Calderwood Gallery

Early 1920s Classic Art Deco single large-scale armchair by Paul Follot. The frame of this extraordinary chair, in ebonized wood with gilt sculpted detailing, is restored and ready t...

French Art Nouveau pair of armchairs (en suite with #1715 and #1717) by Georges de Feure, model presented in the Bing Pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. Sculpted p...

French Art Nouveau pair of sculpted pearwood side chairs (en suite with #1715 and #1716) by Georges de Feure, model presented in the Bing Pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle...

French Art Nouveau settee (en suite with #1716 and #1717) by Georges de Feure, model presented in the Bing Pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. Sculpted pearwood, th...

French Modernist cabinet attributed to Saddier et Fils, circa 1935 in French walnut with bronze fittings. This cabinet is 71” W x 21” D x 40” H and has very nice stylized sculpting. ...

French Art Nouveau small cabinet by Louis Majorelle, circa 1900-03, with exotic hardwood marquetry in a wisteria motif. 25" wide x 58" tall x 12" deep. Documented. LOUIS MAJORELLE ...

French Art Deco cabinet by Rousseau et Lardin, circa 1940, in rosewood with gilt-detailed parchment doors and bronze mount. Side vitrines lined in figur...

French Art Deco semainier in teak with bronze fittings.

French Art Deco post-war cabinet in slip-matched ash parquetry with bronze pulls and mounts. Documented.

Early Classic French Art Deco side table/small cabinet by Lahalle et Levard, circa 1920. 19.5” wide x 12” deep x 26” high, in purple heart, boxwood, other exotic hardwoods, mother-of...

French modernist cabinet. Pictured in period documentation.

French Early Classic Art Deco cabinet/vitrine by Maurice Dufrene, circa 1912, in gilt sculpted wood . This cabinet is pictured in Dufrène's own Hôtel Parrticulier (private residence), at 22, rue Bayard in Paris, taken in 1918 (see photo below). The lemonwood version of this cabinet was exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in 1912 and is now on permanent display at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris (see photo below). This cabinet is in original condition and a scan of the original drawing is shown here. Maurice Dufrêne (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...