Galerie Glustin Luminaires Decorative Objects
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Mithé Espelt Square Ceramic Box
By Mithé Espelt
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Decorative square box by Mithé Espelt, stained wood box covered with a ceramic lid showing a single white and blue flower framed with gold glaze.
Marie Thérèse Espelt, aka. Mithé...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Mithe Espelt Box with Bird Decor
By Mithé Espelt
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Rectangular wood box topped with an enameled ceramic lid representing a peacock
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
Jacques Blin Baluster Green Small Vase
By Jacques Blin
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Green ceramic small decorative vas with engraved stylized animals and geometrical patterns.
Signed at the bottom
Jacques Blin (1920-1995) Jacques Blin is a well-known French cera...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Orange Fractal Resin Globe
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Decorative globe made of orange fractal resin in the taste of François Godebski
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Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Resin
François Godebski Fractal Resin Globe
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Signed and dated fractal resin by François Godebski.
FRANÇOIS GODEBSKI (1940-1997)
François Godebski was a Franch designer and sculptor who came from a family of artists, his father...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Resin
Glazed Ceramic Vintage Vase
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Cylindrical vintage vase made of glazed ceramic, mixed of beige and brown motifs.
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Brass and Agate Flying Eagle Illuminated Sculpture by Fernandez
By Henri Fernandez
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Unique sculpture made of a bamboo-inspired central stem on which stands a flying brass eagle. Three lights hidden between a fan of beige and brown agate.
Signed by Fernandez
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Agate, Brass
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This exceptional and ambitious encrier is modelled as two putti, each holding a standard and sitting on the water's edge, the two inkwells with hinged spirally-fluted covers with glass liners.
This important inkwell is based on Léon Messagé's celebrated sculptural group 'La Source' and was originally intended by Linke to form part of his spectacular Stand at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Like seven or eight other pieces originally intended for inclusion on the Stand, it would seem the encrier was a casualty of both Linke's over-ambitious production schedule and the financial burden that the manufacture of such ornate and high quality work imposed. It was eventually shown on the Stand in September after the gilding was finished by Picard at a cost of 90 French francs. The costs of the model were very high: some 2024 francs (of which Message's combined fee was 1158 francs 40 centimes), underlining the originality and complexity. The 1900 Exposition example was sold, along with three important pieces of furniture from the Stand (the Grand bureau and associated armchair, and the Bahut Louis XV Mars et Vénus), to the South African banker and diamond merchant Solomon Joel. A further six encriers were produced up until 1925.
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Payne, Christopher. François Linke, 1855-1946, The Belle Époque of French Furniture, p. 90, pl. 97; p. 149, pl. 157; p. 150; pp. 182-183, pls 197 & 198 as exhibited at the Liege exhibition in 1905 & p. 480 for the original notes in Linke's Blue daybook of the late 1890s.
François Linke (1855 - 1946) was the most important Parisian cabinet maker of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and possibly the most sought after cabinet maker of his period.
He was born in 1855 in the small village of Pankraz, in what is now the Czech Republic. Records show that Linke served an apprenticeship with the master cabinetmaker Neumann, then in 1875 at the age of 20 he arrived in Paris where he lived until he died in 1946.
It is known that the fledgling Linke workshops were active in Paris in the Faubourg St. Antoine as early as 1881, and during this time he supplied furniture for other more established makers such as Jansen and Krieger.
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As the Art Journal reported in 1900 on Linke's Stand:
'The work of M. Linke ... was an example of what can be done by seeking inspiration amongst the Classic examples of Louis XV and XVI without in any great sense copying these great works. M. Linke's work was original in the true sense of the word, and as such commended itself to the intelligent seeker after the really artistic things of the Exhibition. Wonderful talent was employed in producing the magnificent pieces of furniture displayed....'
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Today Linke is best known for the exceptionally high quality of his work, as well as his individualism and inventiveness. All of his work has the finest, most lavish mounts, very often applied to comparatively simple carcasses. The technical brilliance of his work and the artistic change that it represented were never to be repeated.
Bibliography:
Payne, Christopher. François Linke, (1855 - 1946), The Belle Époque of French Furniture, Antique Collectors' Club, (Woodbridge, UK), 2003.
Meyer, Jonathan. Great Exhibitions - London, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, 1851-1900, Antique Collectors' Club, (Woodbridge, UK), 2006; pp. 298 - 300.
LeDoux - Lebard, Denise. Les Ébénistes du XIXe siècle, Les Editions de l'Amateur, (Paris), 1984; pp. 439-43.
Revue Artistique & Industrielle, (Paris), July-August 1900.
Coral Thomsen, D. (ed), The Paris Exhibition 1900, The Art Journal, 1901; p.341.
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