Jacques Adnet Furniture
French, 1901-1984
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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Creator: Jacques Adnet
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Wrought iron desk with its matching chair by Jacques Adnet
By Compagnie Des Arts Français, Jacques Adnet
Located in Uccle, BE
Wrought iron desk with its matching chair by Jacques Adnet.
Desk in black patinated wrought iron by Jacques Adnet , Compagnie des Arts Français.
The feet supporting the belt of the u...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jacques Adnet Furniture
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Steel, Wrought Iron
Set of 12 Saddle Stitched Red Leather Chairs by Jacques Adnet, France
By Compagnie Des Arts Français, Jacques Adnet
Located in Uccle, BE
About this set of 12 chairs by Jacques Adnet
A rare set of 12 red leather saddle stitch chairs.
Composed of 10 chairs and 2 armchairs with steel armrest...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jacques Adnet Furniture
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Brass
Pair of armchairs by Jacques Adnet
By Compagnie Des Arts Français, Jacques Adnet
Located in Uccle, BE
Pair of armchairs with armrests covered in saddle stitched leather by Jacques Adnet, Compagnie des Arts Français.
Pair of low armchairs with armrests covered in black saddle stitched...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jacques Adnet Furniture
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Brass
Pair of Trestles Decorated with Faux-Bamboo in Copper by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts Français
Located in Uccle, BE
Originally designed by Jacques Adnet to accommodate one or more suitcases, these trestles can also be used as a support for a tray or arranged in pairs as coffee table legs.
They are...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jacques Adnet Furniture
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Copper
Chest of Drawers “Pantalonnière” with Three Drawers by Jacques Adnet, France
By Compagnie Des Arts Français, Jacques Adnet
Located in Uccle, BE
Chest of large drawers whose wooden structure is entirely sheathed in saddle stitched black imitation leather.
The front legs run along the sides of the cabinet to join the undersid...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jacques Adnet Furniture
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Brass
Metal Coat Rack Covered with Fawn-Colored Synthetic Leather, Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts Français
Located in Uccle, BE
Large coat rack, often called in French language "Perroquet", in metal covered with fawn-colored synthetic leather, the stitching entirely made by hand in saddle stitch.
The foot consists of a circular base surmounted by a cross-shaped spacer. The spacer receives the central shaft punctuated in six different parts with relief inspired by faux bamboo. The end of the central shaft decorated with a gilded bronze element.
At the level of the fifth element...
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1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Jacques Adnet Furniture
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Leather
Chest of Drawers with Two Drawers by Jacques Adnet, France
By Compagnie Des Arts Français, Jacques Adnet
Located in Uccle, BE
About this Chest of drawers with two drawers by Jacques Adnet
Chest of drawers with two drawers, the wooden structure entirely covered in black imitation leather.
The brass feet in...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jacques Adnet Furniture
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Faux Leather, Wood
Set of four “Metteur en scène” (director’s) armchairs by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts Français
Located in Uccle, BE
Set of four “director” armchairs, the structure and base in black forged steel by Jacques Adnet.
The seat and backrest in thick cotton with saddle stitched black leather accents.
The...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jacques Adnet Furniture
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Leather, Canvas
Bar Table by Jacques Adnet, Compagnie des Arts Français, France
By Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts Français
Located in Uccle, BE
About this "Bar Table" by Jacques Adnet
Bar table with steel structure entirely covered with rush.
The top made up of 3 thick oak elements resting on ties covered in saddle stitche...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jacques Adnet Furniture
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Steel
Daybed by Jacques Adnet
By Compagnie Des Arts Français, Jacques Adnet
Located in Uccle, BE
Daybed with a steel structure entirely covered in black saddle-stitched leather by Jacques Adnet, Compagnie des Arts Français.
The side elements constructed by five uprights.
The two...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jacques Adnet Furniture
Materials
Brass
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