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Rare French Handstitched Leather and Brass Faux Bamboo Commode by Jacques Adnet

$29,970

£22,669.01

€26,469.13

CA$42,681.97

A$43,305.90

CHF 24,739.05

MX$524,326.35

NOK 290,636.77

SEK 290,251.90

DKK 197,867.47

About the Item

A Rare French Midcentury Modern hand stitched leather cabinet, dresser, commode, chest of drawers by Jacques Adnet, circa 1955. Adnet had a rare talent for creating works that had used exquisite form and lines with rich materials. The entire composition is subtly balanced with muted black leather and burnished brass coloration. The piece features brass faux bamboo legs, solid brass hardware, solid brass inset flush mounted drawer pulls and back plates and brass corner moldings. The piece is entirely covered in black leather and has hand-stitched leather drawers and side supports. In all, it creates the perfect balance between the Modern and the Neoclassical. Literature: See Jacques Adnet, Alain-René Hardy and Gaëlle Millet, Paris, 2014. Additional References: Jean-Michel Frank, Andre Arbus, Emile Jacques Ruhlmann, Marc du Plantier, Jacques Quinet, Gio Ponti, Jules Leleu.

Creator:
Jacques Adnet (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 34 in (86.36 cm)Width: 35.5 in (90.17 cm)Depth: 18.25 in (46.36 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass,Leather,Hand-Crafted
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
Late 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
Late 20th Century
Condition:
Refinished. Leather and brass have been cleaned and oiled.
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: AD251stDibs: LU793514285901

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Jacques Adnet

One of the most elegant and innovative 20th-century French furniture designers, Jacques Adnet created a simple, unadorned signature style that is both trim and vigorous. He began his career in the heyday of the Art Deco era, and in the 1950s, in association with Hermès, created chairs, lamps, desks and other pieces that employed slender metal frames clad in stitched saddle leather. With such furnishings, Adnet brought a fashion sensibility to design and decor that had not been seen since the 1920s prime of the great Paris couturier-decorator Paul Poiret.

Adnet was born in a provincial town in Burgundy, where he studied design before moving, along with his twin brother, Jean, to Paris to study at the École des Arts Décoratifs. After their graduation in the early 1920s, the brothers were hired to work in the decorative-arts atelier of the department store Galeries Lafayette, under the direction of Maurice Dufrêne, an Art Deco master who developed a singularly robust and opulent style. Both Adnets showed their work at the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes — the design fair from which the term Art Deco is derived.

In 1928, Jacques Adnet took charge of the struggling La Compagnie des Arts Français, a decorative-arts firm founded by Louis Süe and André Mare that created modern furnishings that bore traces of 18th-century styling. Adnet immediately took the company in a different direction. He developed a simple lithe and lean look that incorporated industrial materials such as metal and glass, along with exotic woods and finishes such as parchment and sharkskin.

Adnet’s furniture begs to be described in terms of personalities: charming faux-bamboo side tables, suave chrome lighting and urbane club chairs. His most noted pieces, which feature sleek metal frames wrapped in Hermès leather, have a character all their own — smooth, elegant and self-assured, they inhabit a room with the same wit and grace as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve.

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