Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann - Design London Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Michael Chow, New York

  • Exhibited

    'Ruhlmann, Genius of Art Deco', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10 June-5 September 2004, then travelled to The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jean Noel Desmarais Pavilion, Montreal (30 September-12 December 2004)

  • Literature

    ‘L’Entre, Le Vestibule, Le Hall’, Les Echos des Industries d’Art, no. 19, February 1927, p. 8 for a similar example
    ‘Salons et Boudoirs’, Les Echos d’Art, no. 42, January 1929, p. 8 for a similar example
    Raymond Foulk, Centenary Exhibition Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, London, 1979, pl. 24 for a similar example
    Florence Camard, Ruhlmann: Master of Art Deco, New York, 1984, pp. 134, 151, 201 for similar examples
    Bruno Foucart, et al., ‘Ruhlmann’, Connaissance des Arts, Special Issue, Paris, 2001, p. 44 for a similar example
    Emmanuel Bron and Rosalind Pepall, eds., Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco, Paris, 2004, p. 115 for a similar example on the ‘le-de-France’ ocean liner

108

Monumental set of doors

circa 1925
Lacquered wood, oak, chromium-plated bronze and nickel-plated bronze, bronze (2).
Each door: 249.9 × 66.7 × 3.5 cm (98 3/8 × 26 1/4 × 1 3/8 in.)
Lock impressed 'FONTAINE/PARIS'.

Estimate
£150,000 - 200,000 Ω

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London 25 April 2013 2pm