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* Marcel COARD (1889-1974) - Lot 16

* Marcel COARD (1889-1974) Rosewood desk, c. 1927, with rectangular top entirely sheathed in reticulated python skin, encircled by a flat chrome-plated metal rod slightly protruding over the waistband, opening with two drawers. Belt and base decorated on all sides with mother-of-pearl plaques. Corner leg with tubular cutaway legs and telescopic lower section. Stamped with a parrot on the reverse H. 75 cm - W. 92 cm -- D. 60.5 cm Provenance : - Commissioned by the great-grandparents of the current owner, along with a liqueur cellar and an important mirror of the same composition Exhibition : - Marcel Coard, Galerie Marcilhac, Paris, 2012 Bibliography: - Amélie Marcilhac, Marcel Coard décorateur, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2012, our desk referenced and reproduced pp. 156-157 - Amélie Marcilhac, Le style Coard, L'Estampille Objet d'Art, January 2013, our desk reproduced p. 8 Marcel Coard was one of the most emblematic and confidential decorators of the 1920s, creating only "one-off" pieces, all of which were created from precious, contrasting materials. His very first client was the couturier Jacques Doucet, who in 1914 commissioned a Byzantine-style curved display case on a gold background, now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv.32126), before commissioning him to create a number of pieces for the "Studio", including an African armchair (inv.38156), display cases and his own desk (inv. 38149). The great novelty of this desk, which sets Marcel Coard apart from all his contemporaries, is the use of python skin on the top. Perfectly sheathed and slightly protruding at the corners, they are enclosed by grecques at the corners of the belt. A few years later, he drew inspiration from this work to create his own desk in Macassar ebony and python veneer, where this time the gracci on the belt are not in wood but in black patinated metal, responding to the dark veining of the python. The Greekques were abandoned, however, when in 1927 he created the rosewood desk we offer today, and the contrast was no longer between python and wood or python and blackened metal, but between python, chromed metal and the mother-of-pearl plates that adorn all the faces of the desk. Reminiscent of the mother-of-pearl used on some of Paul & Marcelle Cocteau's furniture, the idea here is to brighten up the desk and make it lighter. The contrast is strong, but it energizes the entire room, which despite its "simple" form becomes innovative through the skilful combination of all these materials. The clients of our office had also ordered a liquor cellar sheathed in python and a wall mirror.

Estimación:€150,000.00

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