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| Jacques Emile Ruhlmann (1878-1933). | Louis Sue (1875-1968) & André Mare (1885-1932) | Louis Sue (1875-1968) & André Mare (1885-1932) |
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| Sant' Elia Chair, Giuseppe Terragni, 1933 | A Maurice Dufrene armchair, mahogany, 1925. | Designed by louis Herman De KoninckGobert, Bruxelles, 1923 |
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| An armchair designed by Luigi Vietti in 1936 | An armchair fom 1936 | A beautiful armchair in Macassar eboby from the 30's. |
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| 1940 | An armchair in beech from the 40's | An André Arbus (1903-1969) armchair |
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
1920-1960 armchairs
Monday, June 29, 2009
Edouard Benedictus, a true Renaissance man
Recently I attended a small local auction and I fell upon one of the beautiful Edouard Benedictus book :" Nouvelles Variations" (1925). What good fortune!!! I love this artist. Edouard Benedictus was a multi-talented Renaissance man, at the same time a writer, a painter, a textile designer, a book binder and a chemist.
He created wonderful and colorful albums of textile and wallpaper designs in the Art Deco style . His books include "Variations," 1924, "Nouvelles Variations," 1925,and "Relais," 1930.
He was a friend of the French composer Maurice Ravel; both of them joined an avant-garde group of artists, writers and musicians known as the "Apaches" ( with Maurice Delage, Leon-Paul Farges, Manuel de Falla, Igor Stravinsky...).
Edouard Benedictus is the man who discovered safety glass in 1909: he discovered the process of lamination by dropping a flask that had contained nitrocellulose in his laboratory. The shattered glass held together, instead of breaking apart ( REF: SAINT GOBAIN)
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