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Lot 184
  • 184

Boivinet, manufactured by Primavera with fabric by Raoul Dufy

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • A pair of Modernist armchairs
  • 76cm. high;
  • 30in.
nickel-plated tubular metal, with upholstered back and seat

Literature

Jan van Geest and Otakar Mácel, Stühle aus Stahl Metallmöbel 1925-1940, Cologne, 1980, p. 145, ill. no. 21;

Baroness Kiztte de Lempicka Foxhall, Passion by Design: The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka, New York, 1987, p. 99.;

A chair of this design is photographed in situ in Tamara de Lempicka's atelier in Rue Méchain, see: Anne Bony, Les Annees 30, Paris, 1987, p. 812.  The room also contains furniture by René Herbst.