Robert Mallet-Stevens (French, 1886 - 1945) was an architect and designer who, with Le Corbusier, is regarded as one of the most influential architectural figures of the interwar period. Over his career, Mallet-Stevens designed shops, factories, apartment buildings, private homes and interiors, and showed an early interest in cinema. He designed and constructed film sets, including Marcel L’Herbier’s silent film L’Inhumaine (1924), widely considered a Surrealist masterpiece. Man Ray knew Mallet-Stevens work well, having been commissioned by Charles de Noailles in 1928-29 to make the film Les Mystères du Château de Dé, filmed in a cubist-style villa in the south of France designed by Mallet-Stevens.