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ÉMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933) Levard (ref. 1001AR and 1104NR), second version following the model presented at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1913 Round salon table with one crotch shelf and non-original black lacquer. The four square-section legs support the crotch top; each features a six-fluted capital and accommodates, at its reception, a non-original silver-plated metal sabot (square ring). The round top with wide fluted edges. The two trays on the reverse in non-original black lacquered oak veneer. Circa 1920. Used condition, black lacquer and non-original sabots (square rings). Hot-stamped RUHLMANN and rectangular RUHLMANN stamp under the crotch plate. Height: 46cm - Diameter: 69cm Archives: Musée des Années 30; Boulogne-Billancourt - The blue (diazography on paper) of our coffee table model, without fluting on the foot capitals, preserved under inventory number 1990.1.166; the photograph of our coffee table model, with eight fluting on the foot capitals, preserved under inventory number 2002.18.18.214. Bibliography and related works: - Les Arts de la Maison - Autumn-Winter 1923. Identical or similar model featured on a color project reproduced on plate XIV. - Art et Décoration - June 1926. Identical or similar model featured on a color design reproduced on an off-text plate. - Léon Moussinac - Intérieurs - 1 - Éditions Albert Lévy, Paris, circa 1924. Variant reproduced on plate 30. - Jean Badovici - Harmonies intérieures by Ruhlmann - Éditions Albert Morancé, Paris, 1924. Projects in black & white or color featuring our coffee table model or variants reproduced on plates 3, 9, 14 and 24. - Art et Décoration - January 1914. A Levard round coffee table, the first version featured in a photograph of Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann's stand at the 1913 Salon d'Automne, reproduced on an hors-texte plate. - Collective - Ruhlmann un génie de l'Art déco - Éditions Musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt, Somogy, Paris, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Quebec), 2002. Identical or similar model featured on various color projects reproduced on pages 222, 223 and 251. - Emmanuel Bréon - Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann; les archives - Architecture d'intérieur - Éditions Flammarion, Paris, 2004. Identical or similar model featuring a color project reproduced on pages 113. - Florence Camard - Ruhlmann - Les Éditions du Regard, Paris 1983. Identical or similar model shown on a color project reproduced on page 104. - Florence Camard - Ruhlmann - Édtions Monelle Hayot, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 2009. Identical or similar model featured on various color projects reproduced on pages 7, 39 and 406, on an early photograph (Levard first version, Salon d'Automne 1913) reproduced on page 71, a variant reproduced on page 80.
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ÉMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933) Levard (ref. 1001AR and 1104NR), second version following the model presented at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1913 Round salon table with one crotch shelf and non-original black lacquer. The four square-section legs support the crotch top; each features a six-fluted capital and accommodates, at its reception, a non-original silver-plated metal sabot (square ring). The round top with wide fluted edges. The two trays on the reverse in non-original black lacquered oak veneer. Circa 1920. Used condition, black lacquer and non-original sabots (square rings). Hot-stamped RUHLMANN and rectangular RUHLMANN stamp under the crotch plate. Height: 46cm - Diameter: 69cm Archives: Musée des Années 30; Boulogne-Billancourt - The blue (diazography on paper) of our coffee table model, without fluting on the foot capitals, preserved under inventory number 1990.1.166; the photograph of our coffee table model, with eight fluting on the foot capitals, preserved under inventory number 2002.18.18.214. Bibliography and related works: - Les Arts de la Maison - Autumn-Winter 1923. Identical or similar model featured on a color project reproduced on plate XIV. - Art et Décoration - June 1926. Identical or similar model featured on a color design reproduced on an off-text plate. - Léon Moussinac - Intérieurs - 1 - Éditions Albert Lévy, Paris, circa 1924. Variant reproduced on plate 30. - Jean Badovici - Harmonies intérieures by Ruhlmann - Éditions Albert Morancé, Paris, 1924. Projects in black & white or color featuring our coffee table model or variants reproduced on plates 3, 9, 14 and 24. - Art et Décoration - January 1914. A Levard round coffee table, the first version featured in a photograph of Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann's stand at the 1913 Salon d'Automne, reproduced on an hors-texte plate. - Collective - Ruhlmann un génie de l'Art déco - Éditions Musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt, Somogy, Paris, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Quebec), 2002. Identical or similar model featured on various color projects reproduced on pages 222, 223 and 251. - Emmanuel Bréon - Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann; les archives - Architecture d'intérieur - Éditions Flammarion, Paris, 2004. Identical or similar model featuring a color project reproduced on pages 113. - Florence Camard - Ruhlmann - Les Éditions du Regard, Paris 1983. Identical or similar model shown on a color project reproduced on page 104. - Florence Camard - Ruhlmann - Édtions Monelle Hayot, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 2009. Identical or similar model featured on various color projects reproduced on pages 7, 39 and 406, on an early photograph (Levard first version, Salon d'Automne 1913) reproduced on page 71, a variant reproduced on page 80.
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