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Lot Essay
Jean-Baptiste Gourdin, maître in 1748.
Son of Jean Gourdin, Jean-Baptiste established his workshop in the rue de Cléry near that of his father. He manufactured mostly Louis XV seat-furniture and the sinuous lines of the fauteuils are related to those of a fauteuil in the Museé des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (inv. 7269) (G.B.Pallot, The Art of the Chair in Eighteenth Century France, Paris, 1989, P. 186). A similar fauteuil is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, p. 367, fig. A.
Vicomtesse Dale de Bonchamps was a prominent American aesthete and collector of decorative arts in post-war Paris. Her apartment on Avenue Foch was renowned for its wonderful interiors designed by the eminent Parisian decorator Georges Geffroy.
Son of Jean Gourdin, Jean-Baptiste established his workshop in the rue de Cléry near that of his father. He manufactured mostly Louis XV seat-furniture and the sinuous lines of the fauteuils are related to those of a fauteuil in the Museé des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (inv. 7269) (G.B.Pallot, The Art of the Chair in Eighteenth Century France, Paris, 1989, P. 186). A similar fauteuil is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII
Vicomtesse Dale de Bonchamps was a prominent American aesthete and collector of decorative arts in post-war Paris. Her apartment on Avenue Foch was renowned for its wonderful interiors designed by the eminent Parisian decorator Georges Geffroy.