'DROUANT', A SIDE CHAIR, DESIGNED 1924

Details

EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
'DROUANT', A SIDE CHAIR, DESIGNED 1924
red-lacquered wood, modern upholstery, bronze sabots
31 ½ in. (83 cm.) high; 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep
bearing paper label "Dessin 1 Entrée 12 081 Rulhman"

Literature

Similar example illustrated:
F. Camard, Ruhlmann, Master of Art Deco, 1984, p. 284;
Ruhlmann, Un Génie de L'Art Déco, Musée des Années 30, exhib. cat., Boulogne-Billancourt, 15 November 2001 - 17 March 2002, p. 197;
E. Breon and R. Pepall, Ruhlmann Genius of Art Deco, Paris, 2004, pp. 47, 57, 200 and 206.

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Lot Essay

Ruhlmann designed this model for the Restaurant Drouant in 1924. He subsequently used the design in other important commissions, including the Grand Salon of the Hôtel du Collectionneur at the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes and on the steamship Ile de France.

Another example of this model is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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