Set of Six Woven Rope Chairs from the collection of Thierry Despont

Upholstered in Dedar fabric. Robert Guillerme studied design and architecture at the École Boule, graduating in 1934. After the Second World War he moved to Lille, in the north of...

Upholstered in Dedar fabric. Robert Guillerme studied design and architecture at the École Boule, graduating in 1934. After the Second World War he moved to Lille, in the north of...

Like other great designers of his era Jean Pascaud was as much a traditionalist as an innovator. He shied away from the bland, in-styles of the 1930s. His work is simple, yet technic...

Robert Guillerme studied design and architecture at the École Boule, graduating in 1934. After the Second World War he moved to Lille, in the north of France, where he decorated homes and designed furniture for the well regarded Rogier workshops. In 1948 Jacques Chambron left his work as a painter and decorator on the Rue Nollet in Paris, and relocated his family to join Guillerme. The two had met in 1940 while imprisoned by the Germans in East Prussia and bonded over, among other more obvious things, their shared passion for design. In 1949 the pair discovered Émile Dariosecq, a master cabinet maker who had a shop in the city, and who was willing to produce their designs. The three started Votre Maison. The association was destined to be as influential as prolific. Not only did Votre Maison produce over two thousand models during the later half of the twentieth century, it also left an indelible stamp on design of the 50s, 60s and 70s. The company’s output served as a model for a vast field of livable contemporaneous design. The soul of Guillerme et Chambron’s work was in the company’s name (“Your House"). Their focus was as keenly attuned to functionality—furniture’s use in daily life—as to the creation of innovative design. For the pair of designers the home was envisioned as a place where the family could live both comfortably and in aesthetic harmony. Robert Guillerme, who designed most of the work, possessed a limitless creative ambition, producing designs for everything from grand dressers and sideboards to the smallest elements of a space, such as pedestals, shelving, benches, and lighting. This steady output of beautiful furniture bucked convention not merely in the equal emphasis Guillerme placed on function and aesthetics, but in the almost paradoxical creation...

Lovely pair of woven chairs from Italy, 1960s. Light woven wicker scoop seats with rattan and bamboo frame. Original finish shows nice age and patina.

Set of six vintage 1980s Spanish woven wicker and bamboo chairs.

circa Mid20thC Set Mid 20thC English Wicker Dining Chairs Set of 6 sku 1645 W46 x D43 x H96 cm

Comprising four armchairs and two side chairs; each with custom blue and brown checked chenille seat cushions; bearing metal label Lloyd Loom Italia. Dime...