DESIGNED BY GEORGES GEFFROY, ATTRIBUTED TO MAISON DECOUR, SECOND HALF 20TH CENTURY

The design for these practical folding chairs was executed as a collaboration between Parisian firm Maison Decour and George Geffroy. Georges Geffroy (1905-1971) was a legendary and sought after interior designer who created interiors for the Parisian elite such as Christian Dior, Daisy Fellowes and Gloria Guinness; Hubert de Givenchy described Geffroy as being "An eighteenth-century gentleman, a figure from another era, one of a breed of decorators that is extinct today' with an unerring eye."
The use of this design was most notably integral to the interiors of La Gaviota IV, the beloved yacht of Chilean millionaire Arturo López-Willshaw (1900-1962). López-Willshaw was an important patron of the arts, collector and society figure in Paris during the interwar years. A set of the chairs from that yacht was sold Christie’s, London, 21 September 2022, lot 58. Additional examples are illustrated in P. Arizzoli-Clementel, Georges Geffroy (1905-1971), une légende du grand décor français, Paris, 2016, p. 61 and 69 (ill.), Hugo Vickers, Alexis. The Memoirs of the Baron de Redé, England, 2005, pp. 52-55, and “Les chaises pliantes s’imposent pour les diners”, Plaisir de France, January 1965, pp. 64-65.