JACQUES ADNET (1900-1984)

A NICKELED-METAL AND GLASS CHANDELIER, CIRCA 1929

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JACQUES ADNET (1900-1984)
A Nickeled-Metal and Glass Chandelier, circa 1929
for La Compagnie des Arts Français
41 in. (104.1 cm.) drop, 32½ in. (82.5 cm.) diameter
Only few examples of this chandelier were ever produced. The present model is of more slender gauge than other known production models and is probably a prototype.

Exhibited

London, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Art Deco 1910-1939, March-July 2003; Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, September 2003-January 2004; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, March-July 2004; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, August 2004-January 2005.

Lot Essay

cf. Art et Industrie, January 1929, p. 30.

G. Janneau, Le luminaires et les moyens d'éclairage nouveaux, Paris, 1930, pl. 149.

C. Benton, T. Benton and G. Wood (eds.), Art Deco 1910-1939, London, 2003, p. 170, fig. 14.9.

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