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  Pierre-Emile Legrain (attr.) Pair of French Art Deco drop and roll front cabinets c. 1927

  PIERRE-EMILE LEGRAIN attr.  (1889-1929)  France

  Matching Cabinets (pair)   c. 1927

  Golden cerused oak, roll-front and drop front doors,
  original brass keys, reeded base

  Provenance: Felix Marcilhac, Paris

  For more information on Legrain see: Pierre-Emile Legrain 1889-1929 (Paris: exh. cat. Galerie Jacques de Vos,1996); Union des Artistes Modernes, Arlette Barré-Despond (Paris: Editions du Regard, 1986) 119-120.

  H: 50 1/2 ” x W: 23 1/2” x D: 11 1/2”

  The Art Deco movement centered in early 20th-century Paris sought to bridge the transition from academic art and craftsmanship to modern art and industrial production. Regarded by some as one of its founders, Pierre-Emile Legrain (1889-1929) worked at a time of great ferment in art, as well as in society. Legrain’s curiosity and receptiveness to these changes led him to adapt forms, materials and techniques from other cultures.

  Legrain created two distinct bodies of work: an assemblage of approximately 1,200 bookbinding designs and a much smaller production of furniture made for couturiers in the French fashion trade. Both artistic endeavors shared fine craftsmanship, masterful use of rare and expensive materials, unusual combinations of textures and surfaces, and spare, geometrical forms. Nearly all of his creations were one-of-a-kind.

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  Georges Serré / Art Deco Warm ivory /sand colored glazed stoneware vase c. 1925

  GEORGES SERRÉ (1889-1956) France

  Vase c. 1925

  Warm ivory /sand colored glazed stoneware with hand incised stylized leaf and floral motif with a top collar and lower half in a softened geometric repeat pattern all in a light brown tonality.

  Marks: G Serre (hand incised signature)

  For more information see: La Céramique Art Déco, Edgar Pelichet (Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1988), p. 47.

  For more information on Serré see: Georges Serré, exhib. cat. (Paris: Galerie Landrot, 1992).

  H: 11″ x Dia: 10″

   

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  Francois-Emile Decorchement French Art Deco “Bleu” pâte-de-crystal vase 1926

  FRANÇOIS-EMILE DECORCHEMENT  (1880-1971)  France

  “Bleu” pâte-de-crystal vase   c. 1926

  Cobalt blue pâte-de-crystal (lost wax cast crystal) with mauve inclusions, two low-relief friezes of varying abstract vine motifs
  Impressed:  DECORCHEMENT  in a lunette seal, numbered A 865

  For more information on Decorchement see: Art Deco, Victor Arwas (New York: Harry N. Abrams,1980) pp. 268-69, 298.

  H: 4 1/2″ x Dia: 4 3/4″

  Decorchement, Francois Emile. (1880-1970) He set up a glass house in Conches in 1902 producing exquisite pate-de-verre, statuettes, bowls and vases. He extended this range to encompass a rougher hewn surface with motifs of flowers and sometimes insects. His designs became increasingly abstract during the 1930s toward the outbreak of the Second World War; these were often executed in pate-de-cristal. Later the production continued although in a more restrained manner with softer semi-opaque and translucent colors.

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  D.I.M. (Decoration Intérieure Moderne) / French Art Deco / Rene Joubert & Philippe Petit Lounge Chair c. 1930

  D.I.M.  [Decoration Intérieure Moderne]  France
  Rene Joubert, Philippe Petit [designers]

  Lounge chair  circa 1930.

  Primavera wood with Backhausen fabric designed by Robert Oerley

  For more information see: Le Mobilier du XXe Siècle, Pierre Kjellberg (Paris: Editions de l’Amateur, 1994), pp. 165-7.
  Fabric illustrated: Art Nouveau Textil-Dekor um 1900, Ruth Grönwoldt (Stuttgart: Württembergisches Landesmuseum, 1980) p 182-183.

  H:  29” x W:  28” x D:  28”