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Dans le goût de Eyre de Lanux
Description
- Console, vers 1930
- lacquered wood
- Hauteur : 80 cm (31 1/2 in.) Largeur : 137 cm (54 in.) Profondeur : 45 cm (17 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Literature
Félix Marcilhac, Connoisseurs' Choice, The Staste, n. 1, septembre 1990, reproduit pp. 71 et 79
Pierre Kjellberg, Art Déco, les maîtres du mobilier - le décor des paquebots, éd. de l'Amateur, Paris, 2000, reproduit p. 96
Patricia Bayer, Intérieurs Arts Déco, éd. Thames and Hudson, Paris, 2000, p. 25 pour une vue du stand d'Eyre de Lanux et Evelyn Wyld, Première Exposition de l'UAM, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, 1930, présentant un lit de repos à décor approchant
Condition
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Catalogue Note
En 1927, elle partage avec Evelyn Wyld un atelier au 17-19, rue Visconti. Elles collaborent toutes deux à des ensembles décoratifs d'un grand raffinement. Wyld crée des tapis tandis qu'Eyre de Lanux dessine des meubles d'un luxe épuré, parfois laqués, et d'une qualité de finition qui lui permettront d’être présente aux Salons des Artistes Décorateurs ainsi qu’aux Salons d’Automne. Malgré une créativité foisonnante, la crise de 1929 va interrompre son parcours et dès 1935, elle renonce à sa vocation de décoratrice.
Born in America, Elizabeth Eyre established herself in France after the First World War with her husband, the French diplomat Pierre de Lanux. As a member of Parisian café society, she moved in a literary and artistic milieu which included both European aristocracy and Russian and American artists, authors and poets. She followed the workshop of Maurice Denis Paul Sérusier before meeting Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso and Max Ernst. In the early 1920s she met Evelyn Wyld, who had been working with Eileen Gray in the production of Modernist rugs. Establishing themselves at 17-19 rue Visconti, they went into business as decorators with Wyld designing carpets and de Lanux furniture, some lacquered, under the professional name 'Eyre'. Known primarily for her lacquer work of simple line and perfect quality of execution, Eyre de Lanux exhibited at the Salons in Paris before ceasing in 1935.