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Collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg: Design Masters

Jean-Michel Frank

An Important Pair of Armchairs from the Residence of Charles Templeton Crocker, San Francisco

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April 22, 07:10 PM GMT

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250,000 - 350,000 USD

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Collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg: Design Masters

Jean-Michel Frank

An Important Pair of Armchairs from the Residence of Charles Templeton Crocker, San Francisco


circa 1929

executed by Chanaux & Pelletier, Paris

patinated iron, original leather

one chair branded MADE IN FRANCE

35 ¼ x 23 ½ x 24 ½ in. (89.5 x 59.7 x 62.2 cm) each

Please note that the provenance of this lot is: Collection of Charles Templeton Crocker, San Francisco, California, circa 1929 Private Collection, New York DeLorenzo Gallery, New York Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris Acquired from the above by the present owners, 1995

Collection of Charles Templeton Crocker, San Francisco, California, circa 1929

Private Collection, New York

DeLorenzo Gallery, New York

Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owners, 1995

"A Twentieth Century Apartment," Vogue, August 1929, p. 32 (for an archival photograph of one of the present model armchairs in Templeton Crocker's residence)

Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank/Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1980, pp. 108 and 188

Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank/Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1997, p. 221

Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, L'Étrange Luxe du Rien, Paris, 2006, pp. 204 (for the previously mentioned archival photograph) and 301

Pierre Passebon, Jacques Grange, Paris, 2008, n.p. (for the present lot illustrated)

Jean-Michel Frank, Un décorateur dans le Paris des années 30, exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 2009, pp. 13 (for the previously mentioned archival photograph) and 92

This lot is offered together with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Jean-Michel Frank.