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ADNET, Jacques
AN UPHOLSTERED LOUNGE CHAIR
designed 1953-55 with the collaboration of Herms, for Compagnie des Arts Francais, the red fabric padded seat with black leather edging, flanked by padded black leather armrests, with heavy coil springs to the rear underside of the chair, on tubular and flat steel frame bound with black leather with white top-stitching, with brass terminals exposed to the front supports - 31in.(79cm.) high
AN UPHOLSTERED LOUNGE CHAIR
designed 1953-55 with the collaboration of Herms, for Compagnie des Arts Francais, the red fabric padded seat with black leather edging, flanked by padded black leather armrests, with heavy coil springs to the rear underside of the chair, on tubular and flat steel frame bound with black leather with white top-stitching, with brass terminals exposed to the front supports - 31in.(79cm.) high
Literature
Le Style 50 - Un Moment de l'Art Francais, Patrick Favardin, Sous-Le-Vent, Paris, 1987, p.16
Sale room notice
Although a collaboration between Adnet and Hermes is documented in several references, recent suggestions are that this collaboration was never realised. It is therefore possible that the leather binding to this lot may not have been executed by Hermes.