Jacques Adnet Serving Trolley, France, 1950s

Name: Jacques Adnet Serving Trolley, France, 1950s
Brand: Jacques Adnet
Rating: 4.9 (49 reviews)

About the Item

Decorative quality trolley or serving cart designed by Jacques Adnet and manufactured by Atelier Jacques Adnet, France, 1950s. This super nice shaped and amazing quality trolley has a metal structure frame which is black painted, the top is finished with black leatherette and is in superb condition, and it is detailed brass parts are an aesthetic feature of the design are kept unfinished brass. The cart is in fully original condition and has an amazing patina from age and usage but there are no actual damages. The nice thing about this cart is that it can be used as small side table to put drinks on, but also as a tv table, console table, it is a truly multifunctional piece. So besides this being beautiful, it is also very functional. Original and authentic items by Jacques Adnet are very hard to find as the furniture from Jacques Adnet could normally only be bought by the Avant Garde from France in that time. Jacques Adnet is one of the most important French designers of the previous century, who started designing in the Art Deco Period and the influences of that are still visible in his later work. His pieces are a perfect balance of modern and classical designed furniture. And outstanding quality was always the most important feature.

Creator:
Jacques Adnet (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 24.02 in (61 cm)Width: 29.93 in (76 cm)Depth: 14.97 in (38 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass,Leather,Metal
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
1950
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Roosendaal, NL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU933034281242

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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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