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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Doris Leslie Blau Red Art Deco Rug Attributed to Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
European Art Deco Rug Attributed to Jacques Adnet Size: 13'0" × 17'0" (396 × 518 cm) A striking and sophisticated example of French Art Deco design, this circa-1935 rug attributed to...
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Bobyrug’s Beautiful French Art Deco Cogolin Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Beautiful French Art Deco rug with a stunning decorative design in warm, earthy tones of brown, orange, yellow, and black. This exquisite piece is entirely hand-knotted with wool vel...
Wool
Celadon Green French Art Deco Minimalist Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An elegant French Art Deco carpet characterized by an unusual celadon green background, interrupted at about three quarters of its length by an horizontal motif in chocolate brown. T...
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Art Deco Rug
By Art Decor
Located in Glasgow, GB
A very rare Art Deco period rug hand woven in English wool. Most Art Deco rugs come in large sizes but this very interesting piece is smaller. In exceptional condition and versatile...
Wool
$11,400
W 101 in L 125 in
Attractive Red Lozenge Medallion a Navy Background Antique French Art Deco Rug
Located in New York, NY
1930s French Art Deco Carpet ( 8'5" x 10'5" - 257 x 318 )
Wool
$132,000
W 198 in L 390 in
Sublime Soft Yellow Color French Deco Aubusson Rug Attributed -Jean-Michel Frank
Located in New York, NY
Attributed to Jean-Michel Frank (1893-1941) Modernist designer Jean-Michel Frank was able to combine his love of beautiful materials with his preference for strict geometric forms...
Wool
Pair of French Art Deco Rugs 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a floppy handle and a relatively coarse weave, rugs such as these are referred by European scholars as 'travail domestique', meaning that they are home craft product...
Wool
$20,000
W 37.19 in L 48.06 in
Sublime Art Deco Rug Signed by Maurice Dufrene, Red with Floral Decoration
By Maurice Dufrêne
Located in New York, NY
-Sublime Art Deco rug signed by Maurice Dufrene, -About the artist: Maurice Dufrene (1876-1955) One of the premiere French designers of the 20th century, Maurice Dufrene was born in Paris in 1876. He was educated at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. By 1899, at the age of just 23, he became the director and manager of La Maison Moderne. This shop represented an association of artists who were working together to create designs which could be produced in multiples. Dufrene's work was first shown at salons in 1902 and from 1903 he regularly exhibited at Salon d'Automne and Salons of Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts. At the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes (which would later give the movement "Art Deco" its name), Dufrene's designs included luxury boutiques, the living room of Une Ambassade Francaise pavilion, the music salon...
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Art Deco Rug
Located in Brussels, BE
Art Deco Rug
Wool
French Art Deco Narrow Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a floppy handle and a relatively coarse weave, rugs such as these are referred by European scholars as 'travail domestique', meaning that they are home craft products inspired by popular patterns. This extremely narrow rug...
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Antique French Geometric Art Deco Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An Art Deco rug distinguished by a repeat pattern of honey-arranged ivory lozenges knotted with a raised pile, contrasting with a similarly arranged cluster of apricot lozenges woven...
Wool
Pair of French Art Deco Rugs 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a floppy handle and a relatively coarse weave, rugs such as these are referred by European scholars as 'travail domestique', meaning that they are home Craft product...
Wool
pretty mid century French art deco rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful mid century French rug, probably made by Beauvais manufacturer, circa 1940, with a simple art deco design and nice colours with a red background and a white in design,...
Wool, Cotton