About Maison Gerard
Maison Gerard was founded by Gerardus A. Widdershoven in 1974. The gallery quickly established a reputation as New York’s premier source for fine French Art Deco furniture, lighting, and objets d’art. In addition to presenting important works of Jean-Michel Frank, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, and Jules Leleu, the gallery has been instrumental in building numerous private and public collections, notably the collection of Walter Chrysler Jr. (now housed in the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA), and the Design Collection of the Utsonomia Museum in Japan. Today, Maison Gerard exhi...Read More
Established in 19741stDibs seller since 2003
Associations
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America
20th Century Specialists
Antiques Associations Members
Featured Pieces
Harry Balmer for Laurel, Brutalist Floor Lamp with Table, United States, 1960s
By Harry Balmer, Laurel
Located in New York, NY
The tripodal base of this striking floor lamp is a brutalist sculpture formed of intersecting, raw-edged steel planes and wires that supports the circular glass surface.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Steel
Likely Maison Jansen, Black Lacquered Coffee Table with Gilt Sabots, 1940s
By Maison Jansen
Located in New York, NY
For the better part of a century, Maison Jansen was a major force in French design and decor. The firm’s work was celebrated at every defining show of the early 20th century, from th...
Category
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Stilnovo, Egg-shaped Floor Lamp , Italy, 1950s
By Stilnovo
Located in New York, NY
Combining humor with minimalism, this iconic lamp from Stilnovo is composed of an opaline glass egg resting in its tripodal, graphic, black steel basket.
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Steel, Brass
Tripodal Floor Lamp by Jacques Adnet, France, circa 1960
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
This elegant floor lamp stands on three slender legs, which, like the stem, are saddle-stiched leather with brass ring joints to appear as bamboo, a style popularized by Jacques Adnet.
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Jules Bouy, Flush Mount Steel & Glass Ceiling Light, France, Early 20th Century
By Jules Buoy
Located in New York, NY
Simple yet elegant, this flush-mounted ceiling light is composed of a rectilinear lantern of frosted glass in a metal framework with curlicued corners.
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Steel
Rothschild & Gaudissard, Monumental Giltwood Blue Sofa, France, c. 1935
By Émile Gaudissard 1, Jean-Maurice Rothschild
Located in New York, NY
This monumental ten legged sofa was designed by Rothschild and Gaudissard for the famed luxury ocean liner the SS Normandie. It is not, however, merely of historical interest, unusua...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sofas
Materials
Upholstery, Giltwood
Jules Leleu, Pair of Gondola Armchairs, France, circa 1929
By Jules Leleu
Located in New York, NY
Sumptuously upholstered in Prelle's luminous Les Danseuses (front) and silk velvet (back), the front legs of each gondola chair are spherical while the rear legs arched. Each chair i...
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Armchairs
Materials
Upholstery, Mahogany
Warren Platner, 1715L Lounge Chair, United States, 1970s
By Warren Platner
Located in New York, NY
With a potential nod to his former boss Eero Saarinen’s Tulip table and chairs (1957), this now-iconic lounge chair combines graceful, softened curves with an industrial modern aesth...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Materials
Steel
Warren Platner, 1715L, Arm Chair, United States, 1970s
By Warren Platner
Located in New York, NY
With a potential nod to his former boss Eero Saarinen’s Tulip table and chairs (1957), this now-iconic lounge chair combines graceful, softened curves with an industrial modern aesth...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Materials
Steel
Franck Evennou, Bourgeon Bronze and Slate Console, France, 2023
By Franck Evennou
Located in New York, NY
Franck Evennou expresses himself in bronze as others express themselves in verse—he has a poetic language inspired by nature, and by all subjects that carry the residue of their past...
Category
2010s French Console Tables
Materials
Slate, Bronze
Osanna Visconti di Modrone, Bambù, Console, Bronze, Italy, 2024
By Osanna Visconti di Modrone
Located in New York, NY
Nature is Visconti’s enduring source of inspiration: “In the quietude of a walk in the woods, my attention is captured by a leaf, a flower, a fallen branch. One out of hundreds. I se...
Category
2010s Italian Console Tables
Materials
Bronze
Christophe de Mons for Atelier des Potiers, Black Gourd-shaped Vase, France 2024
Located in New York, NY
Over the last two decades at the helm of his family's Aix-en-Provence business, Christophe de Mons has gradually modernized and refined the Provençal output on which its reputation s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Vases
Materials
Ceramic
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