Important Design
Important Design
Property of An Important Swiss Private Collection
Pair of lounge chairs
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Armand-Albert Rateau
Pair of lounge chairs
Circa 1920-1925
Carved and molded gilt wood and silk upholstery
Stamped AA RATEAU twice on each lounge chair and numbered 51x1 526 under the seat of one lounge chair
82 x 53 x 67 cm ; 32 ¼ x 20 ⅞ x 26 ⅜ in.
Armand Albert Rateau collection, Paris
Thence by descent
Rouillac, Cheverny, 16 June 2014, lot 409
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private collection, Switzerland
For a similar model :
Evelyne Schlumberger, "Au 16 rue Barbet-de-Jouy avec Jeanne Lanvin", Connaissance des Arts, Paris, August 1963, p. 69-70
Yvonne Brunhammer, Le style 1925, Paris, 1987, p. 40
Franck Olivier-Vial et François Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau : un baroque chez les modernes, Paris, 1992, p. 36-37, 39 and 47
Hélène Guéné, Décoration et haute couture : Armand Albert Rateau pour Jeanne Lanvin, un autre Art déco, Paris, 2006, p. 126-127, 130-131 and 137
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