20TH CENTURY DECORATIVE ARTS
INCLUDING LATE 19TH CENTURY DESIGN
 
Christie's London
 
15 May 2002
 
French text with summaries of each lot in English
 
105 pages featuring 115 lots illustrated in colour



A beautiful sale catalogue, featuring some stunning late nineteenth and twentieth-century decorative arts and design pieces alongside some fascinating lesser-known ones. Among the highlights are a parcel-gilt silver Japanesque flatware service by Tiffany and Co, a William Morris & Co embroidered portiere, a Donegal carpet by C.F.A Voysey ca 1902, several important Archibald Knox silver and enamel pieces for Liberty, including a silver shagreen and turquoise cigarette box, a cherrywood sideboard by the Muenchner Vereinigte Werkstatte, wonderful silver flatware set by Peter Behrens, Die Wiener Werkstatte 1903-1928 Modernes Kunstgewerbe und sein Weg volume, signed by Josef Hoffmann, Mathilde Floegl, Gudrun Baudisch among others, a leather covered desk and chair by Jacques Adnet, a mahogany veneered cabinet by Osvaldo Borsani, an oak daybed and ottoman by Hans Wegner for Getama and a Soucoupe aluminium floor lamp by Yonel Lebovici among many other standout lots.
 


Condition: Excellent used condition with only minimal signs of use. Inside it's very clean and bright with no inscriptions. There's a printout of the prices realised in the saleroom tucked inside.


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