The French designer and architect was, with Le Corbusier, one of the first modern creators to use new materials such as glass and metal. He imagined wood and metallic furniture as well as lamps with such particular shapes that they are now recognisable as belonging to the ‘Chareau style.’ In 1928, he conceived the iconic Glass House, situated in central Paris. After John Paxton's Crystal Palace, Pierre Chareau fulfilled Paul Scheerbart's utopian desire for a future "new glass environment [which] will completely transform mankind," as the latter expressed in 1914.