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Jacques Adnet Cabinets

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
Elevated Fir Cabinet by Pierre Gautier-Delaye
By Jacques Adnet
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A fir storage cabinet by Pierre Gautier-Delaye with chrome screw details and elevated design. Not designed by Adnet as earlier mis-attributed.
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jacques Adnet Cabinets

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Oak

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Jacques Adnet cabinets for sale on 1stDibs.

Jacques Adnet cabinets are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of wood and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Jacques Adnet cabinets, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original cabinets by Jacques Adnet were created in the mid-century modern style in france during the mid-20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider cabinets by André Sornay, Michel Pigneres, and Roche Bobois. Prices for Jacques Adnet cabinets can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $3,014 and can go as high as $24,950, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $14,200.

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