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Jules Leleu, Mahogany Writing Table, France, circa 1940
$29,500

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Mahogany and gilt bronze writing table with two drawers by Jules Leleu
For an illustration of an identical table, see Siriex, Françoise. The House of Leleu. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2008. 213.
For an illustration of a similar game table, see Mobilier et Décoration, No. 6. Juillet-Aout, 1954. 249.
Details
- CreatorJules Leleu (Designer)
- DimensionsHeight: 29 in. (73.66 cm)Width: 35.25 in. (89.54 cm)Depth: 25.5 in. (64.77 cm)
- StyleArt Deco (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques
- Place of Origin
- Period
- Date of Manufacturecirca 1940
- ConditionRefinished. Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Minor structural damages. Minor fading.
- Seller LocationNew York, NY
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About the Designer
Jules Leleu
A designer and ensemblier, Jules Leleu was one of the key authors of the Art Deco movement. While he did not win the fame of such contemporaries as Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Jean-Michel Frank, Leleu had a longer career and was easily their peer in the conception of trim, refined furniture forms and in the use of the opulent materials — from lacquer and ivory to sharkskin and exotic woods — that were a keynote of haute Art Deco design. Leleu was born into a family of artisans and decorators. Their firm, Maison Leleu, had existed since the 18th century and Jules would guide it through much of the 20th. (The business lasted until 1973, headed at the end by Jules's children.) He studied architecture, served as an aviator in World War I, and after the conflict took up design full-time. Leleu presented work at the 1925 exposition in Paris that gave us the term Art Deco, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York purchased a burl amboyna wood commode by Leleu directly from the show. As the furniture presented here shows, Leleu was a stickler for precision craft and preferred to let his materials do the talking — his furniture is generally spare and sleek; its presence is established by figuring (or patterning/graining) in the wood and the occasional marquetry medallion. He had a keen eye for currents in design, and an adaptable sensibility. Maison Leleu would embrace many of the starker forms of modernism after the 1940s, as well as new materials such as artificial lacquer and plastics (then considered cutting-edge rather than cheap). Jules Leleu is a guiding light of 20th-century modernism: a man whose work represents both a devotion to traditional handiwork and an appreciation for the next wave in design.

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