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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Elevated Fir Cabinet by Pierre Gautier-Delaye
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Stamford, CT
A fir storage cabinet by Pierre Gautier-Delaye with chrome screw details and elevated design. Not designed by Adnet as earlier mis-attributed.
Fir
pair of 1950's oak bedside tables by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in London, Lambeth
A pair of oak bedside cabinets by Jacques Adnet geometric shaped sides and bottom storage draws.
Oak
Pierre-Paul Montagnac Cabinet
By Pierre-Paul Montagnac
Located in Philadelphia, PA
French 1940s cabinet by Pierre-Paul Montagnac. Model exhibited at the 1945 Salon d'Automne. This cabinet is a masterpiece of French cabinet-making designed by Pierre-Paul Montagnac....
Metal
Pierre Chareau French Art Deco Two-Piece Ebonized Tall Cabinet
By Pierre Chareau
Located in Queens, NY
French Art Deco (1925) ebonized two-piece cabinet with the bottom section containing two large sliding doors flanked on the right by three smaller drawers and the top section having ...
Brass
1950's Stitched Leather shelves by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
1950's Stitched leather book case in clear brown leather Very good condition
Metal, Brass
Jacques Adnet Chest of Drawers, France 1950's
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
Olive green Chest of drawers with faux bamboo leather wrapped legs, recessed brass campaign handles.
Brass
Bedside Tables Ceruse Oak Wood Glass, 1970
Located in Vienna, AT
Nice ceruse oak bedside tables with drawers, made in the 1970s. Dimensions are 24" x 24" x 24" A quite versatile wooden pair of large bedside...
Brass
$1,221Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 26.38 in W 17.72 in D 14.18 in
French Pair of Nightstands Side Cabinets Bedside Oak &Marble Top Midcentury
Located in Labrit, Landes
French side cabinets nightstand of 1960s. Marble and oak hand carved with floral motifs This 20th midcentury nightstands are remarkable for their atypical shape. One drawer and o...
Marble, Chrome
Pierre Chapo Cabinet Model 'R18' in Solid Elm
By Pierre Chapo
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Pierre Chapo, cabinet model 'R18', solid elm, France, 1960s This exquisitely crafted 'R18' cabinet combines a simplified yet complex design combined with nifty, solid construction d...
Elm
18th C Style Italian Old Fir 12 Drawer Pharmacy Cabinet To Order
Located in Encinitas, CA
Classic Italian pharmacy 12 drawer counter cabinet constructed in Old Fir with rustic forged drawer pulls. Antique reproduction with custom size available and a variety of options by quote. Note the difference in drawer sizes. Floor model measures: 78.5” L x 21.25” D x 33” H Floor model available for immediate delivery; contact us for a delivery quote. Save this listing to receive our Private Offer for this item only: $7,490.00 Our Tuscan style credenza line is available in custom size, configuration of doors and drawers and interiors by quote - and in all of our solid aged wood finish & color options. Please inquire. Expedited shipping options. Bellini’s Old World Collection...
Fir
$801Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 20.08 in W 18.71 in D 12.6 in
French Nightstand Side Cabinet Bedside Oak & Wicker Table Compas Feet, 1950
Located in Labrit, Landes
Side cabinet bedside table nightstand, a with one drawer. Massive oak. Very stylish with its wicker ornementation on the front of the drawer. Typical style of the 1950 years with its...
Oak, Wicker
$68,000
H 29.93 in W 47.25 in D 23.63 in
Jacques Adnet - A French 1950s Desk with Lamp by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jacques Adnet - A fine French Mid-Century rectangular desk and lamp, with a black lacquered metal base, pivoting leather covered drawer, saddle-stitched leather mail holder...
Metal
Jacques Adnet Leather and Oak Desk, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monumental Art Deco era desk by French Art Deco Modernist designer Jacques Adnet. Iron frame with 4 posts, inverted u-shaped bases and brass support ...
Brass, Iron
Jacques Adnet French Modernist small mirrored cabinet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in London, GB
Beautiful small French modernist two door mirrored cabinet with one internal shelf and fantastic solid glass ball handles. One mirrored door has been replaced and there are two minor...
Mirror, Wood
Petit Cabinet by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in LAMBLORE, FR
This oak cabinet embodies the understated elegance and functionality of French design from the interwar period. Rectangular in shape and defined by clean lines, it rests on four slig...
Oak
Mirror Cabinet by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in MADRID, ES
Mirror cabinet designed by the designer Jacques Adnet with two doors. An icon of luxurious French Modernism, Jacques Adnet grew up with the 20th Century. He attended the Municipal ...
Glass, Wood
Walnut And Sycamore Four Door Cabinet By Jacques Adnet, France, 1950s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
1950's French Jacques Adnet four door cabinet. Exceptional design with very pronounced raised pyramid panel front doors. Walnut exterior and sycamore interior. Molded interior paneled doors...
Sycamore, Walnut
Rare Equestrian-Style Cabinet by Jacques Adnet, France, c. 1950s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York City, NY
Rare and Exceptional Equestrian-Style Cabinet in Ash, Leather, and Iron by Jacques Adnet, France, c. 1950s.
Iron
Jacques Adnet Bar Cabinet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Jacques Adnet lacquered wood cabinet with signature leather stitched bamboo legs Originally a bar cabinet with glass shelf Sycamore veneer, leather, brass.
Leather, Wood
1950s Bedside Cabinet Night Table by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in London, Lambeth
A oak wood side or night table designed by Jacques Adnet in 1947 for the Brest, France model apartment in the International Exposition for Urbanism and Housing. They were manufactured by the Atelier Saint Sabin...
Oak
Incredible Polished Oak Low Armoire by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Incredible Polished Oak Low Armoire by Jacques Adnet. This piece was purchasef at auction in Paris and shipped to our Los Angeles gallery by container. J...
Oak
Jacques Adnet Parchment Sideboard, circa 1930s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Adnet parchment covered wood cabinet with patinated metal pulls and hardware. Jacques Adnet (1900-1984) was a furniture designer known for his...
Metal
Jacques Adnet, Limed Oak Cabinet, France, C. 1946
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
Two-door cabinet in limed oak with wrought iron handles, by Jacques Adnet For illustrations of similar, larger cabinets, see: Cheronnet, Louis. Jacques Adnet. Paris: Art et Indus...
Wrought Iron
1950s Cabinet by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
Nice cabinet for dinner silver tools by Jacques Adnet. Rare piece.
Brass
Rare Two Door Oak Cabinet by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
A rare two door cabinet by Jacques Adnet in oak with a black wrought iron frame and rope details.
Wrought Iron