Design
Design
Property from The Stuart Cary Welch Collection
Jules Leleu
Daybed
Lot Closed
October 19, 04:07 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from The Stuart Cary Welch Collection
Jules Leleu
Daybed
circa 1934-1936
produced by Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
for the sanatorium Martel de Janville, Assy, France
lacquered metal, oak, silvered metal, fabric upholstery
37 x 79 1/2 x 52 3/8 in. (94 x 133 x 201.9 cm)
Emmanuel Bréon and Michèle LeFrancois, Le Musée des Années 30, Paris, 1998, p. 111
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Oeuvre complète, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, pp. 24 and 155
Jean Prouvé, exh. cat., Galerie Patrick Seguin Paris, Paris, 2007, p. 354
Leleu: 50 ans de mobilier et de décoration, 1920-1970, exh. cat., Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André-Diligent, Paris, 2007, pp. 96 and 98-99
Françoise Siriex, Leleu: Décorateurs Ensembliers, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 2007, p. 178
Françoise Siriex, The House of Leleu: Classic French Style for a Modern World 1920-1973, New York, 2008, p. 178 (for a discussion of the furniture designed for the sanatorium Martel de Janville)