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Lot Essay
Adrien-Faizelot Delorme, maître in 1748.
The inventory stamp to the top of this commode is as of yet unidentified, but features on other commodes of this period.
ADRIEN FAIZELOT DELORME
Adrien Delorme, renowned for his skill in marquetry, is the most famous member of a family of Parisian cabinet-makers. His father François Delorme (d. 1768), and his brothers, Jean-Louis and Alexis, were all maître-ébénistes. Adrien became a maître-ébéniste in June 1748 and moved from his father's workshops in the rue Tiquetonne to the rue du Temple, where he operated as a marchard-ébéniste. Between 1768 and 1770, he was a juror of his guild and in 1783 his stock was auctioned following his retirement.
Despite the longevity of his career, Delorme seems to have stuck closely to the Louis XV style, and produced both Chinese lacquer and japanned pieces, while his most distinctive work consisted of small pieces of furniture embellished with floral and scroll marquetry on a zebra-striped light-wood ground forming a chevron pattern (A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, London, 1989, p. 181), such as on a table à chevet from the Wildenstein Collection, sold Christie's, London, 14 - 15 December 2005, lot 317. His work can be seen in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; The Louvre and Carnavalet Museum, Paris; The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon; Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire and The Hillwood Museum, Washington DC.
The inventory stamp to the top of this commode is as of yet unidentified, but features on other commodes of this period.
ADRIEN FAIZELOT DELORME
Adrien Delorme, renowned for his skill in marquetry, is the most famous member of a family of Parisian cabinet-makers. His father François Delorme (d. 1768), and his brothers, Jean-Louis and Alexis, were all maître-ébénistes. Adrien became a maître-ébéniste in June 1748 and moved from his father's workshops in the rue Tiquetonne to the rue du Temple, where he operated as a marchard-ébéniste. Between 1768 and 1770, he was a juror of his guild and in 1783 his stock was auctioned following his retirement.
Despite the longevity of his career, Delorme seems to have stuck closely to the Louis XV style, and produced both Chinese lacquer and japanned pieces, while his most distinctive work consisted of small pieces of furniture embellished with floral and scroll marquetry on a zebra-striped light-wood ground forming a chevron pattern (A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, London, 1989, p. 181), such as on a table à chevet from the Wildenstein Collection, sold Christie's, London, 14 - 15 December 2005, lot 317. His work can be seen in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; The Louvre and Carnavalet Museum, Paris; The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon; Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire and The Hillwood Museum, Washington DC.