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The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (also known as Arts Decos’, Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, E.N.S.A.D.) is a public university of art and design and is one of the most prestigious French grande école. The school is located Rue d'Ulm in Paris, France.

The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs played a major role in the development of the Art Deco design movement in the 1920s and in the creation of new design concepts. The School has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of animation, photography, scenography, industrial design, communication design, interactive design, video, interior design, fashion, textile and engraving.

The E.N.S.A.D. has its roots in the Royal Free School of Art (École royale gratuite de dessin) founded in 1766 by Jean-Jacques Bachelier, confirmed in 1767 by letters patent from Louis XV of France. Its founder's aim was to develop crafts relating to the arts in order to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Through a rigorous and demanding apprenticeship in the Arts, the school strove to combine technique and culture, intelligence and sensitivity, so as to enable the more gifted artisans to develop into creative artists. After several changes of name, in 1877 the school became the National School of Decorative Arts (École nationale des arts décoratifs) before taking its present name of ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs) in 1927.

• Léon Deshairs -1940 and 1943-1945
• Léon Moussinac 1945-1959
• Jacques Adnet 1959-1970
• Michel Tourlière
• Richard Peduzzi 1990-2002
• Patrick Raynaud 2002-

• Pierre Bernard (graphic designer)
• Louis Briat
• Cassandre
• Marcel Gromaire
• André Lurçat
• Pierre Louis Rouillard, professor of sculpture from 1840 to 1881
• Philippe Starck
• Roger Tallon
• Jean Widmer

• Michael Amzalag, graphic designer (part of M/M Paris)
• Philippe Apeloig, graphic designer
• Georges Arditi, painter
• Ximena Armas, painter
• Antun Augustinčić, sculptor
• Mathias Augustyniak, graphic designer (part of M/M Paris)
• Ronan Bouroullec, designer
• Julien Baillargeon, director
• Denis Bajram, cartoonist
• Pierre Bismuth, artist
• Mathieu Boimare, automotive designer
• François Boisrond, painter
• Louis Cane, artist
• Claude Closky, artist
• Leon Dabo, painter
• Jean-Claude Denis, cartoonist
• Philippe Dupuy, cartoonist
• Benoit Pierre Emery, graphic designer
• Laurent Fetis, graphic designer
• Jean-François Guiton, artist
• Jean-Paul Goude, photographer and director
• Emmanuel Guibert, cartoonist
• René Georges Hermann-Paul, artist and illustrator
• Pierre Huyghe, artist
• Marcel Ichac (1906-1994), director and photographer
• Max Ingrand, master of glass and interior designer
• Richard Isanove, cartoonist
• Fernand Léger, artist
• Georges Léonnec, illustrator
• Annette Messager, artist
• Morteza Momayez, graphic designer
• Fernand Mourlot, lithographer, publisher
• Francis Picabia, artist
• Charles Ethan Porter, painter
• Alfred-Georges Regner, painter engraver
• Pierre Roy, painter
• Alain Seguin, painter
• Jacques Tardi, cartoonist
• Martin Veyron, cartoonist
• Éric Wenger, artist

• Official ENSAD Website
• Students projects (VIDEOS)

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