No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection

No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection

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Charlotte Perriand

A Rare "Nuage" Bookshelf

Auction Closed

June 5, 10:36 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Charlotte Perriand

A Rare "Nuage" Bookshelf


circa 1950

oak, lacquered metal

the metal elements produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

9 ¾ x 74 ¾ x 9 ¼ in. (24.8 x 189.9 x 23.5 cm)

Commissioned from the artist for a retirement home, Société des Laminoirs, Hagondange, France

Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1996

Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Un Art d’Habiter, Paris, 2005, pp. 420-422 and 440 (for related models)

Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, Complete Works Volume 2, 1940-1955, Paris, 2015, pp. 411-412 and 414 (for related models)

Galerie Downtown – François Laffanour, Living with Charlotte Perriand, Paris, 2019, pp. 234-235 (for a related model), 346 (for a related model), and 347

Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022, pp. 7-8 (for the present lot illustrated)

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