Auction on
05 April 2024 - 14:01 (CEST) -
Salle 6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
In cherry red, Jean Royère's iconic "Ours polaire" (Polar Bear) is even softer and more cozy, making you want to curl up on it.
Jean Royère (1902-1981), Boule sofa known as "Polar Bear", c. 1952, beechwood frame, banana back and seat cushion, entirely covered in red mohair velvet. It stands on five slightly recessed cylindrical oak legs, 78 x 230 x 130 cm/30.7 x 90.5 x 51.1in. Estimate: €300,000/400,000 Jean Royère Estate / adagp, paris, 2024
Jean Royère (1902-1981), Boule sofa known as "Polar Bear", c. 1952, beechwood frame, banana back and seat cushion, entirely covered in red mohair velvet. It stands on five slightly recessed cylindrical oak legs, 78 x 230 x 130 cm/30.7 x 90.5 x 51.1in. Estimate: €300,000/400,000 Jean Royère Estate / adagp, paris, 2024
On the ice floes, polar bears are white; with French designer Jean Royère (1902-1981), they can be red, and it's not an effect of global warming! In fact, when he created the sofa destined to become an icon of twentieth-century design, this was out of the question. The Boule or Banane model, created to redecorate his mother's apartment on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in Paris,…
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