Rare Pair of Jacques Adnet Stitched Leather Twin Arm Wall Scones

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Rare Pair of Jacques Adnet Stitched Leather Twin Arm Wall Scones

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Rare and important pair of black stitched saddle leather and gilt bronze wall appliqués / lights with their wicker shades by Jacques Adnet, excellent original condition. French Late 1940’s -1950. The U shaped tubular frames hand stitched in black saddle leather with gilt bronze decorative balls and circular backplate, retaining their original wicker shades. Excellent original condition having come from a private French collection, we have recently rewired. These wall appliqués are worthy of any serious collector of important 20th Century furniture and lighting. Jacques Adnet (1900-1984) Adnet was one of the most important French designers and Architects of the Art Deco period and 20th Century. An icon of the luxurious French Modernism he believed in the functional aspect of furniture combined with geometrical simplicity being inspired by pre-classical styles and was well acquainted with traditional furniture. Adnet developed his signature style of iconic leather-covered furniture in the late 1940s whilst working with Hermès. Adnet was born in Chatillon-Coligny in the Loire valley in 1900. Until the age of 28, Jacques lived and worked hand in hand with his twin brother Jean at the Studio La Maitrise, where they met the Art Déco designer Maurice Dufrene. From 1928 to 1960, he directed La Compagnie des Arts Francais. Adnet revolutionised the industry by being one of the first to integrate metal and glass together both as parts of the construction and decoration. His team of decorators included Francois Jourdain, Charlotte Perriand and Georges Jouve. Adnet presided over the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs from 1947 to 1949. During the 1950s, he created furniture and concentrated on the numerous commissions he received, such as the decoration of the private apartments of the President at the Elysée Palace or the meeting room of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. In 1959 he became the director of École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris until 1970.

Creator:
Jacques Adnet (Maker)
Dimensions:
Height: 38.5 in (97.79 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 16 in (40.64 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Leather
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
1940-1949
Date of Manufacture:
Late 1940s-1950s
Condition:
Rewired: Excellent original condition having come from a private French collection, we have recently rewired. Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Benington, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: 28461stDibs: LU1183226664342

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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 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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