ÉMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879 – 1933)
An exceptional bedside table, model “d’Estainville”, in black lacquer with red leather top. The oval-section body bulged out in its narrow part, rises above a roughly cubic, set back base which extends into a pad plinth with inverted beading. The overhanging, aeroplane-wing streamlined top is of rectangular shape and serrated at body level; it is covered with leather. Three strut-supported drawers open with turned silvered bronze on one of the curved sides.
Reference number 1055NR in the Ruhlmann Archives, Mus.e des Ann.es 30, Boulogne Billancourt.
Stamped 'Ruhlmann'.
Dimensions: H 62 cm x W 69 cm x D 56 cm - 24,4 in x 27,2 in x 22 in.
Period: Circa 1932
Material: Black lacquer /red leather
Provenance: Collection of Madame Sierra, Acquired from the above
Bibliography: Bernard Champigneulle, ‘L’Exposition r.trospective de J.-E. Ruhlmann’, Mobilier et D.coration, Paris, December 1934, p. 454;
Alain Lesieutre, ‘The Spirit and Splendor of Art Deco’, New Jersey, 1978, p. 130;
Florence Camard, ‘Ruhlmann’, Paris, 1983, p. 281;
Florence Camard, ‘Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann’, Saint-R.my-en-l’Eau, 2009, p. 489;
Laurent Guelfucci, ‘.mile-Jacques Ruhlmann’, Galerie Guelfucci, Paris/Berlin, 2025, p. 172-173.
