EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)

A MACASSAR EBONY AND SILVERED-BRONZE LOW TABLE FOR THE LONDON SHOWROOMS OF YARDLEY'S, BOND STREET, CIRCA 1931

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EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
A Macassar Ebony and Silvered-Bronze Low Table for the London Showrooms of Yardley's, Bond Street, circa 1931
25 3/8 in. (64.5 cm.) high, 60 3/8 in. (153.4 cm.) wide, 19¾ in. (50.2 cm.) deep
branded Ruhlmann

來源

Sotheby's, London, 4 November 1999, lot 409.

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Ruhlmann's commission for the Yardley showrooms in London is the only known example of his work for a London interior. He was asked by Mr. Lyddon Gardner, the managing director of Yardley, to furnish the showrooms on Bond Street. Gardner was familiar with Ruhlmann's work and had acquired some of his furniture for his own apartment in the 1920s. In 1924, Ruhlmann had also designed the furniture for the Paris branch of Yardley, located at Avenue de l'Opera.
A display table, three chairs, a chest of drawers and a cupboard from the London Yardley showroom are in the collection of the Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum in Brighton, UK. Pieces from the Paris showroom are now in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.

拍品專文

cf. E. Bréon, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann Furniture. The Designer's Archives, Paris, 2004, p. 66 for a photograph of the interior of Yardley's Paris showroom.
J. Rutherford, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and the Thirties. The Furniture Collections at the Brighton Museum, Brighton, 1983, pp. 43-44 for illustrations of other pieces from the London Yardley showroom.