Lot Essay
Cf: Sotheby's, Arts Décoratifs du XXème siècle, Monaco, 13 October 1991, Lot 284 (the same model stamped Ruhlmann, in satin wood).
DESIGNED BY JACQUES-EMILE RUHLMANN, CIRCA 1925
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A palisander chest of drawers
Designed by Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, circa 1925
Rectangular shape encasing nine drawers, three long central drawers slightly curved to the outside, flanked by a row of three smaller drawers on each side slightly curved to the inside, the handles and the sabots in bronze, the body veneered in light palisander, the drawers in plain mahogany
51in. (130cm.) wide; 33½in. (85cm.) high; 17½in. (44.5cm.) deep
Designed by Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, circa 1925
Rectangular shape encasing nine drawers, three long central drawers slightly curved to the outside, flanked by a row of three smaller drawers on each side slightly curved to the inside, the handles and the sabots in bronze, the body veneered in light palisander, the drawers in plain mahogany
51in. (130cm.) wide; 33½in. (85cm.) high; 17½in. (44.5cm.) deep