Jules Cayette, born May 27, 1882 in Paris and died January 2, 1953 in Nancy, he was a blacksmith, carpenter, sculptor, modeler, and French decorator who partook in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movement.

In 1896, he enrolled for the first time at the Municipal School and Regional Fine Arts in Nancy. He leaves the school in 1899 and was apprenticed at Perez, wood carver and carpenter in Nancy. In 1900 he re-entered the Beaux-Arts, while continuing his training at Schwartz. He left school in 1902 at which he apprenticed under Victor Prouvé and then Eugene Vallin.

It was in 1904, when he met Jacques Gruber and had collaborated on some projects with that Cayette started perfect his craft in furniture. Later Cayette joins with the likes of Eugene Vallin and works under Vallin. It was not until 1910, when Jules Cayette decided to leave Vallin and set up his own firm which officially began operations on August 1st, 1910.

He continues to work on through to the twenties and transitions into Art Deco as Art Nouveau started to become a thing of the past and ceases production until the late thirties.

From 1912 he exhibited regularly at the Lorraine Society of Friends of the Arts. That's when he met his main patron: Saint-Just Péquart (1881-1944). He set up his first workshop street Collinet de La Salle in 1913.

Jules Cayette was like his master Victor Prouve, a multi-artist, exploring all avenues artistic jewelry, stoneware, printmaking, sculpture, painting, metalwork, wood, to carving!!!