A SET OF SIX 'DROUANT' DINING CHAIRS, CIRCA 1925

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EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
A SET OF SIX 'DROUANT' DINING CHAIRS, CIRCA 1925
oak with silvered-bronze sabots
each 33 in. (83.8 cm.) high
each chair impressed Ruhlmann (6)

Provenance

Galerie Vallois, Paris;
Christie's, New York, 9 June 2005, lot 101.

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Lot Essay

cf. F. Camard, Ruhlmann Master of Art Deco, New York, 1984. pp. 92, 125, 149 and 254;
E. Breon and R. Pepall, Ruhlmann Genius of Art Deco, Paris, 2004, pp. 47, 57, 200 and 206.

Ruhlmann designed this model for the Restaurant Drouant in 1924. He subsequently used the design in other important commissions, including the Grand Salon of the Hôtel du Collectionneur at the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes and on the steamship Ile de France.

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