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| General info : | | "Henry Labourdette" was the eponymous business name used by Jean Henri-Labourdette (born Jean Jacques Labourdette December 4, 1888 - died August 20, 1972, Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France (aged 83)) and his brother Fernand Henri-Labourdette, renowned French automotive coachbuilders and designer, active from 1858 to 1939 and their father Henri-Jean Labourdette (1855 - 1910).
The business also used the name "Henri Labourdette".
In 1858, Jean Baptiste Labourdette (1826-1895), the paternal blacksmith and coachbuilder grandfather of Jean Henri-Labourdette) moved to Paris with his brothers from his native Béarn to found the company "Labourdette & Frères" in 1855, a manufacturer of horse-drawn carriages, at 105 Avenue de Malakoff.
His son and heir, Henri-Jean Labourdette (1855-1910), successfully succeeded him and renamed the company "Henri-Labourdette."
A pioneer in the history of the automobile , he produced, among other things, the bodies for the first mass-produced gasoline-powered cars, including Georges Richard 's first vis-à-vis in 1896, as well as Louis Renault 's first Renault Type A in 1899.
Upon the untimely death of his father in 1910, Jean Henri-Labourdette (1888-1972) took over the family business with his brother, Fernand Henri-Labourdette. Thanks to the use of new techniques and the adoption of resolutely modern and avant-garde designs for the time, Jean Henri-Labourdette quickly became one of the most prestigious and celebrated French coachbuilders of the interwar period in the 1930s , alongside companies such as Figoni & Falaschi , Henri Chapron , Letourneur & Marchand , Carrosserie Pourtout , and Jacques Saoutchik , with branches on the Champs-Élysées , in Madrid , and in Saint Petersburg.
The declaration of the Second World War in 1939 marked the end of Henri-Labourdette's coachbuilding business.
After the war, Jean Henri Labourdette still carried out a few anecdotal theoretical studies of coachwork, based on models, including concept cars based on the Renault 4CV. He died in 1972, at the age of 83, at his property in Le Rouret , near Nice , on the French Riviera.
Jean Henri-Labourdette married Georgette Vial-Debacker onDecember 21, 1912 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, where he had two children: the architect Jacques Henri-Labourdette in 1915, and the actress Élina Labourdette in 1919.
Between 1912 and the 1920s, its " Torpedo - Skiff Labourdette" series (inspired by skiff boats, wooden runabout boats, and American Woodies ) was one of the brand's most important historical successes. | |
| Source : | | Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Henri-Labourdette) | |
| Source : | | Vogue (FR) - 1er Juillet 1922 (www.allzthings.com/ShowCollectoritem.aspx?thingnumber=71868) | |
| Relations : | | Founded by : Henri-Jean Labourdette | |
| Relations : | | Previously known as : Labourdette & Frères | |
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