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The young Marcel Coard’s career as a furniture designer was initiated in the summer of 1914 with a commission from the great connoisseur collector Jacques Doucet, who was embarking on a project to furnish his Paris home in the most avant-garde style. This commission led to others, for Doucet himself and for further clients impressed by Coard’s feel for materials and for striking new forms. He used vellum, snakeskin, lacquer, mother-of-pearl, ivory, lapis lazuli, and galuchat to great visual and tactile effect – and, as in the present table, he very occasionally used the technique of crushing eggshell into tiny particles in a lacquered ground to cover panels, or, as we see here, the entire surface of a design.
MARCEL COARD (1889-1975)
A SIDE TABLE, CIRCA 1930
Details
MARCEL COARD (1889-1975)
A SIDE TABLE, CIRCA 1930
lacquered wood inlaid with eggshell, chromed-metal spherical balls and sabots
25 ¼ in. (64.2 cm.) high, 13 ¾ in. (35 cm.), 13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) deep
stamped C. Coard with parrot cipher
A SIDE TABLE, CIRCA 1930
lacquered wood inlaid with eggshell, chromed-metal spherical balls and sabots
25 ¼ in. (64.2 cm.) high, 13 ¾ in. (35 cm.), 13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) deep
stamped C. Coard with parrot cipher
Provenance
Private collection, France;
Christie's, New York, 13 June 2006, lot 57.
Christie's, New York, 13 June 2006, lot 57.
Literature
A. Duncan, Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s, London, 2009, p. 353 for an illustration of this table;
A. Marcilhac, Marcel Coard Décorateur, Paris, 2012, p. 155 for an image of the present lot.
A. Marcilhac, Marcel Coard Décorateur, Paris, 2012, p. 155 for an image of the present lot.
Sale room notice
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