French Midcentury Pair of Floor Lamps, Jacques Adnet, Saddle Stitched Leather
View Similar Items
French Midcentury Pair of Floor Lamps, Jacques Adnet, Saddle Stitched Leather
About the Item
- Creator:Jacques Adnet (Designer),Compagnie Des Arts Français (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 74.41 in (189 cm)Width: 16.93 in (43 cm)Depth: 23.63 in (60 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 2
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:circa 1950
- Condition:Reupholstered. Wear consistent with age and use. Very good condition Lampshades are new Leatherwork has been professionally cleaned and restored.
- Seller Location:Brussels, BE
- Reference Number:Seller: ZC171stDibs: LU2994321704262
Jacques Adnet
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, urbane club chairs. His most noted pieces — 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.
- Set of 12 Saddle Stitched Red Leather Chairs by Jacques Adnet, FranceBy Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts FrançaisLocated in Brussels, BEAbout this set of 12 chairs by Jacques Adnet A rare set of 12 red leather saddle stitch chairs. Composed of 10 chairs and 2 armchairs with steel armrest...Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Chairs
MaterialsBrass
- Jacques Adnet Bamboo and Saddle Stitched Black Leather HangerBy Compagnie Des Arts Français, Jacques AdnetLocated in Brussels, BEA very elegant black hanger, made of black leather, bronze and wood. Manufactured by "Compagnie des Arts Français", circa 1960. We are located in Belgium; we present Postwar deco...Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Wall-mounted Sculptures
MaterialsIron
- Chest of Drawers with Two Drawers by Jacques Adnet, FranceBy Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts FrançaisLocated in Brussels, BEAbout this Chest of drawers with two drawers by Jacques Adnet Chest of drawers with two drawers, the wooden structure entirely covered in black imitation leather. The brass feet in...Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
MaterialsFaux Leather, Wood
- Pair of coffee tables with trestle legs by Jacques AdnetBy Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts FrançaisLocated in Brussels, BEElegant pair of coffee tables by Jacques Adnet with tops entirely covered in black leather, bronze corner protectors. The trestle legs screwed to the reverse, in bronze imitating bam...Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
MaterialsBronze
- Chest of Drawers “Pantalonnière” with Three Drawers by Jacques Adnet, FranceBy Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts FrançaisLocated in Brussels, BEChest of large drawers whose wooden structure is entirely sheathed in saddle stitched black imitation leather. The front legs run along the sides of the cabinet to join the undersid...Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
MaterialsBrass
- Pair of side tables by Jacques Adnet – Compagnie des Arts FrançaisBy Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts FrançaisLocated in Brussels, BEPair of side tables in steel entirely covered in saddle stitched leather. Particularly elegant in shape, these tables are made of a single sheet of steel forming the top, bottom and ...Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
MaterialsSteel
- Pair of French Brown Stitched Leather Floor Lamps 'Manner of Jacques Adnet'By Jacques AdnetLocated in New York, NYPAIR of French midcentury-style matched floor lamps in staggered heights, with brown stitched leather and brushed silver metal posts, resting on square bru...Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
MaterialsMetal
- Jacques Adnet Style Stitched Leather Floor LampBy Jacques AdnetLocated in East Hampton, NYThis all vintage maroon leather floor lamp by Jacques Adnet - newly rewired with brown twisted silk cable. Shade shown is seagrass and is included upon req...Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
MaterialsBrass
- Stitched Leather floor lamp by Jacques AdnetBy Jacques AdnetLocated in Bois-Colombes, FRStitched Leather floor lamp by Jacques Adnet Dimensions given without shade No shade provided.Category
Vintage 1950s French Floor Lamps
MaterialsIron
- Jacques Adnet Floor Lamp in Saddle Leather, 1950s FranceBy Jacques AdnetLocated in Los Angeles, CAHandsome saddle leather and metal floor lamp by French designer Jacques Adnet. Entirely wrapped in leather. Made in the 1950s. Tripod leather wrapped ba...Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
MaterialsMetal, Brass
- Pair of 1950's Stitched Leather Floor Lamp by Jacques AdnetBy Jacques AdnetLocated in Bois-Colombes, FRPair of 1950's Stitched leather floor lamp by Jacques Adnet Red leather Dimensions given without shade No shade included France.Category
Vintage 1950s French Floor Lamps
MaterialsMetal
- Stitched Leather Floor Lamp by Jacques AdnetBy Jacques AdnetLocated in Bois-Colombes, FR1950s stitched leather floor lamp Dimensions given without shade No shade provided.Category
Vintage 1950s French Floor Lamps
MaterialsLeather