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Property from an Important New York Collection

Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann

"Katz" Writing Table

Auction Closed

June 7, 06:14 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important New York Collection

Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann

"Katz" Writing Table


circa 1925

offered together with a period key

model no. 1508 NR/1023 AR

rosewood, leather

branded Ruhlmann

28¾ x 59 x 33⅜ in. (73 x 149.9 x 84.8 cm)

Christie's New York, December 8, 1989, lot 491
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Ruhlmann: Un Génie de L'Art Déco, exh. cat., Musée des Années 30, Paris, 2002, p. 225
Emmanuel Bréon, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann: The Designer’s Archives, vol. 2, Paris, 2004, p. 95 (for the model illustrated in a period sketch for the office of Georges-Marie Haardt)