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THE MAGAZINE UPCOMING AUCTIONS
42 GAZETTE DROUOT INTERNATIONAL I N° 25
From Perriand to Arad 21 May
At 8.00 pm, the auction house Artcurial is offering iconic works by designers
including Gino Sarfatti and Serge Mouille for lighting, Harry Bertoia for sculpture,
and Alvar Aalto and Georges Nakashima for furnishing objects. And just
as they should be, key figures in 20th century furniture will also be present,
like Jean Prouvé, Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand.
Perriand will be represented by a double-sided bookcase called "Maison du
Mexique" designed in 1952, manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé and
expected to fetch around €70,000. For the same amount, you could go for
the sculptural chaise longue "After Spring" by Ron Arad (1992), whose mirrorfinish
steel emphasises the pure curves typical of the artist's style.
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Place of honour for Rateau 23 May
The famous interior designer Armand Albert Rateau
will be creating a buzz when Christie's disperses some
remarkable pieces of furniture designed in 1920-1921
for the bedroom, boudoir and bathroom for the
Duchess of Alba's Madrid apartments in the Palacio de
Liria. At the time, the set made for the bathroom –
reproduced by the artist for the 1925 International
Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts –
caused quite a stir. Today, a couch, a dressing table a
swan neck sofa, a pair of lamps and a low table with
birds are heading for the auction room, with prices
ranging from €200,000 to €2,000,000. Here we see the
bronze dressing table with its grey marble top
(€600,000/800,000), emblematic of the sophisticated,
poetic style Rateau developed after discovering the
frescoes of Pompeii and the bronze furniture in Naples
Museum. Another collection, Alain Braunstein's, will
provide a chance to buy pieces by Eugène Printz, Jan
and Joel Martel and Gustave Miklos, while the sale's
non-specialist section will be offering works by
Dunand, Ruhlmann, Royère, Prouvé and Lalanne.