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Property from an Important Private Collection, Paris40Jean RoyèreDining table1933-1950 Oak-veneered wood, oak. 72 x 149 x 74 cm (28 3/8 x 58 5/8 x 29 1/8 in.) Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 Place Advance BidContact Specialist Madalena Horta E Costa Head of Sale, Associate Specialist +44 20 7318 4019 MHortaECosta@phillips.com
Condition ReportSign UporLog InDescriptionOur Buyer's Premium has been updated. View our Conditions of Sale.ProvenanceGalerie du Passage, Paris Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992LiteratureC. Grange-Bary, 'Un Dialogue Inspiré', Maison & Jardin, 30 September 1994, illustrated pp. 52, 54 Jean Royère décorateur à Paris, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1999, p. 156 for another version of the model Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean Royère Paris, 2002, pp. 55, 64 for another version of the model Galerie Jacques Lacoste and Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Royère Volume 1, Paris, 2012, p. 260 for another version of the modelCatalogue EssayThe present table comprised part of the design by celebrated French interior designer Jacques Grange for an apartment for art collectors overlooking the Luxembourg gardens. The Parisian apartment featured a lightness of forms and simplicity of line, bringing together Grange’s personal vision and many of the great French designers of the twentieth century. The present table was used as a desk alongside a ‘Persane’ floor lamp also designed by Jean Royère a black opaline glass table lamp by Eugène Printz and side chair by Jean-Michel-Frank. Period photograph: Dining room illustrating another version of the model, circa 1947. Courtesy of Jean Royère Archives, Galeries Jacques Lacoste & Patrick Seguin.Read MoreArtist BiographyJean RoyèreFrench • 1902 - 1981Follow Jean Royère took on the mantle of the great artistes décorateurs of 1940s France and ran with it into the second half of the twentieth century. Often perceived as outside of the modernist trajectory ascribed to twentieth-century design, Royère was nonetheless informed by and enormously influential to his peers. Having opened a store in Paris in 1943 before the war had ended, he was one of the first to promote a new way of life through interior decoration, and his lively approach found an international audience early on in his career. In addition to commissions in Europe and South America, Royère had a strong business in the Middle East where he famously designed homes for the Shah of Iran, King Farouk of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan. The surrealist humor and artist's thoughtful restraint that he brought to his furniture designs continue to draw admiration to this day.View More Works