Sellette

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Designer Raymond Subes(French, 1893–1977)French, 1893–1977

CultureFrench

Titles

Sellette
Stand

Datec. 1935

MediumSteel and marble

Dimensions44 × 13 × 13 in. (111.8 × 33 × 33 cm)

Credit LineGift of Dr. Alfred and Joyce Goodman

Object number2016.270.A,.B

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Department

Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Object Type

METALWORK

Provenance[Galerie Makassar-France, Paris]; purchased by Dr. Alfred and Joyce Goodman, Houston, 2000; given to MFAH, 2016.
Published References Subes, Raymond. Art Deco Ironwork. Dover Edition. New York: Dover Books, 2007. Narabaits, Xavier. “Collection Subes,” Beaux Arts Magazine (July 2002): 114. Barker, Michael. “Aspects of the continuing Arts and Crafts tradition – architectural decoration in France in the 1920s and 1930s,” Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 to the Present (1993): 67-78. Cone, Michele C. “Wartime Gilt: French Furniture of the ‘40s,” Art in America (September 1999): 57-69. Kahr, Joan. Edgar Brandt: Master of Art Deco Ironwork. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1999. Foucart, Bruno and Jean-Louis Gaillemin. Les Decorateurs des annees 40. Paris: Norma Publications, 1998. Benton, Charlotte, Tim Benton and Ghislane Wood eds. Art Deco 1910-1939. Boston: Bullfinch Press, 2003. Benton, Tim, Manuel Fontan del Junco, and Maria Zozaya, eds. Modern Taste: Art Deco in Paris 1910-1935. Madrid: Fundacion Juan March, 2015. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed on underside of marble top: 180 F [illegible] [underlined]

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