A SET OF TEN DINING CHAIRS, 1905

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CARL ALBERT ANGST (1875-1965)
A SET OF TEN DINING CHAIRS, 1905
carved walnut, the shaped top-rails inlaid with blue cornflowers above an A-shaped back-splat (representing the designer's initial) flanked by curving ears of corn, the close-nailed leather seats above curved supports
36.5/8 in. (93 cm.) high; 17 in. (43 cm.) wide

Provenance

J. J. Gallet Collection, Geneva;
Purchased by the current owners in 1979.

Literature

This suite illustrated:
L'Art Décoratif, vol. VII, January - June 1905, p. 259.
R. Waddell, The Art Nouveau Style, New York, 1977, p. 213, fig. 460;
A. Duncan, Art Nouveau Furniture, London, 1982, p. 132, fig. 90;
A. Duncan, Paris Salons, vol. III, Woodbridge, 1996, p. 42.

Exhibited

La Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905;
Salon de l'Art Décorafits, Paris, 1905.

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Lot Essay

Born in Geneva, Angst studied under sculptor Jean Dampt in Paris from 1895. His subsequent work, exhibited shortly after this apprenticeship, was critically acclaimed as it followed a development away from over-elaborate ornamentation to a cleaner and more considered form of Art Nouveau. Very few works by Angst are documented apart a small number of sculptural pieces. The present pieces, featured in a key exhibition at the very height of the Art Nouveau movement, constitute the only full suite of his furniture currently recorded.

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