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In a black-and-white photo from the mid-20th century, Alexandre Noll<\/a> stands at his worktable in shirtsleeves, sporting a thick mustache below affable eyes and thinning dark hair. Wood chips are piled on the worktable in front of him. Two freshly carved pitchers rest nearby, their contours carrying memories of the trees they emerged from.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Alexandre Noll at work. Portrait courtesy of Magen H<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy to imagine him returning to chiseling after the photographer left. \u201cI like to think of him working quietly, over decades, developing a relationship with the wood and its own nature as the generative principle,\u201d says Jennifer-Navva Milliken, executive director and chief curator of Philadelphia\u2019s Museum for Art in Wood<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, that relationship continues to resonate with collectors. Noll\u2019s carved boxes, plates, trays, bowls, vessels, chairs and sculptures circulate primarily through collectible-design dealers and private collections, prized for their rarity almost as much as for their exquisitely hewn silhouettes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Alexandre Noll walnut sculpture, 1940\u201350<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cAll the forms are so complete in their own right, always true functional objects yet at the same time fully realized works of sculpture,\u201d says Hugues Magen, founder of Magen H Gallery<\/a>, in New York. \u201cHe is the only one in this arena who was able to elevate the functional object into an objet d\u2019art.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1890 in Reims, France, Noll trained as a cabinetmaker and furniture restorer, learning to read grain and density before he developed his own visual vocabulary emphasizing the natural curves of hardwoods like ebony, rosewood, mahogany and walnut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the 1920s, he had begun carving objects from single hunks of wood, working directly on salvaged blocks, without doing preparatory drawings. Over time, these experiments evolved into the compact creations that would define his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noll exhibited regularly in Paris, including the Salon des Artistes D\u00e9corateurs, showing his wares alongside architects and furniture makers rather than the avant-garde sculptors who dominated modernist narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A mid-century carved-sycamore sculpture by Alexandre Noll<\/a> perches near the ample windows in the dining area of a post-and-beam Hamptons house<\/a> by architecture firm Ferguson & Shamamian<\/a> and interior designer Michael S. Smith<\/a>. Photo by Michael Mundy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

That context shaped how his works were (and still are) regarded, more often encountered in high-end interiors and design collections than in art museums, even as Noll\u2019s ambitions extended beyond utility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central to his practice was a refusal to attach fragments of wood to one another. \u201cI am struck by Noll\u2019s idea that wood is \u2018wounded\u2019 by processes of joinery and cold fasteners like nails and hinges,\u201d Milliken says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, he favored carving from single blocks, allowing the unique properties of each to determine the outcome. This approach aligned him with such contemporaries as Henry Moore<\/a> and Constantin Brancusi in their respect for material integrity, although his reasoning was distinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBrancusi gave wood a passport into fine art but on modernism\u2019s terms, as a vehicle for abstraction,\u201d Milliken says. Noll\u2019s focus was on \u201cthe wood as a living material,\u201d she continues. \u201cWe can see this in his attentiveness to the singular qualities of it, and it\u2019s interesting to envision this awareness instilling empathy and deepening his relationship with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of Noll\u2019s most recognizable pieces are household objects that remain usable even as they verge on abstraction.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Alexandre Noll hand-carved wooden box with lid, 1950s<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

A lidded elm-wood box from the 1950s<\/a>, offered by Galerie North<\/a> in Stockholm, demonstrates the balance he achieved. \u201cThis box is a classic design by Noll and one of the types of works he is best known for,\u201d says Fredrik Karlsson, Galerie North\u2019s founder. \u201cThey were made in several types of wood, but to me, this lighter-colored wood has a nice warmth and a natural patina.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collectors often treat such pieces as pure sculpture, even though they retain their original utility. \u201cBowls, boxes, et cetera, by Noll definitely have a function and work perfectly fine that way,\u201d Karlsson says. \u201cI think furniture or decorative pieces should be used as they were intended to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milliken agrees: \u201cThey were made to contain, to be touched or sat upon. To experience them in a restrictive context is to perform precisely the extraction from lived experience that his philosophy resisted.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tension between object and artwork is hardly new. \u201cHumans have been ornamenting and ritualizing spaces and functional objects such as vessels since they learned how to use their hands to make a mark,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“The Noll<\/a> cabinet, carved out of one piece of wood, is one of my favorite pieces,” Ronnie Sassoon told us<\/a> of this piece in her Beverly Hills home. “It has a strength and energy that I find imposing and exciting. It\u2019s a perfect example of wabi-sabi, with all its cracks and crevices and primitive imperfections.”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

What made Noll unusual was the moment in which he pursued that idea. Working in mid-century Europe, he focused on beauty \u201cat the peak of anti-ornamentation\u201d in design, Milliken says, adding that at the same time, he operated \u201coutside the modernist heroics\u201d and \u201cwasn\u2019t part of the Parisian avant-garde art scene.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His sensitivity to irregularities in his material places him within millennia-long wood-carving traditions. \u201cFolk artists emphasized and often anthropomorphized the naturally occurring features of wood in their work \u2014 a knot became an eye, a split or groin became two legs,\u201d the curator notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in the 20th century, wood-loving artists and designers in the United States and Britain \u2014 including Bob Stocksdale<\/a>, Ed Moulthrop<\/a>, Mel Lindquist, Wendell Castle<\/a> and Thaddeus Mosley \u2014 would center similar approaches in their own work.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In her 2018 book, May I Come In?: Discovering the World in Other People’s Houses<\/em> (Abrams)<\/a>, Wendy Goodman highlighted Alexandre Noll’s studio outside Paris. Goodman writes that she was introduced to Noll’s work by gallerist and 1stDibs seller Cristina Grajales<\/a>. Goodman shared her own Noll box on an episode of Objects of Desire<\/a>, the 1stDibs podcast.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Among collectors of fine design, Noll\u2019s reputation is secure. \u201cTo me, Alexandre Noll is one of a few iconic and very collectible high-end classic designers from the French mid-century era,\u201d Karlsson says. \u201cI personally have always been drawn to wooden handcraft, and I think his works are very impressive and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The works\u2019 appeal lies not just in their craftsmanship but in their presence as well. As Magen puts it, \u201cThe sculptures all have a wonderful organic quality, a quiet beauty that you never get bored of looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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