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Sun 23 Jun

Probably Indo-Portuguese, 19th century. Carved teak and bronze ceremonial armchair. The front base emerges from open conches and rests on stylized lotus flowers in bronze, with waves and scrolls evoking the marine world, continuing into the belt centered on a bearded mascaron flanked by faithful dogs, and continuing into the sides of the armchair, centered on the same motif. The connecting dice are adorned with eagles in high relief. The armrest supports feature busts of armed men with breastplates adorned with a bearded sun, wearing cuffs in their braided headdresses adorned with feathers ending in the grimacing rostrum of fantastical animals. The lower part of the wide back supports are carved with scallop shells and horns of plenty, continuing as a mermaid's tail upwards, the latter bearing at the top two winged angels wearing laurel wreaths and the Catholic cross on their breastplates. They are protected by niches topped with flames. The central part is deeply carved with a male divinity overhanging two rich horns of plenty from which emerge shells including cowries and carved conch shells, surmounted in stylized clouds by two female figures probably representing hunting and fishing, surrounding a winged victory carved in very high relief at the limit of the round relief, surrounded by winged horses. Upholstered in two-tone green velvet with stylized floral motifs. Height: 174 cm. Length 85 cm. Depth: 70 cm. Some wear to the armrests. Our armchair presents an ornamental, decorative and religious synchretism that is out of the ordinary, but can be compared with Indo-Portuguese works.

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Sun 23 Jun

Jose Luis Perez Ortega (1949) Design for ARTESPAÑA 2003. Manufacturer ArtesMoble. Pair of "Frailero Armchair" chairs with stainless steel frame and violin scroll armrests in carved, burgundy-stained wood. Bone-colored leather upholstery. Dimensions 78 x 54 x 53 cm "In 1987, the national crafts company Artespaña created the AZIMUT collection with the aim of incorporating design into the company's artisan spirit, asking renowned architects and designers of the day such as Rafael Moneo, Oscar Tusquets, Pedro Miralles and José Luis Pérez Ortega, among others, to design a piece of furniture for the company's new image. José Luis Pérez Ortega graduated in industrial design from Milan's Scuola Politecnica di Design, with Bruno Munari and Attilio Marcolli as his teachers. He collaborated with architect Gianfranco Frattini in his Milan studio and, back in Spain, founded the "Escuela de Diseño Experimental" in Madrid with architect Miguel Durán-Lóriga and other teachers. When Artespaña proposed to design a product with the company's spirit and philosophy. After a rigorous study of historic Spanish furniture, he presented a design for the "New Friar Armchair". "Once upon a time there was a country called Spain, where there were kings who sat on austere armchairs above which was a great empire, seas and trade. Similar in volume to the historic 16th-century convent armchair, José Luis Pérez Ortega's "New Frailero Armchair" is of great formal simplicity and linear character, with a stainless steel frame, leather upholstery and wooden armrests. Spanish walnut hand-carved in the shape of a violin neck scroll, provoking a tactile connection with the user, and evoking its historical past. Present at Barcelona's Design Museum since 1994, the original piece created by ArtesMoble was incorporated into the permanent collection of Madrid's National Museum of Decorative Arts in 2020 to become part of Spanish design history. We are grateful for ArtesMoble's help in cataloguing the piece.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR