Jacques Adnet stitched leather coffee table France 1950

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Spectacular and very recognizable ‘spider web’ coffee table designed by Jacques Adnet and manufactured in his atelier in France 1950. This striking coffee table with signature bamboo leather wrapping is a characteristic and recognizable piece on its own. Jacques Adnet already designing for several years before he started to leather wrap his furniture, gotten already famous in the Art Deco period, being highly recognized again for that new and unique design. This specific coffee table has an interesting shape which looks like a spider web with nine feet all connected with each other due to straight bars and also a big ring that finishes the table and keeps the glass top in place. The entire table is wrapped in black leather with beautiful hand stitching and brass rings in between the stitched parts and also nice solid brass feet which have a nice patina. A nice detail is the brass star in the centre of the table which is nicely visible through the glass top. This is a very important piece from the oeuvre by Jacques Adnet, for that reason a similar model appears on the front page of The Jacques Adnet book written by Alain-Rene Hardy and Gaelle Millet. The table is in very good original condition with a gentle patina and age-related wear to the leather and brass. The glass top was replaced so this is in excellent condition. Have a look at our other pieces by Jacques Adnet, we always have some pieces available in our collection. Jacques Adnet (1900-1984) was a French modernist designer, architect and interior designer. He was known for his furniture designs in leather. During the 1950s, he created a distinctive and modern style of 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. From 1959 until 1970 he was the director of École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. He left a lasting legacy in his influence of post war French modernism and died in 1984.

Creator:
Jacques Adnet (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Diameter: 44.1 in (112 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass,Glass,Leather
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
1950
Condition:
Replacements made: New glass top. Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Roosendaal, NL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU933034785562

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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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