Jean Royère - Important Design London Wednesday, October 17, 2018 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Tajan, Paris, 'Design & Architecture', 23 May 2007, lot 70
    Private collection, New York
    Christie's, Paris, 'Hommage à Jean Royère', 20 November 2017, lot 9
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Jean Royère, exh. cat., Galerie Jacques Lacoste, Paris, 1999, p. 114
    Jean Royère: décorateur à Paris, exh. cat., Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 1999, pp. 17, 62
    Catherine and Stéphane de Beyrie and Jacques Ouaiss, Jean Royère, New York, 2000, p. 39
    Galerie Jacques Lacoste and Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Royère, Volume 1, Paris, 2012, pp. 36, 38-40, 284-85
    Galerie Jacques Lacoste and Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Royère, Volume 2, Paris, 2012, p. 61
    Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean Royère, Paris, 2017, p. 233

  • 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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'Ruban' coffee table

circa 1948
Painted wrought iron, brass, limestone.
34.2 x 130 x 55 cm (13 1/2 x 51 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.)

Estimate
£80,000 - 120,000 

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Important Design

London Auction 18 October 2018