Pair of White Ceramic Dove Sculptures by Jacques Adnet

Name: Pair of White Ceramic Dove Sculptures by Jacques Adnet
Brand: Jacques Adnet
Price: 2975 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

This stunning pair of Art Deco white ceramic dove sculptures were realized by Jacques Adnet- one of the most celebrated and influential designers of the Art Deco Era- in France circa 1940. They offer modernist stylized forms of doves- a leitmotif in design spanning back to the ancient greeks- in two positions. One dove appears standing upright on a volumetric rectilinear stand, its tail feathers dramatically fanned out behind it and head tucked. The other dove appears bowed over, perhaps pecking at food on the ground with its tail appearing as an austere cylindrical element. The standing dove clearly appears as the aviary creature that it is, while the bowed one is reduced to the point of abstraction, looking instead like something akin to a Brancusi sculpture. Both of these sculptures share highly reduced, stylized and angular features, and demonstrate a profound economy of form. With their monochromatic palate and clean modernist lines, they would be a winning addition to any style of interior from classic Art Deco to contemporary. They are signed Adnet and are in excellent vintage condition. France, circa 1940 Dimensions: Upright: Height: 14.5" x Width: 3.5" x Depth: 4" Bowing: Height: 7.5" x Width: 8.5" x Depth: 3.5".

Creator:

Jacques Adnet (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 8.5 in (21.59 cm)Width: 7.5 in (19.05 cm)Depth: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 2

Style:

Art Deco (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Ceramic,Glazed

Place of Origin:

France

Period:

1940-1949

Date of Manufacture:

circa 1940

Condition:

Seller Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU793430550362

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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, urbane club chairs. His most noted pieces — 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.