A CARVED WALNUT AND TOOLED LEATHER SIDE CHAIR FOR THE DINING ROOM OF THE MAISON COILLIOT, LILLE, CIRCA 1898-1900

Hector Guimard was engaged in the commissions for both the Maison Coilliot and Castel Henriette at Sèvres between 1899 and 1900; chairs to a virtually identical design as the present example for the Maison Coilliot were also incorporated in Guimard's interiors for Castel Henriette.
Guimard, exhibition catalogue, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 26, 1992 - January 5, 1993, p. 205 et seq., period photograph of the dining room at the Castel Henriette featuring chairs of this design
Georges Vigne, Hector Guimard, Architect Designer 1867 - 1942, 2003, p. 127 et seq., The Maison Coilliot commission described; p. 146-147 for chairs of the same design, in pearwood, for the Castel Henriette, illustrated