Giuseppe Pagano et Gino Levi Montalcini

lacquered wood

Collection of Karl Lagerfeld, Paris
Maîtres Godeau, Solanet and Audap, Collection Karl Lagerfeld, Paris, November 21, 1975, lot 121
Private collection, France
Private collection, Paris

Domus, June 1930, special edition on the Palazzo Gualino
Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino, Il Mobile déco italiano, Bari, 1988, p. 192

Good overall condition. The black lacquer presents with some light superficial scratches and a few more significant scratches. Some tiny and very small chips of lacquer scattered and mostly concentrated along the edges, most of them not visually distractive. On the lower back of one chair, a chip of lacquer of approximately 1x1 cm which has been previously re-finished to be less visually distractive. All consistent with age and use.
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These armchairs were made for the Palazzo Gualino in Turin, an important building for the early Italian rationalist architecture.