Design

Design

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 10. Reading Stand.

Property from The Stuart Cary Welch Collection

Jules Leleu

Reading Stand

Lot Closed

October 19, 04:10 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from The Stuart Cary Welch Collection

Jules Leleu

Reading Stand


circa 1934-1936

produced by Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

for the sanatorium Martel de Janville, Assy, France

lacquered metal, oak

53 x 19 ¼ x 35 5/8 in. (134 x 48.9 x 90.5 cm) in its highest configuration

Galerie Downtown, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1998

Emmanuel Bréon and Michèle LeFrancois, Le Musée des Années 30, Paris, 1998, p. 111

Leleu: 50 ans de mobilier et de décoration, 1920-1970, exh. cat., Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André-Diligent, Paris, 2007, p. 101

Françoise Siriex, The House of Leleu: Classic French Style for a Modern World 1920-1973, New York, 2008, p. 178 (for a discussion of the furniture designed for the sanatorium Martel de Janville)