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Lot 219
  • 219

André Arbus

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A sideboard
  • 67cm. high by 150cm. wide by 42cm. deep;
  • 26 1/4 in., 59in., 16 1/2 in.
the exterior lacquer, the interior oak, composed of three long drawers flanked by six short drawers raised on bracket feet

Literature

Art et Décoration, June 1935, p. 205, similar sideboard with ivory knob handles illustrated, also shown in a room setting from the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in 1935, reproduced: Yvonne Brunhammer, Les Styles des Années 30 à 50, Paris, 1987, p. 66;

 

For a drawing of a comparable sideboard, see: Yvonne Brunhammer, André Arbus Architecte-Décorateur des Années 40, Paris, 1996, p. 98.