BORIS LACROIX (1902-1984)

A THREE PIECE SALON SUITE, CIRCA 1930

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BORIS LACROIX (1902-1984)
A THREE PIECE SALON SUITE, CIRCA 1930
comprising a settee and two club chairs, leather upholstered wood
settee: 25 7/8 in. (66 cm.) high, 90 1/8 in. (229 cm.) wide, 33 3/8 in. (84.8 cm.) deep, each club chair: 25 3/8 in. (64.3 cm.) high, 29½ in. (75 cm.) wide, 31½ in. (80 cm.) deep (3)

Provenance

Madeleine Vionnet, Paris;
Christie's, Paris, Les Collections du Château de Gourdon, 30 March 2011, lot 806.

Literature

B. Neville, Vionnet, 'Vogue,' London, 1 October 1967, pp. 136-137 for an photograph of the current lot in situ in the salon of Ms. Madeleine Vionnet;
B. Chatwin, Surviving in Style, 'The Sunday Times Magazine,' London, 4 March 1973, pp. 44-45 for a photograph of the current lot in situ.

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Lot Essay

The gifted young Boris Lacroix made a crucial career move when he joined the couture house of Madeleine Vionnet in 1924. His instinct as a designer was for simplicity in the elegant visual and technical resolution of practical problems. A fine opportunity arose to exercise his talents at the end of the decade with an invitation from Vionnet to design much of the furniture for her new Paris home, a 'hôtel particulier' in the Square Antoine-Arnauld. He conceived perfectly proportioned pieces of a structural clarity that paralleled the minimal geometrical forms and lines of the new Modernist architecture.

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