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  Jan et Joel Martel / Primavera French Art Deco Courting Fantail Pigeon Sculptures c.1930

  JAN ET JOËL MARTEL (1896-1966)  France
  PRIMAVERA  Paris

  Pair of courting Faintail Pigeon Sculptures  c.1925-30

  Black glazed earthenware with silver / platinum decorative dot motif.

  Marks: PRIMAVERA FRANCE, 12684

  For related model: The Art Deco Style in Household Objects, Architecture, Scupture, Graphics, Jewelry, Theodore Menten (New York: Dover, 1972), p. 179.

  For more information see: Joël et Jan Martel: sculpteurs 1896-1966, Christophe Vital, et al. (Paris: Gallimard / Electa, 1996), pp. 127-9

  H: 8 1/16” x L: 9” x D at tail: 5 1/4”
  H: 7 1/8” x L: 10” x D at tail: 5 1/4”

  Jan & Joël Martel (the Martel Brothers/Twins, born in Nantes on 5 April 1896, both died in 1966)

  The twin Martel sculptors were among the founding members of Union des Artistes Modernes, and their original works include ornamental sculptures, statues, monuments and fountains displaying characteristics typical of the Art Déco and Cubist periods. The brothers took part in a number of Paris exhibitions including the Salon des Indépendants, Salon d’Automne, Salon des Tuileries and the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in 1925.  In 1932, they created the Claude Debussy monument which sits on the boulevard Lannes in Paris. Between 1924-1926, Robert Mallet-Stevens designed a studio for the Martel twins at 10 Rue Mallet-Stevens in Paris’ 16th Arrondissement.

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  Archibald Knox / Liberty & Co. / James Powell & Sons Serving dish c.1902-1905

  ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933) UK
  LIBERTY & CO. London
  JAMES POWELL & SONS . WHITEFRIARS, UK

  Serving dish c. 1902-1905

  Pewter with floral entrelac in bas-relief and Powell green glass insert

  Marks: 0163 (Tudric number), English Pewter, CONNELL 83 Cheapside London (retailer)

  Illustrated: Archibald Knox, ed. by Stephen A. Martin (London: Academy Editions, 1995) p 97.

  Related models illustrated: Archibald Knox, ed. Stephen A. Martin (London: Artmedia Press, 2001) p 208.

  H: 2” x Handle to handle W: 7 ¼”
  Spoon length: 6 3/8”

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  Sori Yanagi / Tendo Co. Ltd. / Japanese Crafts “Butterfly” Stool c.1956

  Sori Yanagi (1915-2012), Japan
  Tendo Co. Ltd., Japan

  Butterfly stool, 1956.

  Bleached rosewood veneer on plywood with brass.

  H: 15” x W: 16 ½” x D: 12”

  Price: $4,900

  This model can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

  The Japanese designer Sori Yanagi is best known for his 1956 Butterfly Stool. It is both elegant and utterly simple: two curved pieces of molded plywood are held together through compression and tension by a single brass rod. The stool’s graceful shape recalls a butterfly’s wings, and has also been compared to the form of torii, the traditional Shinto shrine gates. He loved traditional Japanese crafts and was dedicated to the modernist principles of simplicity, practicality and tactility that are associated with Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and Le Corbusier.”

  Yanagi, who studied architecture and art at Tokyo’s Academy of Fine Art, was inspired by the work of Le Corbusier and by the designer Charlotte Perriand, with whom he worked in the early 1940s, while she was in Tokyo as the arts and crafts adviser to the Japanese Board of Trade. But perhaps the most indelible influence on Yanagi was that of his father, Soetsu Yanagi, who led the “mingei” movement, which celebrated Japanese folk craft and the beauty of everyday objects, and who founded the Nihon Mingeikan (or Japanese Folk Crafts Museum) in Tokyo. Yanagi fils, who was named director of the museum in 1977, succinctly described his design aesthetic in a 2002 interview in The Japan Times: “I try to create things that we human beings feel are useful in our daily lives. During the process, beauty is born naturally.” Throughout his life, Sori Yanagi was inspired by what he called “anonymous design” — he cited the Jeep and a baseball glove as two examples — and he in turn inspired younger designers, like Naoto Fukasawa, Tom Dixon and Jasper Morrison.

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  Aldo Tura / Italian Post-War Coffee table with furled edges c. 1950

  ALDO TURA  Italy

  Coffee table  with furled edges c. 1950

  Vellum-covered birch with mahogany lacquered cherry legs

  Illustrated: Mid-Century Modern, Furniture of the 1950s, Cara Greenberg
  (New York: Harmony Books, 1984) p. 160.

  H: 18 1/2” x D: 21”  x  37”

  Price: $14,500