1877-1942) he created an important group of lacquered metal vases, that are considered a turning point in the history of design.