
Collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg: Design Masters
An Important Pair of Armchairs from the Residence of Charles Templeton Crocker, San Francisco
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April 22, 07:10 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
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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
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.
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