Louis-Jean-Sylvestre Majorelle, more commonly known as Louis Majorelle, was a French artist, metalworker and Art Nouveau designer celebrated for his bedroom furniture, cabinets, chairs and decorative objects.
In 1877, Majorelle moved to Paris from the town of Nancy where he began his studies in painting under Jean-François Millet at the École de Beaux Arts. Following the death of his father, a furniture designer, he returned to Nancy and took over the family workshop. Parisian architect Henri Sauvage designed Majorelle’s house in Nancy, Villa Majorelle, which featured stained glass by Jacques Gruber.
In order to increase productivity and reduce costs — as well as shift the family business’s focus from reproductions of 18th-century furniture such as Louis XV chairs to instead working in the era’s Art Nouveau style — Majorelle integrated modern techniques and processes at Atelier Majorelle (these changes were in part inspired by innovative glassmaker Emile Gallé).
The workshop became known for Majorelle’s distinctive designs and the pronounced craftsmanship of its offerings. There were tables made from mahogany and ormolu that featured handsome bronze mounts and marquetry, table lamps that shared common ground with the prized designs associated with Tiffany Studios, and decorative pieces that Majorelle produced in partnership with Daum, a revered manufacturer of French art glass.
The work was very much characterized by the botanical motifs and curvaceous silhouettes of Art Nouveau design, and the business was successful. Majorelle produced a range of items during the early 1900s and was a participant in the 1900 Paris Exposition as well as the Exposition de l'Ecole de Nancy in 1903.
In 1916, a devastating fire broke out in Majorelle’s factory on the rue du Vieil-Aître in Nancy. It destroyed all of the company’s awards, sketches, molds, equipment and archives of Majorelle’s work. In 1917, destruction again shook his business when his shop on the rue Saint-Georges was bombed by German aircraft. The designer marched on — he relocated to Paris where he shared a workspace and created vases and other vessels in the Art Deco style before he moved back to Nancy. Majorelle designed the Nancy Pavilion at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in 1925 with Alfred Lévy. He died in 1926.
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Majorelle Art Deco Cerused Oak Game Table Mid-Century France, 1940s
By Atelier Majorelle
Located in New York, NY
Majorelle deco cerused oak game dining table Mid-Century, France, 1930s-1940s Beautiful game table that has two positions. The side portions pull-out to make room for leaf that ex...
Oak
Majorelle Spectacular Art Nouveau Lamp
By Atelier Majorelle
Located in NANTES, FR
Ateliers Majorelle art nouveau lamp circa 1905. Wrought iron base with bronze applications. Alabaster shell. Electrified lamp in perfect condition. Tota...
Alabaster, Bronze, Wrought Iron
$14,110Sale Price|35% Off
Art Deco Sideboard by Majorelle, France, 1935
By Atelier Majorelle
Located in Saarbruecken, DE
Art Deco sideboard by Majorelle, France 1935. Fully restored, high gloss lacquor, hand polished. Gold leaf details. Ornament gold plated. Signed.
Wood
Louis Majorelle Bureau Art Nouveau "Trèfles"
By Atelier Majorelle
Located in NANCY, FR
Superbe bureau en acajou massif et placage d’acajou satiné, mouluré et sculpté. Il ouvre par deux portes vitrées, deux tiroirs, une niche sur le gradin et deux grands tiroirs en cein...
American Mahogany
$1,826Sale Price|20% Off
Fine Art Deco Coffee Table Stamped Atelier Majorelle Nancy
By Atelier Majorelle
Located in Brussels, BE
Black lacquered base with parchment-covered table top. Stamped Majorelle Nancy, circa 1930.
Goatskin, Wood
Austrian Art Nouveau Bronze Lamp
Located in Houston, TX
Lovely period Austrian Art Nouveau bronze table lamp. This beautifully detailed, high quality Austrian bronze lamp has been newly wired and would w...
Bronze
Art Nouveau Figural Alabaster Lamp
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A figure of a standing young lady finely carved in white alabaster. She is shown dressed in an almost ‘flapper’ style skirt as she leans with her elbows against an ochre mottled rectangular alabaster column on a further stepped base. Her eyes are almost closed as if she is dreaming. The lower rectangular column supports a fluted round column which holds a hollowed white alabaster bowl...
Alabaster
French Art Deco Pascaud Light Mahogany Game Table
By Jean Pascaud
Located in Queens, NY
French Art Deco light mahogany square game table with a removable parquetry top & ebonized banded inlay trim over a concave apron with bronze trim & sabot. (JEAN PASCAUD) (Related it...
Bronze
French Art Deco Game Table by Jean Pascaud, Mahogany, Circa 1940s
By Jean Pascaud
Located in Queens, NY
French 1940s square mahogany game table with diamond design inlaid top and scrolled capital top on square tapered legs with bronze sabot f...
Bronze
French Art Deco Mahogany Sideboard by Maurice Dufrêne, 1926
By Maurice Dufrêne
Located in Queens, NY
French Art Deco mahogany sideboard cabinet with 4 glass front doors and inlaid trim edge under a marble top with 4 tapered fluted ebonized ...
Marble
Art Nouveau Slag Glass Table Lamp
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is a nice sized lamp with a 17 inch diameter. The base is heavy bronze with with beautiful clean lines. The shade and slag glass are free of cracks or chips. Each glass panel ha...
Bronze
$3,652
H 28.75 in W 38.59 in D 38.98 in
Mid-Century Modern Game Table With Double Drop-Leaf Top – France 1940
Located in Girona, Girona
Game table with double drop-leaf top, maple and Macassar ebony veneer on the outside and mahogany on the inside. French polish.
Macassar, Mahogany, Maple
$3,538
H 29.93 in W 35.44 in D 35.44 in
Elegant mechanical game table in cerused oak. French, circa 1950 1960.
By André Arbus
Located in LE CANNET, FR
Convertible table in cerused oak with a reversible top: one side is covered in felt, while the other is lacquered green. Wooden leaves pivot out from each corner. French decorator pi...
Oak
Jules Leleu Attributed Art Deco French Sideboard
By Jules Leleu
Located in Bradenton, FL
A French Art Deco period sideboard attributed to Jules Leleu. Made of mahogany, it consists of four seperate pieces secured together with bolts. A central cabinet with a beveled frame has book matched cabinet doors decorated with an elaborately scrolled brass escutcheon. Inside are two hand dovetailed drawers above a single shelf. Serpentine cabinets on either side each house a serpentine curved shelf...
Brass
Elegant French Art Deco Table, Macassar, 1940s
By Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Jules Leleu
Located in Split, Splitsko-dalmatinska županija
Dining table, Macassar, France, 1940s. Majestic centre table in Macassar. This Art Deco table shows great craftsmanship. The base and legs are beautifully detailed. This table has...
Brass
$9,132
H 38.59 in W 114.97 in D 21.26 in
Italian Art Deco Sideboard with Mirror in the Style of Osvaldo Borsani, 1940s
By Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Traversetolo, IT
This elegant Italian sideboard, produced in the 1940s, is a refined example of high-end Italian decorative furniture inspired by the work of Osvaldo Borsani. Its sculptural proportio...
Marble
Art Deco Coffee Table
Located in Hronská Breznica, Banskobystrický kraj
Art Deco cofee table professionally stained and repolished.
Walnut
Fine Art Deco Sideboard Designed by Christian Krass
By Christian Krass
Located in New York, NY
A fine and elegant Art Deco sideboard designed by Christian Krass.
Giltwood, Oak
Art Deco Italian Parchment Sideboard, 1930s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Art Deco Italian parchment sideboard, 1930s.
Parchment Paper
Hungarian Art Deco Coffee Table
Located in Chicago, IL
This vintage Art Deco coffee table is from Budapest, Hungary, and was made from walnut and glass, c. 1940. The table features a glass to...
Glass, Walnut
Daum Nancy and Majorelle Art Deco Suspension
By Atelier Majorelle, Daum
Located in NANTES, FR
Art deco suspension around 1925 signed Daum Nancy wrought iron frame made by the Majorelle workshops. Electrified and in perfect condition. Mater...
Glass
Majorelle Art Nouveau Lamp
By Atelier Majorelle
Located in NANTES, FR
Majorelle Art Nouveau lamp Large lamp around 1900 foot in gilded bronze and lampshade in alabaster. Very good quality of bronze and pretty floral m...
Alabaster, Bronze
Art Deco Side Center Game Table Signed by Majorelle, France, 1925
By Atelier Majorelle
Located in Saarbruecken, DE
Majorelle (1859-1926) Art Deco circular occasional or center table was build as game table with four extendable trays. Produced at ateliers majorelle France, Ecole Nancy, 1925. Fu...
Rosewood, Lacquer
Art nouveau gueridon by Louis Majorelle
By Atelier Majorelle
Located in Brussels, BE
Art nouveau gueridon by Louis Majorelle
Majorelle Modernist Cerused Deco Oak Console Table, France, 1940s
By Atelier Majorelle
Located in New York, NY
Majorelle Cerused deco console bar table, France, 1940s. Was originally part of a set. This piece is not signed but guaranteed to be Majorelle as the other piece this originally c...
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H 56.75 in W 65.63 in D 82.5 in
Louis Majorelle "Pirouette" Art Nouveau Figured Mahogany Bed, circa 1910
By Atelier Majorelle, Louis Majorelle
Located in Shippensburg, PA
This incredibly fine work of art is from the Pirouette collection by Louis Majorelle; it is unsigned, but we acquired it along with the matching dresser and mirror, both of which are...
Brass, Bronze
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H 28 in W 17 in D 17 in
Majorelle Six Grey Cerused Oak Brown Barrel Chairs Art Deco, France, 1930s-1940s
By Atelier Majorelle
Located in New York, NY
Marjorelle six cerused grey oak barrel chairs Art Deco, France, 1930-1940 Beautiful and rare. Six brown cerused barrel chairs in amazing original ...
Oak