Important Design

Important Design

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Property of a West Coast Private Collector

Claude Lalanne

Pair of “Williamsburg” Armchairs

Auction Closed

December 8, 09:48 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a West Coast Private Collector

Claude Lalanne

Pair of “Williamsburg” Armchairs


designed circa 1984, executed circa 1986

patinated bronze

30⅜ x 21½ x 22 in. (77.1 x 54.6 x 55.9 cm) each

Lila Acheson Wallace Garden, Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia
Sotheby’s New York, December 9, 2005, lot 47
Private Collection
Christie’s London, October 27, 2009, lots 78 and 79
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Bernard Frank, Les Lalanne, exh. cat., JGM Galerie, Paris, June 1994, p. 50 (for a related model)
Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, p. 81
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, Fragments, exh. cat., Galerie Enrico Navarra and JGM Galerie, Paris, 2000, p. 91 (for a detail of a related model)
François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne: Dreams for the Light of Day, exh. cat., Gerald Peters Gallery, New York and Santa Fe, 2000, p. 73 (for related models)
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, p. 54
Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 326-327 (for this and related models)
Les Lalanne at Fairchild, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, Coral Gables, 2010, n.p. (for this and related models)
Adrian Dannatt, ed., Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2015, p. 119 (for a related model)
Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier et Claude Lalanne, In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, p. 114 (for a related model)