Etoile sideboard

Straw marquetry and oak
35 1/4  x 98 1/2  x 17 5/8  in. (89.5 x 250.2 x 44.8 cm)

Provenance:
Galerie Jacques Lacoste, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999

Literature:
René Chavance, "Les aménagements intérieurs de Jean Royère et les réflexions qu'ils inspirent," Mobilier et Décoration, November 1956, p. 20 (for a related wardrobe)
Mobilier et Décoration, May 1959, pp. 2-3 (for related models)
Jean Royère:  Décorateur à Paris, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1999, pp. 70-71 (for a related model) and p. 160 (for the first straw marquetry piece presented at the Salon d'Automne, 1943)
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean Royère, Paris, 2002, pp. 209-210 and 243 (for related models) and p. 217 (for the present lot illustrated)
Galerie Jacques Lacoste and Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Royère, Paris, 2012, vol. 1, pp. 31 and 164-165 (for related models) and vol. 2, pp. 72-73 (for related models)

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