MAISON SERRURIER-BOVY - GUSTAVE SERRURIER-BOVY... Lot 25

MAISON SERRURIER-BOVY - GUSTAVE SERRURIER-BOVY (1858-1910) FOUNDER Bourgeois model Rare padouk and black-stained wood sideboard. The entablature, opening with two drawers in the waistband and resting on two uprights decorated with a geometric frieze in high relief, is received by a recessed structure with two sliding doors in padouk and black-stained wood opening in a semicircular arc. The upper part features a slightly curved pediment, a panelled back and buttressed cheeks. The drawers, sliding doors and upper niche feature geometric friezes with checkerboard motifs in padouk, black-stained wood and brass. The handles, forming keyholes, are in brass and blackened iron. Circa 1910. Condition and restorations, iron and brass parts oxidized. Height: 142cm - Length: 158cm - Depth: 60cm Bibliography: - Jacques-Grégoire Watelet - Serrurier-Bovy, - De l'Art Nouveau à l'Art Déco - Éditions Atelier Vokaer, Bruxelles, 1986. Two-body variant reproduced on page 106 and on a postcard showing the interior of the Serrurier-Bovy store in Liège reproduced on page 102. - Jacques-Grégoire Watelet - L'œuvre d'une vie Gustave Serrurier-Bovy - Architecte et décorateur liégeois 1858-1910 - Éditions Du Perron, Liège, 2001. Two-body variant featured on a Serrurier-Bovy postcard from Liège, reproduced on page 105. - Françoise Bigot du Mesnil du Buisson and Étienne du Mesnil du Buisson - Serrurier-Bovy, un créateur précurseur 1858-1910 - Éditions Faton, Dijon, 2008. Two-body variant featured on a 1913 postcard showing the interior of the Serrurier-Bovy store in Liège, reproduced on pages 67 and 104.