A pair of Burr Amboyna and ivory boudoir chairs

DESIGNED BY JACQUES-EMILE RUHLMANN, CIRCA 1925

Details
A pair of Burr Amboyna and ivory boudoir chairs
Designed by Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, circa 1925
With low rolled backs, square section tapering legs, with ivory sabots at the front, re-upholstered; sold with the original woven silk damask upholstery and cushion covers, designed by Raoul Dufy, manufactured by Bianchini Férier, as removed, and an additional unused section of the same fabric
21½in. (54cm.) wide; 27¼in. (69cm.) high; 24in. (61cm.) deep
Each section of the textile bearing the label of Blondel, Brussels, suppliers of the fabric. (2)
Provenance
Marcel Wolfers, thence by descent.

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.

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