Andre Sornay (1902-2000) Dining Suite

A most unusual dining suite including an expanding table, side board and eight chairs. Stained Oak with chrome studs and decorated with chrome pins throughout. Style known as "Style Sornay" in Lyon, France. Leather upholstery.
Private Lyon collection - c1925

Sideboard: 105.5 cms height x 227cms width x 48cms depth.
Chairs: 85cms height x 51cms width x 47cms depth.
Table: 75cms height x 180cms width x 99.5cms depth. Two extra leaves 63cms x 99.5cms
Each piece stamped.

Lit. Pierre Kjellberg - Le Mobilier Duxxe Siecle Page 604
This suite was made in Lyon c1938 and was shown at the autumn exhibition of Lyon and as 'Annexe' to the exposition of the group 'Temoignage'. Andre Sornay's works are regarded as being among the very finest throughout the French Art Deco period.

Alfred Porteneuve (1896-1949) Sideboard

Enfilade en chene et placage de palissandre. Montants avant galbes munis a la base de sabots chromes, volutes sur les parties frontales.

Plateau galbe en facade borde d'un jonc chrome, ceinture basse galbee. La facade galbee presente une succession de quatre tiroirs au centre entoures de joncs en chrome, prises en chrome. Les deux portes laterales sont ornees de filets de bois agrementes de croisillons.

Interieur armenage de nombreux tiroirs et etageres coulissantes - Stamped on reverse
90.5cms height x 209cms length x 52cms depth

Jensen (11th March 1900- ) (Attributed to)

An outstanding black laquered desk or dressing table.

75cms height x 180cms width x 54cms depth

Louis Sognot - (1892-1970) Chromed Tubular Metal Stools

A set of five chromed tubular metal stools designed by Louis Sognot c1930, each with red leatherette~

79cms height

Georges DeFeure (Attributed to) 1826-1928 Gilt Wood Mirror

A fine French Gilt Wood Mirror c1890
201cms height x 121.3cms width

Private New York Collection

Gueridon Burl Amboyna and Bronze Gueridon

A Burl Amboyna and Bronze Gueridon with glass top made in France c1925.
75cms height x 58.4cms Diameter

Private Swiss Collection

Dominique Glass Console Table

Gueridon with glass top formed in France c1922.
Glass top console table with Palissandre support.

Plateau 140cms width x 46cms depth
Lit. See Felix Marcilhac - L'Amateur.

Jean Buckhalter(1895-1984) Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) Rare Chair

A very rare chair made in Paris 1924 1/1

99cms height x 65cms width x 44cms depth

A fine and rare French Commode

Designed by Charlotte Chauchet Guilleré for Primavera, Various African woods, ebony and ivory

88 cms height x 82 cms width x 34 cms depth

Circa 1920

Born in Charleville (Ardennes) in 1878, Charlotte Chauchet was trained as an artist, exhibiting at the first salon of the Société des Artistes Décorateurs, organised in 1904 by René Guilleré, whom she married shortly after. In 1913, her husband, an accomplished art administrator and entrepreneur, established the Primavera atelier and appointed his wife it's artistic director.

It is difficult to determine the division between Chauchet - Guilleré's two roles, as decorator and administrator. Certainly the team of designers under her supervision was as talented as that of her foremost competitors, Le Studium Louvre, Pomone, and La Maîtrise. Sognot, alone, ensured that the studio remain the vanguard of modern taste and materials. As a decorator, Chauchet - Guilleré maintained a measure of artistic independence by exhibiting under her own name at the Salons. Her exhibits included a range of bedroom and dining-room ensembles, the pieces manufactured by Primavera. The Salon catalogues listed two addresses: 13 rue Eugénie-Girard, Vincennes, and 26 rue Norrins.

At the 1925 Exposition, Chauchet - Guilleré supervised the Primavera gallery exhibit, contributing a bedroom of her own on the second floor. The latter was unexceptional; only the bed's checkerboard coverlet drew attention to an otherwise plain room. Elsewhere at the Exposition she took stand 68 on the Esplanade des Invalides to display a dining room.

Most of her interiors appear undistinguished today, even a trifle cluttered. But a study exhibited at the 1922 Salon d'Automne proved particularly successful, its furniture designed en série with neatly fluted panelling. The critics were enthusiastic, praising the room's homogeneity and her choice of woods: palisander and stained sycamore. The following year at the exhibition of L'Art Urbain et le Mobilier, her ministerial office, purchased directly by the State, evoked an impression of gravity and comfort without intimacy. A year earlier Gaston Varenne provided the following comments in Art et décoration on the furniture in a young girls' bedroom at the Salon d'Automne: "The shapes are perhaps a little fragile, a bit girlish, but I can picture clearly the young girl who would live in this setting: she would be a Nietzschean."

Chauchet - Guilleré continued as director of Primavera after her husband died in 1931 and was succeeded in 1939 by Colette Guéden. She lived in retirement until her death in 1964.

An outstanding Art Deco desk made in Thuya Wood with twin pedestals

Original bronze handles.

This desk was made as a private commission and it is interesting to note the clever variation of veneer design to the front of the desk. Both sides of the desk relate to the 'purest' school of cabinet making in the early years of Art Deco.
The style and the use of the very expensive veneers are in the manner of Jacques Adnet - born in Chatillion-Coligny (1900-1984).

From a private collection in Zurich, Switzerland. Sold through Christies in London 1999.
We understand that Mitofsky Antiques are only the second owners of this desk, hence the original colour and condition.

80cms height x 160cms width x 90cms depth
Paris Circa 1920

Octagonal Centre Table

A fine octagonal centre table with shagreen top and base Macassar pod with inlay

74cms height x 99cms diameter
Paris Circa 1940

Maurice Rynck Armoire or bookcase

A rosewood with inlay armoire or bookcase Wonderful colour - original keys

176cms height x 50cms depth
Paris Circa 1935

Maxime Old (1910-1991) Suite of Chairs

Suite of six open arm chairs in sycamore and ebonised decoration. Upholstered in cream/yellow silk.
Can be sold in pairs

Paris Circa 1940

French Art Deco Console Table

Wrought iron console table. Black with white flecked marble top and base.

94cms height x 105cms width x 30cms depth
Circa 1920

Glasgow School of Art Student Easel

The 'A-Shaped' frame, in unpolished pine, pierce with adjustment holes for a pair of metal securing pins, chained to a small undershelf. The tall central slide with picture rests on an H-shaped trestle base with castors.

79cms width x 203cms height (lowered) x 69cms depth.

Arman (Armand Fernandez, dit) (1928 - 2005)

A fine low table plexiglass blue and black.
Signed and numbered 27M04

100cms width x 125cms depth x 50cms height