EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)

A DESK AND CHAIR, CIRCA 1930

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EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
A DESK AND CHAIR, CIRCA 1930
macassar ebony, nickel-plated bronze, leather
desk: 30 in. (76 cm.) high, 75½ in. (192 cm.) wide, 38 in. (96.5 cm.) deep; chair: 38½ in. (85 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Felix Laurent, Paris;
Millon & Camard, Paris, 4 December 1997, lots 165, 165.

Literature

P. Kjellberg, Art Deco, Paris, 2004, p. 218.

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Lot Essay

cf. F. Camard, Ruhlmann: Master of Art Deco, Paris, 1993, pp. 218-219, 221 for a similar desk made for André Granet;
F. Camard, Ruhlmann, Paris, 2009, pp. 242-243 for similar example of this chair; p. 357 for the Granet desk.

Reference no. 1511NR in the Ruhlmann Archives, Musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt.

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