RENÉ PROU (1889-1947) POUR LA COMPAGNIE INTERNATIONALE DES WAGONS-LITS

IMPORTANT LUGGAGE CARRIER FOR THE GRAND-LUXE COMPARTMENTS OF THE BLUE TRAIN Chromed metal, rectangular shape, with openwork Art Deco geometric motifs, rectangles and wavelets. 1929. Height. 14 cm; Width. 182 cm; Depth. 42 cm. PROVENANCE. Voitures-lits type LX série 3496-3555 built by Entreprises Industrielles Charentaises in Aytré (Charente-Maritime). BIBLIOGRAPHY. . Luxury trains. Splendour, elegance & extravagance, ACC Art Books UK, 2023, reproduced pp. 142, 143. . Legendäre Luxuszüge - 24 stilvolle Traumreisen, Frederking & Thaler, 2023, reproduced pp. 142, 143. . La folie des trains de luxe, Éditions EPA - Hachette, Paris 2022, reproduced pp. 142, 143. . Treni fra arte, grafica e design, M.A.X. Museo, Chiasso, Switzerland, Skira, 2021, reproduced pp. 220 and 221. . Lucinda Gosling, Holidays and high society, the golden age of travel, 2019, p. 39. . Anne Bony, René Prou, entre Art Déco et modernisme, Éditions Norma, 2018, reproduced pp. 104, 105, 106 and 111. . Jean des Cars, Jean-Paul Caracalla, Le Train Bleu et les Grands Express de la Riviera, Denoël, 1988, reproduced p. 78. This type of luggage rack, designed by René Prou for the 1929 series of 90 LX-type sleeping cars, each with ten single compartments, was used mainly on the Calais-Méditerranée-Express (Train Bleu), but also on the Nord Express (Paris-Warsaw), the Paris Rome Express and the Paris Pyrénées Côte d'Argent Express.