A Collection That We Dreamt Of: Art and Design from the New York Townhouse of Delphine and Reed Krakoff

A Collection That We Dreamt Of: Art and Design from the New York Townhouse of Delphine and Reed Krakoff

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Emile Jacques Ruhlmann

"Collectionneur" Coiffeuse and Stool

Auction Closed

June 8, 06:23 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Emile Jacques Ruhlmann

"Collectionneur" Coiffeuse and Stool

circa 1925

the coiffeuse model no. 1514AR

mahogany, ivorine, shagreen, nickel-plated metal, mirrored glass

branded Ruhlmann with the Atelier A stamp within a circle

coiffeuse: 48 3/4 x 37 1/4 x 19 1/2 in. (123.8 x 94.6 x 49.5 cm) 

stool: 26 x 16 3/8 x 22 (66 x 41.4 x 55.9 cm)

Altina Schinasi Miranda, New York, 1928
Sotheby's New York, December 3, 1999, lot 300
DeLorenzo Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owners, 2003
Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco, exh. cat., Musée des années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt, 2004, pp. 50 (for a period photograph of the model in situ, 1925) and 196-197
Florence Camard, Jacques Émile Ruhlmann, Paris, 2009, p. 124