Logistics and International Shipping
We provide a comprehensive export service so that your only concern is enjoying your acquisition.
• Door-to-Door Service: Pieces located in our Argentina galleries are shipped directly to your address via air freight.
• Simplified Customs Management: We handle the processing of export permits and the payment of customs duties. You will receive your purchase without additional paperwork or surprise costs.
• High-Security Packaging: Following FedEx international standards, each piece is protected in custom-made wooden crates, designed to withstand 1-meter impacts and ensure the integrity of the object during transit.
• Note for shipments to the USA: To comply with shipping company regulations and ensure delivery at the destination, a valid tax ID (EIN, SSN, or ITIN) is required.
• Domestic US Shipping: For those pieces available in our United States storage, logistics are managed through 1stdibs.
Personalized Restorations
Our team of expert artisans offers restoration services tailored to your aesthetic preferences and design needs:
• Cabinetry and Polishing: We perform polishing work on woods, allowing for transitions from light to dark tones (including deep black finishes).
• Upholstery: We reupholster chairs and armchairs with fabrics or leathers of your choice, guaranteeing a high-quality finish.
• Lighting: We adapt ceiling lamps by shortening smooth rods to adjust them to the height of your rooms.
• Metal Treatment: * Restoration of chromed or silver-plated bronze pieces to their original state.
o Chroming or silver-plating services for bronze objects.
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste.
Design, Damon & Marcel-Louis Baugniet, Belgium
Marcel-Louis Baugniet (1896-1995) was one of the most important Belgian avant-garde artists. The four sketches acquired by the King Baudouin Foundation bear witness to the diversity of his work. They are kept at the CIVA, the museum and archival centre devoted to architecture dating from the 19th to the early 21st century. The sketches represent an important addition to their Baugniet Fund.
Marcel-Louis Baugniet was a Belgian artist of many talents. In addition to painting, which he continued to do almost up to his hundredth birthday, he also created theatre costumes and sets, posters, tapestries, collages and furniture. He is known above all as a constructivist painter and champion of “Pure visual art”. This geometric abstract art form, associated with an elegant and delicate play on colours, is characteristic of his work.
Quite early on, Baugniet left his native city of Liege for Brussels, where he studied at the Fine Arts Academy alongside Magritte and Delvaux. He then went to Paris, where he was influenced by the Cubism of artists such as Léger and Zadkine and by the architect Le Corbusier. In Paris he also discovered the abstract art of Kandinsky, Mondrian and Delaunay and it was here too that his fascination with Russian Constructivism was born.
In 1922, Baugniet returned to Belgium and married the avant-garde dancer Akarova, for whom he created theatre costumes and sets that were full of geometric shapes. He also contributed to the Brussels modernist review 7 Arts, which aimed to provide a synthesis of all the arts and to position form as being more important than figuration. This movement took the name of “Plastique pure” (Pure visual art). During the 1920s, Baugniet was particularly active as an avant-garde artist, although he never received the recognition he deserved. Perhaps he was quite simply ahead of his time.
When the avant-garde artists gradually turned to abstract art, Baugniet concentrated on the decorative arts. In 1927, he founded an interior design boutique together with the Dutch architect Ewaud Van Tonderen. The sketch Projet de maquette dates from this year and shows how he translated his radical ideas and conception of society into the furniture he designed, where form was at the service of function. “Le beau, c'est l'utile" (Beauty is useful) is a philosophy that is found in the other sketches including Etudes de bar and Etudes de fauteuil (Sketches for a bar and Sketches for an armchair). The latter is a fine example of the tubular furniture that was typical of Baugniet’s work, but in all of these studies, the pure and plain lines of his designs are apparent.
Baugniet also played an important role in the field of materials, using new materials such as chrome metal for his tubular furniture, glass – as seen in his "Etude pour verres et carafes" (Sketch for glasses and carafes), but also plywood and nylon, etc.
This ‘applied’ art form worked well for Baugniet. His furniture enjoyed great success and was seen at numerous international exhibitions, including the 1958 World Fair, Expo 58. One such example was his famous Standax ‘social furniture’, which could be dismantled and stacked up. Following his projects for tubular furniture came wooden furniture with a Scandinavian look. The four sketches acquired by the Kind Baudouin Foundation reflect well the various trends in Baugniet’s prolific output and facilitate the documentation of his professional career. The sketches are kept at the CIVA, a museum and archival centre dedicated to architecture from the 19th to 21st century. The CIVA also houses the Baugniet Fund, the only collection dedicated to the artist in a public institution, and so these sketches are a particularly welcome addition to the collection.
Baugniet continued to design furniture and decorative objects, which he sold successfully in his Brussels boutique up to the 1970s. However, his talent as a painter was only recognised in the 1970s, when the ‘forgotten’ avant-garde of the 1920s was rediscovered. His committed vision of art, design and society made Baugniet one of the prominent figures of avant-garde art.
One of these sketches will already be presented at the exhibition "7 ARTS: Belgian Avant-garde (1922-1928)"(link is external), at the CIVA until August 9, 2020. The exhibition is an opportunity to get to know the five founders of the 7 ARTS and some of their fellow artists, including Marcel-Louis Baugniet.
Desk lamp Art deco.
Style: Art Deco
Country: France
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Why are there so many antiques in Argentina?
In the 1880 – 1940 there was a grate wave of immigration encouraged by the periods of war that were taking place.
1st World War took place between 1914 and 1918
2nd World War took place between 1939 and 1945
The immigrants options were New York or Buenos Aires. Tickets were cheap and in Buenos Aires they were welcomed with open arms, as it was a country where everything was still to be done.
Argentina was the country of new opportunities, labour was needed and religious freedom was assured, in many cases the of the family travel first until they were settled and then the rest of the family members join them.
In the immigrant museum “Ellis Island Immigrant Building” in New York you can se the promotional posters of the boats that would take them to a new life.
Between the years 1895 and 1896, Argentina had the highest DGP (gross domestic product) per capita in the world according to the Maddison Historical Statistics index, this situation arose due to the large amount of food being exported to European countries, which were at war.
The Argentinean ships left the port of Buenos Aires with food, but they returned with furniture, clothes and construction elements, (it´s common to see this the old buildings of the historic neighbourhood of San Telmo, the beams with the inscription “Made in England)”, as well as many markets that were built in Buenos Aires, such us the San Telmo Market, whose structure was brought by ship and afterwards assembled in 900 Defensa Street.
With the great influence of European immigrants living in the country, the children of the upper classes travelled to study in France, resulting in the inauguration of “La Maison Argentinienne”, on 27th of June 1928, in the international city of Paris, which hosted many Argentinians that were studying in Frace.
It´s the fourth house to be built after France, Canada and Belgium, being the first Spanish-speaking one. Still in place today (17 Bd Jourdan, 75014, Paris, France). Many of the children of these wealthy families who attended international art exhibitions, museums and art courses abroad, took a keen interest in the European style. This is why Buenos Aires was at the time referred as “The Paris of South America”.
Between the years 1890 and 1920 more than a hundred Palaces were built on Alvear Avenue the most exclusive avenue in Buenos Aires. Today some of these palaces have been transformed into museums, hotels and embassies.
In the year 1936, the Kavanagh building was inaugurated, it was the tallest reinforced concrete building in South America.
During 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers distinguished it as an “international engineering milestone”, and it´s now considered a World Heritage of Modern Architecture.
At the time was common to hire foreign architects such as Le Corbusier, who visited Buenos Aires/Argentina in 1929 and in 1948 he drew up the blueprints for a house built in La Plata City (which was declared a World Heritage Site).
In 1947, the Hungarian architect Marcelo Breuer designed “Parador Ariston” in the seaside city of Mar del Plata. After an Argentinean student at Harvard University convinced him to come to Argentina. He worked on an urban development project in the Casa Amarilla, area of La Boca.
The Ukrainian architect, Vladimiro Acosta, arrives in Argentina in 1928 and worked as an architect until que moved to Brazil.
Antonio Bonet, a Spanish architect who worked with Le Corbusier in Paris, arrives in Argentina in 1937, where he carried out several architectural works and in 1938 designs the well-known BFK chair.
Andres Kálnay, of Hungarian origin, made around 120 architectural masterpieces, among which the former Munich brewery stands out, he even made the furniture’s design.
The German architect, Walter Gropius, director of the Bauhaus, lived in Argentina, where he wrote articles for “Sur” magazine and founded in Buenos Aires, an architectural firm with Franz Möller, who was also an architect, where he built two houses.
At the same time several famous designers decided to immigrate to Argentina, among them we can find the well-known French designer, Jean-Michel Frank, who arrived in the country in 1940 and also worked for the Rockefeller family.
Special pieces were made, which were sold exclusively in the country, such as the well-known German company “WMF”, who sold their products by catalogue, which were chosen by the ladies of high society in the list of wedding gifts, as well as the pieces designed by Christofle.
The Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, made special pieces for Argentinean mansions.
In 1904 the first Jansen branch outside Paris was established in Buenos Aires, as the Argentinean clientele demanded a large amount of furniture, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century.
In 1970, the brand Rigolleau Argentina made pieces authorised by Lalique.
The brands Maple and Thompson also set up shop in the country.
The French plastic artist, Marcel Duchamp moved to Argentina in 1918-1919.
Glass signed Gallé, Charder, Leverre, Schneider, Muller and other French firms. They were bought in flower shops and were given to ladies with beautiful floral arrangements.
Some furniture manufacturers travelled to international fairs and bough the patterns to produce the furniture in Argentina, such as the furniture firm Englander and Bonta, who bought the patterns ins Italy.
It is worth mentioning that in Argentina we have the largest community of Italians outside of Italy, as it is estimated that 70 percent of the inhabitants have at least one Italian descendant, followed by Spanish immigrants.
The most Important furniture stores in Argentina:
Comte is founded in 1934 (under the direct management of Jean Michel Frank in 1940).
Nordiska (Swedish company established in 1934).
Churba in 1960, a company that brought foreign designers to present their furniture in the country:
Denmark: (Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl, Bender Madsen, Ejner Larsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Hans Wegner)
Sweden: (Hans Agne Jakobsson, Gustavsberg)
United States: (Herman Miller)
Finland: (Lisa Johansson, Folke Arstrom, Tapio Wirkkala, Alvar Aalto, Timo Sarpaneva)
Swedish Factory: (Orrefors)
Italy: (Littala, Vico Magistretti, Emma Gismondi, Gae Aulenti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Elio Martinelli, Gianna Celada, Angelo Mangiarotti, Mario Bellini, Carlo Scarpa)
Finland: (Olivia Toikka)
Plata Lappas (Lappas Silver): a goldsmith shop founded in 1887 in Argentina by Alcibiades Lappas of Greek origin.
In 2019, in Argentina took place “the Art Deco world congress”, in which we participated as hosts invited by Geo Darder, founder of the Copperbridge – Foundation, in which prominent people from all over the world attended to learn about Art Deco in Argentina.
Argentina currently has more than 100 Art Deco buildings and another 90 Art Nouveau buildings throughout the city of Buenos Aires.
Argentina is a country that has not been involved in many wars, which is why it has been a refuge for works of art and antiques from different periods of time, unlike European countries. That is way many collectors, museums and antique dealers from all over the world visit it, you should not miss the opportunity to visit this great country.
Laura Guevara Kjuder, architect.
