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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Adnet Style Leather & Dark Jouve Style Lava Stone Tiles Table, France 1950's
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
A minimal coffee table in the manner of Jacques Adnet. The steel frame is fully wrapped in a tobacco brown leather with a recessed top made of enameled lava stone tiles at one inch t...
Lava, Steel
Beautiful Coffee table by Jacques Adnet, France, circa 1950
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Paris, FR
Coffee table by famous French designer Jacques Adnet (1900-1984). It is a typical creation of Adnet from the early 1950's using 'Piqué Sellier" technique ("stitched leather" techniqu...
Brass
Jacques Adnet Style French Clock Table, circa 1950
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Miami, FL
Jacques Adnet style French clock table, circa 1950, animals and music instrument décor, see pictures Unusual piece, bronze, brass and faux leather.
Brass, Bronze
Roger Capron Coffee Table, Vallauris, France, circa 1950
By Roger Capron
Located in Antwerp, BE
An early and highly collectible ceramic tile coffee table by Roger Capron, executed in Vallauris around 1950, during the formative and most artistically significant period of his car...
Ceramic, Wood
$467Sale Price|20% Off
H 23.23 in Dm 22.84 in
Rattan Bamboo Italian Sofa Table or Coffee Table, Bonacina Style, 1950s
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian Mid-Century Modern design rattan bamboo sofa table or coffe table in the style of Tito Agnoli Bonacina, circa 1950s. Please note that the ...
Bamboo, Rattan
Large Iron & Stone Coffee Table - France, 1950s
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Unusually wide and long coffee table with an iron and cast-iron base, with traces of beige paint. Comblanchien (Bourgogne) stone top.
1950s French Brutalist Glass Coffee Table By Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in High Point, NC
This 1950s French Brutalist glass coffee table by Jacques Adnet embodies the designer’s signature balance of rigor, material honesty, and sculptural restraint. The forged metal base ...
Metal
1950's Stitched Leather Cocktail Table by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
1950's stitched leather cocktail table, the top is a black opaline Great condition France.
Metal
French 1940s René Prou Style Gilt Iron Coffee Table
By René Prou
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Classic Parisian charm oozes from this 1940s French René Prou style Coffee Table with its whimsical gilded curves and upper crust profile. Fanciful. Ornate. The perfect choice to anchor that Upper East Side living room. Simply add some interesting table books and a wonderfully scented floral arrangement and voilà - c'est si tres bon! Gilded beautifully with rich golden tones. Center emblem is reminiscent of a four leaf clover and is framed with an oval border. Legs curve like a chic signature and rest atop ball feet. This table gives a feeling of constant movement and flow, precisely what made René Prou's pieces so unique and sought after. Beveled glass top allows the table's sexy details to be well regarded from all perspectives. Want to see more beautiful things? Scroll down below and click "View All From Seller" or favorite our shop to get your 1stDibs on our new inventory. Photographed and also currently available in our shop: Vladimir Kagan Post Modern Scallop Chaise Lounge...
Gold Leaf, Iron
Coffee Table Attributed to Jacques Adnet, circa 1940
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Coffee table attributed to Jacques Adnet, circa 1940.
Metal
Jacques Adnet Leather Coffee Table, 1950s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Well proportioned French modernist leather coffee table by Jacques Adnet. Iron frame entirely wrapped in black leather, with delicate bends give this piece stunning presence. Very we...
Metal, Brass
Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table by Adrian Pearsall, Walnut, Circa 1950
By Craft Associates, Adrian Pearsall
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A round, vintage Mid-Century modern American coffee, sofa table made of hand crafted polished Walnut, designed by Adrian Pearsall and produced by Craft Associates in good condition. ...
Glass, Walnut
Jacques Adnet Coffee Table
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Miami, FL
Superb Jacques Adnet coffee table, bamboo shaped and faux black leather. Top: 5" H.
Steel
$1,813
H 16.54 in W 40.95 in D 16.54 in
Ceramic Glazed Tiles Coffee Table Decorated with Fish and Bottles
Located in Antwerp, BE
Stunning decor of stylized fish, glasses en bottles in glazed tiles with a brass framework. Measures: Width 104 cm. Depth 42 cm. Height 42 cm.
Brass
Jacques Adnet tripod table in leather France 1950
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Highly refined full leather covered small coffee or side table designed by Jacques Adnet and manufactured by Ateliers Jacques Adnet, France 1950. This super nice shaped and super qua...
Brass
Jacques Adnet Magazine Side Table, France, 1950
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Decorative small side table with magazine rack designed by Jacques Adnet and manufactured by Atelier Jacques Adnet, France 1950s. This super nice shaped and super quality side table ...
Metal, Brass
Part of Adnet Style Small Tables in Leather and Smoked Glass
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
Chic pair of Adnet style small tables. Leather with signature saddle stitch detail. Condition consistent with age and use. Dimensions need to be confirmed.
Leather, Glass
Jacques Adnet Coffee Table Brown France 1950
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Highly refined full leather small coffee or side table designed by Jacques Adnet and manufactured by Ateliers Jacques Adnet, France 1950. This super nice shaped and super quality tab...
Brass
Sold
H 17.92 in W 24.22 in D 13.19 in
Jacques Adnet Bed Side Table in Piqué Sellier Leather Hermes Nightstands
By Jacques Adnet
Located in London, GB
A pair of Jacques Adnet "piqué sellier" or handstitched black leather bedside or sofa table or nightstands originally designed for the Martinez hotel in Cannes (Cotes d'Azur), 1950s.
Brass
Beautiful Coffee Table by Jacques Adnet for Gilbert Poillerat
By Jacques Adnet, Gilbert Poillerat
Located in Renens, CH
Beautiful coffee table by Jacques Adnet for Gilbert Poillerat. Gilded wrought iron legs, original comblanchien top resting on two uprights composed of a half circle and an arched f...
Iron
1950s Stitched Leather Tables by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
1950s stitched leather tables by Jacques Adnet, France Very good condition Measures: High 1st level 20 cm, second level 61 cm.
Leather
Sold
H 18.12 in W 24.02 in D 13 in
French Midcentury Cognac Leather, Glass Side Table with Drawer by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts Français
Located in Uccle, BE
Elegant side table by Jacques Adnet. Bronze structure sheathed with cognac saddle stitch leather, pivoting drawer, high table top in glass, low table top in Faux-Bamboo. Furniture in...
Iron
Jacques Adnet Leather Side Table
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning leather side table by Jacques Adnet. Completely wrapped leather frame with tabletop and lower shelf. Signature Adnet contrast stitching. Brass ball feet and brass corners. G...
Brass, Iron
Jacques Adnet Leather Side Table
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning leather side table by Jacques Adnet. Completely wrapped leather frame with tabletop and lower shelf. Signature Adnet contrast stitching. Brass ball feet and brass corners. G...
Brass, Iron
Unique Coffee Table Stitched Leather
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Stockholm, SE
Unique coffee table in stitched leather, steel and glass, attributed Jacques Adnet. Ref. Alain-René Hardy, Gaelle Millet "Jacques Adnet", fr...
Steel
Sofas Tip by Jacques Adnet, circa 1950
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Paris, FR
A sofas tip with quadripode metal leather-wrapped structure by Jacques Adnet. It is surmounted by a glass ashtray, circa 1950.
Metal