PAUL DUPRÉ-LAFON (1900-1971) - FORMER COLLECTION MARIA DE BEYRIE
Exceptional modernist table, which can form a flat desk, in walnut veneer.
Each polyhedral block-foot is flanked, on its base, by triangular prisms plated with thick brass leaves.
The central floor spacer has a slightly curved top.
Each end has a slightly curved sliding support leg and two side rails on slides to receive, once pulled out, one or two extensions.
The rectangular top has a thick belt.
Presented with two original walnut veneer extensions (two missing).
Circa 1927-29.
Condition of use, two missing extensions.
Without extension : Height : 72 cm - Length : 216 cm - Width : 110 cm
With two extensions : Height : 72 cm - Length : 306 cm - Width : 110 cm
Provenance:
- Maria de Beyrie Collection.
- Private collection.
- Art nouveau - Art déco - Sale Poulain - Le Fur, Hôtel des ventes du Palais (des Congrès), Paris, 23 November 2000. Our work presented under the number 197 of the catalog.
- Private collection, Paris. Work acquired during the previous one.
Bibliography :
- Pierre Kjellberg- Art déco - Les Maîtres du mobilier - Le Décor des paquebots - Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1986. Our work reproduced on page 66.
- Thierry Couvrat Desvergnes - Paul Dupré-Lafon, decorator of millionaires - Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1990. Identical model, possibly in a different wood species or lacquered, reproduced on page 112.
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