Key facts

Product:
Croisillon armchair
Manufacturer:
Sotheby´s
Architonic ID:
4109398
Launched:
1950
Country:
United Kingdom
Category:
Furnishings

Product description

Oak and fabric upholstery
31 1/2  x 27 3/4  x 36 1/2  in. (80 x 70.5 x 92.7 cm) 

Provenance:
Private Collection, Lebanon, circa 1950
Galerie de Beyrie, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998

Literature:
René Chavance, "Aménagement Officiels et Installations Privées par Jean Royère," Mobilier et Décoration, October 1951, p. 24 
Jean Royère:  Décorateur à Paris, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1999, p. 16 (for the model in the gallery Jean Royère, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, 1949) and p. 17 (for a period rendering showing the model)
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean Royère, Paris, 2002, p. 121 (for a related model)
Galerie Jacques Lacoste and Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Royère, Paris, 2012, vol. 1, pp. 230-231 and vol. 2, pp. 7, 51

Catalogue note:
Sotheby's would like to thank Jacques Lacoste for his assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.