furniture, art & design
Mathieu Matégot (France 1910-2001)
Model Elysée side table,
Artimeta. 1950s.
63 x 38.5 x 56cm high
A rare side table / magazine table manufactured in the 1950s. Perforated metal with brass ball feet.
Literature: Philippe Jousse, Mathieu Matégot, Jousse Enterprise, 2003, modèle reproduit pp.164, 190, 191 & 227
Price: 2.500 euro
Silver plate modernist/Art Deco beakers (the design often attributed to Maison Desny)
Circa 1920s/30s. Unpolished.
Price: 890 euro (pair)
Jean Nouvel (Fr. 1945- now)
‘Less’ Table. Molteni / France. 1990s
Steel plate. 190 x 90 x 72.5 cm high
A rare first steel edition of the ‘Less’ table by Jean Nouvel (later editions were in aluminium and lighter). The table was originally designed for Foundation Cartier office in Paris.
The top has a distinctive sunken underside, not seen when viewed from above – the result is the illusion of a wafer thin top supported by four thin legs.
Original lacquered surface in anthracite metallic grey/silver colour. In good condition – some minor scratches. The legs can be unscrewed from the top.
Price: 2,750 euro
Philippe Starck (Fr. 1949-now)
Rare ‘easylight’ Electrorama, Circa 1980.
Floor-neon lamp. Designed around 1977, the edition was for Starck Product or Electrorama circa 1980. Stamped ‘Starck Product’.
Makrolon, polyurethane and fluorescent tube H: 142 cm. (56 inches); D: 6,7cm.(2 3/8in.). The lamp has an inbuilt mercury tilt switch (the lamp lights up when its position is slightly altered)
This lamp was most likely purchased in the Netherlands at De Bijenkorf, circa 1980. Bibliography: J.-F. Grunfeld, M.-L. Jousset, Lumières Je Pense à Vous, exhibition catalog, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, June 3-August 5, 1985, p. 158, n. 282 C. Colin, Starck, Ed Pierre Mardaga, Liège, 1988, p. 274, 278, 296
Price: 5.800 euro
French wooden constructivist side table.
Circa 1960s. Ash and Cherry wood.
Price: 540 euro
1950s French side table /desk.
Solid pine wood with inset linoleum top.
Price: 1.590.00 euro
Pierre Chapo (France 1927-1987)
Elm wood.
Designed in the 1970s this is an early edition S34 chair. The chair comes with its original invoice as purchased at Seltz in Strasbourg, France in 1982.
Price: 5,650 euro
Mid-c20th French Table.
Brutalist oak dining table
A French solid oak table with a Brutalist simplicity. The table is completely held together using traditional pegged joints rather than nails or glue that lock into place when the table is set into position. Its few features include lengthened integrated cross bars and carved planes to the inside of each leg.
h.70.5cm x w.160cm x d.64cm
Price: 1,250.00 euro
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