PIERRE CHAREAU (1883-1950)

A PAIR OF 'MF158' ARMCHAIRS, CIRCA 1927

Details

PIERRE CHAREAU (1883-1950)
A PAIR OF 'MF158' ARMCHAIRS, CIRCA 1927
macassar ebony, wool upholstery, with silvered bronze feet
each 29 in. (73.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Grand Hôtel, Tours;
DeLorenzo Gallery, New York.

Further details

caption: The MF158 armchair in a period photo of the exhibtion booth at the Salon d'Automne, likely in 1924. (p 194 in P.Chareau book by Frampton)

caption: Portrait of Pierre Chareau in a 1925 photo by Laure Albin-Guillot. (p. 1 in P. Chareau book by Frampton/Valley)

caption: Pierre Chareau in his Paris apartment at 54 rue Nollet in 1927.

caption: The MF158 chairs in a Grand Salon at the 1925 Paris Exhibition. (Art Deco Interiors by Dufrene p. 221.)

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Lot Essay

cf. M. Vellay and K. Frampton, Pierre Chareau, London, 1985, pp. 70, 72, 73 for other armchairs of this model in the Grand Hôtel, Tours, pp. 194, 315 in other interiors;
B. Taylor, Pierre Chareau: Designer and Architect, Berlin, 1992, p. 53 for additional examples of this model;
Pierre Chareau: Architecte, Un Art Intérieur, Paris, 1993, p. 193 for period images of this model in the Grand Hôtel, Tours in 1927.

Caption: The salon at the Grand Hôtel, Tours

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