BY ANDRE ARBUS, CIRCA 1940

The present chandeliers with their attenuated obelisk-form mounts, overlapping foliate branch ornament, suspended acorn-form pendants, stylized leaf-form coronet to the suspension and interior gold decoration are all stylistic features associated with the work of the Véronèse workshop and based upon the designs of André Arbus. The design (illustrated right) is that for a chandelier for the entry hall of Arbus’s Parisian mansion on the Rue du Faubourg, Saint Honore, executed circa 1942. The lighting for Arbus’s l’hotel particulier was a collaboration between Arbus and Véronèse and his home also featured furniture designed by Arbus and realized by Gilbert Poillerat. Yvonne Brunhammer’s seminal work on Arbus (André Arbus, Architecte-Décorateur des Années 40, Paris, 1996) also illustrates a design for a ‘projet de girandole’ that relates to these and lot 28 (opposite).