Design

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Lot 65
  • 65

Serge Roche

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Obélisque, vers 1934, pièce unique
  • mirrored glass, plaster
  • 162 x 53 x 24 cm (63 3/4 x 20 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
plaques de miroirs oxydés, miroirs, bois stuqué

Provenance

Collection Serge Roche
Collection privée, France

Literature

Patrick Mauriès, Serge Roche, Paris, 2006, p. 4 pour une vue de notre obélisque dans l'appartement de Serge Roche et p. 70
Bruno Foucart, Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Les Décorateurs des années 40, Paris, 1998, p. 231 pour une seconde vue de notre obélisque dans l'appartement de Serge Roche et p. 233

Condition

FR : Bon état général Quelques éclats au sommet du plâtre. Infimes éclats sur les bords de certaines plaques de miroirs. Un fêle sur une plaque de miroirs 10 cm en dessous de la partie en plâtre. Un second fêle sur la partie inférieure. Quelques plaques recollées. Les fines tranches de bois entre les miroirs se décollent légèrement, certaines présentent de petits éclats. L'obélisque n'est pas circulaire, il a été pensé pour être posé contre un mur. EN : Good overall condition. Some chips on top of the plaster part. Very minor chips on the edges of the mirrors. One crack on a mirror 10 cm under the top. Another crack on a mirror on the lower part. Some of the mirror elements have been glued back together. The thin wood plinths between the mirror elements sliglthy disjoined, some of them with minor chips. The obelisk is not circular, it was made to be put up against a wall.
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