ÉMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879 – 1933)
Chaise longue in Amboyna burl with ivorine details and ‘sabots’. This rare chaise longue is a part of a set commissioned in 1916, along with a rectangular cabinet known as 'État rectangulaire au vase fleuri' ( Rectangular cabinet with a flower vase). Only model known till today. Recently upholstered in a Prelle fabric designed by Ruhlmann from the Prelle Manufacture archives.
Stamped 'Ruhlmann'.
Dimensions: H 46 cm x W 210 cm x D 80 cm - H 18.1 × W 82.7 × D 31.5 in.
Period: Circa 1916
Material: Amboyna Burl, ivorine and silk mixed Prelle fabric
Provenance: 6 March 1983 Sothebys Parke Bernet Monaco S. A: Arts Decoratifs Styles 1900 et 1925, lot. 133
Bibliography: ‘ Ruhlmann, un génie de l’Art Déco’, exh. cat., musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt, 15 November 2001 – 17 March 2002 and musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 2003, pp. 60, 220 for drawings illustrating the model from the Album
‘Réceptions 4’ and pp. 284 and 308 for a drawing of the model for a project of the bedroom of Mr. Simon;
Emmanuel Bréon, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Interior Design, Paris, 2004, p. 72 for drawing of the model;
Laurent Guelfucci, ‘Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann’, Galerie Guelfucci, Paris/Berlin, 2025, p. 20-23.