Jean Royère - Design New York Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Jacques Lacoste and Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris

  • Literature

    Mobilier et Décoration (Paris) January–February 1953, p. 3 for a similar example
    ‘Revue Pratique de Décoration’, Le Décor d’aujourd’hui, Paris, 1954, n. 91, p. V for a similar example
    Décor d’Aujourd’hui (Paris), December, 1956, p. 28 for a similar example
    Pierre Passebon, Jean Royère Mobilier, exh. cat., Galerie du Passage, Paris, 1993, pp. 40, 42 for a similar example
    Jean Royère, décorateur à Paris, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1999, p. 70, 98, 116
    Catherine and Stéphane de Beyrie and Jacques Ouaiss, Jean Royère, New York, 2000, pp. 76, 78 for similar examples
    Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean Royère, Paris, 2002, pp. 35, 146, 170, 211

  • Catalogue Essay

    The present lot will be included in the forthcoming Monographie de Jean Royère by Galerie Patrick Seguin and Galerie Jacques Lacoste, Paris, December 2012.

  • Artist Biography

    Jean Royère

    French • 1902 - 1981

    Jean Royère took on the mantle of the great artistes décorateurs of 1940s France and ran with it into the second half of the twentieth century. Often perceived as outside of the modernist trajectory ascribed to twentieth-century design, Royère was nonetheless informed by and enormously influential to his peers. Having opened a store in Paris in 1943 before the war had ended, he was one of the first to promote a new way of life through interior decoration, and his lively approach found an international audience early on in his career.

    In addition to commissions in Europe and South America, Royère had a strong business in the Middle East where he famously designed homes for the Shah of Iran, King Farouk of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan. The surrealist humor and artist's thoughtful restraint that he brought to his furniture designs continue to draw admiration to this day.

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Pair of ‘Trefle’ chairs

circa 1950
Fabric, oak (2).
Each: 32 1/8 x 20 1/8 x 22 7/8 in (81.5 x 51 x 58 cm)

Estimate
$18,000 - 28,000 

Sold for $37,500

Design

12 December 2012
New York