EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN. A Burled Amboyna Two-Door Cabinet with Gilt Bronze Mounts, circa 1925. Branded verso: (B) twice,...

Description

EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN
A Burled Amboyna Two-Door Cabinet with Gilt Bronze Mounts, circa 1925
Branded verso: (B) twice, Ruhlmann three times
63 x 80 x 19-1/2 inches (160.0 x 203.2 x 49.5 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Macklowe Gallery-Modernism, New York;
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Manzarek.

LITERATURE:
A. Frechet, ed., Mobilier et Decoration d'Interieur, pp. 10-11 (for a similar model);
L. Deshairs, L'Art Decoratif Français, 1918-1925, Paris, p. 69 (for a similar model);
L. Deshairs, Modern French Decorative Art, London, 1926, p. 69 (for a similar model);
"Un Interieur Moderne", Les Echos des Industries d'Art, no. 10, May 1926, p. 15 (for a similar model);
Exposition Retrospective, E.-J. Ruhlmann, exh. cat., Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, 1934 (for a similar model);
F. Camard, Ruhlmann Master of Art Deco, New York, 1984, p. 202 (for a similar model);
Million and Robert Auctions, The Ruhlmann Collection of Genevieve and Pierre Hebey, Paris, October 28, 1999, p.144 (for a period photo of the identical cabinet in situ in the Van Beuningen apartment);
Fine Decorators, Inc., FD, Home of Fine Decorators, Des Plaines, 2001, p. 58 (for a similar model);
B. Foucart, et al., Ruhlmann, un Genie de l'Art Deco, Paris, p. 31 (for a similar model);
E. Breon and R. Pepall, Ruhlmann, Genius of Art Deco, Paris, 2004, p. 31 (for a similar model).





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