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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Pair of Jacques Adnet Leather and Iron Rotating Side Tables, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A striking pair of vintage black lacquered side tables by French designer Jacques Adnet. Featuring an elegant faux bamboo frame design and two-tier construction atop a 3 legged base ...
Brass, Iron
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
Pair of Stitched Leather Side Tables by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
A Rare French Midcentury Modern hand stitched leather side tables by Jacques Adnet, circa 1955. Adnet had a rare talent for creating work...
Leather, Sycamore
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
Pair of French Wrought Iron Martini Tables
Located in London, GB
Wrought iron martini tables, hand made in England inspired by an original 1940s French design. Finished with a natural bronze patina as sta...
Iron
$1,851
H 13.98 in W 17.92 in D 13.59 in
Modernist Side Table in Wrought Iron & Red Leather - Jacques Adnet Style - 1950s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in ROUEN, Normandie
Modernist Side Table in Wrought Iron & Red Leather - Jacques Adnet Style - 1950s Elegant end table / side table with a great modernist and sophisticated design. Very reminiscen...
Brass, Wrought Iron
Bakelite, Brass and Iron 1950s Side Tables
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Chic set of three low tables with tubular iron bases, laquered in black paint and ending in brass sabots. The tabletops are black bakelite, with brass surrounds. Heavy, very nice ...
Brass, Iron
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
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.
$1,873
H 18.12 in W 18.9 in D 21.26 in
1950s Side Table Attributed to Jacques Adnet and Guidette Carbonell Lava Stones
By Colette Gueden, Jacques Adnet, Guidette Carbonell
Located in London, GB
Rare 1950s wrought iron and lava enamel side table with magazine rack attributed to Guidette Carbonell and Jacques Adnet. A wrought iron base...
Lava, Wrought Iron
Jacques Adnet revolving side table France 1950s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
This decorative and uncommon revolving side table, designed by the esteemed Jacques Adnet in the 1950s and manufactured by Atelier Jacques Adnet, France, stands as a remarkable examp...
Metal, Brass
$14,700 / set
H 19.25 in Dm 21 in
Pair of French Mid-Century Iron and Leather Banded Side Tables, Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
Elegant pair of end tables or Gueridons in the style of Jacques Adnet. The tables are composed of wrought iron bases sitting on tripod legs ending in brass ball feet. The tabletop...
$16,000
H 18 in W 42 in D 18 in
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
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
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 Gilbert Poillerat, Jacques Adnet
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