Product description
ébène de macassar, lacquered wood and fabric upholstery
26 1/4 x 30 3/4 x 28 3/4 in. (66.7 x 78.1 x 73 cm)
Provenance:
L'Arc en Seine, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998
Literature:
Les Arts de la Maison, Hiver 1924, Paris, 1924, p. 19 and pl. II (for the model shown in period renderings of two interiors)
Ernest Tisserand, "Du studio au Salon," L'Art Vivant, April 15, 1926, no. 32, p. 304 (for the model in Hélène Bernheim's interior)
Intérieurs et Ameublements Modernes, Paris, 1927, pl. 22 (for the model in Mr. Dalsace's interior)
Georges Rémon, "Les créations de Pierre Chareau," Mobilier et Décoration, April 1927, p. 99
Pierre Chareau: architecte, un art d'intérieur, exh. cat, Paris, 1993, p. 203 (for the model in Mr. Fahri's interior)
Marc Vellay and Kenneth Frampton, Pierre Chareau: Architecte-Meublier 1883-1950, Paris, 1984, pp. 37, 39-40, 92, 105, 118, 130, 215, 297 and 312