Charles Ramos

From a cabinetmaker family Charles Ramos is a self-taught person. After a year studying at the Beaux Arts in Alger, the city receives its first bombing. He decides to enlist in the Army for six years by coming over to the Forces Françaises Libres in London in the French Air Force. Back in Paris, he undergoes during two years his return to the civil life and finally signs his first interior design construction by meeting clients rue du faubourg Saint Antoine. He then creates his agency in 1950 by associating with M. Castellanetta his first and exclusive furniture and seats editor until the Seventies. In 1952, he exhibits for the first time at Salon des Artistes Décorateurs while beginning collaboration with Louis Baillon as an interior designer with complete interior projects and common participations to Salon des Arts Ménagers and Salon des Artistes Décorateurs. From a common opinion the two designers decide to split up and Charles Ramos gets even more involved in the Reconstruction projects in Normandie by furnishing hotels and discovering the community field. This is in this sphere of activity that the designer meets Jacques Biny and the two men agree on collaboration. The Algerian from origins designs for Luminalite in 1958 the beautiful sconce 226 called shield window, made of a lacquered metal reflector on which comes a semi-sphere in opal glass that brings a soft light and corresponds to the needs of numerous hotels to furnish. The model 229 is much more spectacular. A white lacquered longue curved sheet metal supports a long lacquered bulb-cover fixed by two elements in copper. The well-studied form permits to guide the light intensity by the leading angle of the bulb-cover and its dimensions growing the whole wall coverage.