Important Design

Important Design

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Property of a Distinguished Family Collection, New York and Palm Beach

Jean-Michel Frank

Pair of Console Tables

Auction Closed

June 7, 06:14 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Distinguished Family Collection, New York and Palm Beach

Jean-Michel Frank

Pair of Console Tables


circa 1938

produced by Comté, Buenos Aires, Argentina

patinated iron, original leather, oak

30¼ x 39⅜ x 10¾ in. (76.8 x 100 x 27.3 cm) each

Private Collection, New York, acquired directly from Comté, circa 1938
Thence by descent to the present owner
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, L'étrange Luxe du Rien, Paris, 2006, p. 314 (for a variant of the model)
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank: Un Décorateur dans le Paris des Années 30, Paris 2009, p. 90 (for a variant of the model)
Laure Verchère, Jean-Michel Frank, New York, 2018, pp. 19 and 138-139

This lot is offered together with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Jean-Michel Frank.