Jacques Adnet Rosewood Cabinet
View Similar Items
Jacques Adnet Rosewood Cabinet
About the Item
- Creator:Jacques Adnet (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 110.5 in (280.67 cm)Depth: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:20th Century
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Hudson, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU80431807882
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.
Find vintage Jacques Adnet furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
- Cabinet by Jacques Adnet, circa 1950, Made in FranceBy Jacques AdnetLocated in Jersey City, NJMultifunctional Adnet cabinet in cherry wood and brass hardware with eight main sections, three are open and five are concealed by a door that can be locked. The concealed compartmen...Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
MaterialsBrass
- Art Deco Rosewood CabinetLocated in Brooklyn, NYArt Deco rosewood cabinet. In original condition.Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Cabinets
MaterialsRosewood
$5,500 Sale Price44% Off - Cabinet by Jacques AdnetLocated in Pompano Beach, FLA mahogany and brass-mounted cabinet by Jacques Adnet. The pair of cupboard doors enclosing four adjustable shelves above six drawers, the sides with four hinged compartments.Category
Vintage 1950s Cabinets
$55,000 Sale Price44% Off - Oak & Bronze Cabinet Attributed to Jacques Adnet, France 1940'sBy Jacques AdnetLocated in New York, NYElegant Oak cabinet on bronze legs attributed to Jacques Adnet, Original finish, can be restored to sample on request,Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Cabinets
MaterialsBronze
- Monumental Danish Rosewood Credenza / Bar CabinetBy Gunni OmannLocated in Buffalo, NYIconic solid rosewood credenza manufactured by Omann Jun of Denmark in the late 1950s. This particular piece in amazing original condition with...Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Cabinets
MaterialsBirch, Rosewood
- William IV Rosewood Breakfront Side CabinetLocated in Lymington, HampshireA William IV rosewood breakfront side cabinet, with a later dark grey marble top above four doors each enclosing a shelf and re-lined in pleate...Category
Antique 1830s English William IV Sideboards
MaterialsRosewood