Lot Essay
The contemporary photograph here reproduced shows these chairs in situ in the apartment of Marcel and Clairette Wolfers, Rue de Praetere, Belgium. The Wolfers archive records that these chairs were originally purchased for 1680FF and notes that they were upholstered in January 1928 by the firm of Blondel, Brussels.
For details of Bianchini Férier textiles, see: La Revue de la Femme, October 1928, (a copy sold with this lot).
For further details of the Wolfers Ruhlmann commission, see: Christie's London, 2 November 1995, The Petrucci Wolfers Collection, Lots 205 - 211.
For details of Bianchini Férier textiles, see: La Revue de la Femme, October 1928, (a copy sold with this lot).
For further details of the Wolfers Ruhlmann commission, see: Christie's London, 2 November 1995, The Petrucci Wolfers Collection, Lots 205 - 211.