Lot 25
25
A SET OF FOUR AQUAMARINE-PAINTED AND SILVERED DINING CHAIRS
"Our dining-room..is to imitate and, I hope, rival the Amalienburg. It will shimmer in blue and silver...It will shock and perhaps stagger London. And will cost over £6000" The Diary of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon, 28 July 1935
A SET OF FOUR AQUAMARINE-PAINTED AND SILVERED DINING CHAIRS

CIRCA 1935-6, SUPPLIED BY STEPHANE BOUDIN OF MAISON JANSEN

Details
A SET OF FOUR AQUAMARINE-PAINTED AND SILVERED DINING CHAIRS
CIRCA 1935-6, SUPPLIED BY STEPHANE BOUDIN OF MAISON JANSEN
Each with rocaille-carved frame, foliate-carved splat centered by a flowerhead, with original sea-green cotton upholstered drop-in seat, on cabriole legs
39½ in. (100 cm.) high; 20½ in. (53 cm.) wide (4)
Provenance
Commissioned by Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon (1897-1958) from Stéphane Boudin, Maison Jansen in 1935 for the Dining Room at 5 Belgrave Square, London, and thence by descent (part of a suite of 28 dining chairs).
Literature
C. Hussey, '5 Belgrave Square, London: The Residence of Mr. Henry and Lady Honor Channon', Country Life, 26 February 1938, p. 226, figs. 2,3,4 and 5.
James Archer Abbott, Jansen, New York, 2006, pp. 94-99.

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Lot Essay

The present chairs were conceived as a set of twenty-eight to furnish the 'Amalienburg' dining room at 5 Belgrave Square. Such illustrious guests to dine in these chairs included King Edward VIII on the 11 June 1936, shortly before his abdication of the same year, and Mrs. Wallace Simpson.

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