Nice - Decorative Art

Pair of herons, sculpture, Paine bronze iron, circa 2000, France. Height (the one with the neck upwards) 2m70, diameter 80 cm, the other heron height 2m25, diameter 75 cm.

Exceptional staircase called Cité radieuse by Charles Edouard Jeanneret called Le Corbusier (1887-1965) Uprights in larch, eleven steps in exotic wood. Ramps in black lacquered metal manufactured by the Jean Prouvé workshops. Restoration of use and maintenance on the ramps. Dimensions: H: 2.30; L: 69cm Provenance: Housing unit, Briey en Forêt. The staircase, identical in each duplex, is the result of close collaboration between Jean PROUVE and LE CORBUSIER. Its beginnings date back to 1922. Le Corbusier wanted to create "vertical garden cities", capable of simultaneously responding to the aspiration of the individual house (in contact with nature) and the advantages of the collective building (access to modern equipment ). This idea, perfected during the 1930s, resulted in a project for a large building in 1939, with "inner streets", "duplex" apartments, equipped roof terrace and integrated shops. The Briey Housing Unit, also called the Radiant City of Briey-en-Forêt, is a housing unit built between 1959 and 1960 in Meurthe-et-Moselle by the Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier according to the model that he established for Marseille. The housing unit project is part of a larger project for a new residential area in the heart of the forest, in this town in the Lorraine mining basin. It is Georges-Henri Pingusson who is the chief architect of this neighborhood project and who is also building two sets of 100 housing units and a school near the unit. The objective is to accommodate the population then in full increase in connection with the expansion of the iron mines and the steel industry. In 1955, Le Corbusier entered into official contact with the town hall of Briey, he was appointed chief architect of the project and André Wogenscky...

Andre Acquart (1922-2016) Suite of six wooden doors with painted decoration on one side of an androgynous character holding a candlestick on a pink background. Each door is signed. B...

Pablo Picasso Madoura, Scène de plage, 1956, stamped and marked edition Picasso and Madoura. Edition Picasso. Partially glazed ceramic. Measures: Diameter 25 cm. Biography: Si...

Foldable library ladder, wood and leather, circa 1950, English. Measures: Height 2m35 (open), height (closed) 2m65, width 32 cm, depth 10 cm.

Sculpture by Georges Pelletier, unglazed ceramic, signed, circa 1970, France. Height: 64 cm, width: 42 cm, depth: 15 cm. Certificate of authenticity of the Artist.

Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988), "Soleil Levant" BedHead, circa 1975, Italy, Lithographic transfer-printed wood, pine, painted wood, Small accident on the right corner. Height: 1...