Jacques Adnet Coffee Table, circa 1950

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Jacques Adnet Coffee Table, circa 1950

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Coffee table designed by Jacques Adnet. Manufactured in France, circa 1950. Oak table top, lacquered base and structure with leather and brass details. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina. Jacques Adnet (1901–1984) An icon of luxurious French Modernism, Jacques Adnet began his education Municipal School of Design in Auxerre and the École des Beaux-Arts Paris. Inspired by preclassical style, Adnet believed in the functional aspect of furniture combined with geometrical aesthetic simplicity. Jacques Adnet was and was well acquainted with traditional furniture . 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 and were influenced by Maurice Dufrene. From 1928 to 1960, beginning at the age of 28, Adnet directed La Compagnie des Arts Francais. CAF provided Adnet with an ideal platform from which to promote his modernist designs. His team of decorators included Francois Jourdain, Charlotte Perriand and Georges Jouve. Adnet presided over the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs from 1947 to 1949. Adnet worked throughout the 1950s, concentrating 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. He exhibited at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes. Distinctly avant-garde, Adnet and was among the first to expect metal and glass to integrate with the structure and decoration of furniture.

Creator:
Jacques Adnet (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 16.54 in (42 cm)Diameter: 37.41 in (95 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass,Wood
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1950
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Amsterdam, NL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU103981503992

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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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