CIRCA 1938

細節

A SET OF SIX FRENCH WHITE-PAINTED SIDE CHAIRS
CIRCA 1938
Each with scrolled stiles flanking a shell-form splat, the seats on square tapering legs (6)

來源

with Ramsay, Paris.

注意事項

Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

拍品專文

These chairs, in the manner of Syrie Maugham and Serge Roche, were originally part of a larger set supplied to Doris Duke in the late 1930s for the Dining Room at Shangri La, Honolulu. They can be seen in situ in photographs from c. 1938-1940. In the early 1960s the Dining Room was remodeled in a Persian style and these chairs, along with the table bases in the following lot, were brought to Doris Duke's New York apartment. Additional chairs were used to furnish the Men's and Women's Dressing Rooms in the Hollywood Wing at Duke Farms. The mollusk shell wall sconces visible in the photograph were also probably brought to New Jersey after the remodeling of the Shangri La Dining Room and are now in the Pool Room at Duke Farms (lot 912).

André Hammel was a famous antiquaire and furniture collector, whose collection was well known to museum curators and furniture enthusiasts. He owned Ramsay, an interior design firm and retailer operating in Paris from the 1930s through the 1970s. He contributed a number of pieces of furniture to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 1961. A portion of the collection of André and Lydie Hammel was sold by Tajan, Paris, in December 2001.