Gabriel Guévrékian

Félix Marcilhac, Paris, 1970s

René Chavance, "Guévrékian: Architecte et Décorateur," Art et Décoration, January 1929, p. 14 (for a period image of this model set within an interior created for Pierre Delebart)
Herbert Hoffmann, Modern Interiors in Europe and America, London, 1930, p. 69
Elisabeth Vitou, Gabriel Guévrékian 1900-1970: Une Autre Architecture Moderne, Paris, 1987, pp. 54, 66-67 and  70
Arlette Barré-Despond, UAM: Union des Artistes Modernes, Paris, 1986, pp. 408-409 
Sarah Schleuning, Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior, New York, 2008, pp. 212-213 (for Guévrékian design drawings incorporating this model)

Very good overall condition. Surfaces are clean with an overall mellowed sun fading as expected from age and normal use. There are a number of scattered infill repairs to the veneered surfaces which is expected. There are shrinkage cracks to the joins of the sides to the top as expected with joinery that has been veneered. Some chip losses and veneer repairs to the foot of each side as expected from age and use. One small section of veneer is lifting to the underside and would benefit from a light repair. There is a ¾ inch surface gouge to one side at the curve join where the top and side panels meet.
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The present lot is one of a pair of stools that, by repute, were created for the Paris home of French couturier Jacques Heim.  The mate to the present lot is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.