Printz and Dunand On the Same Page

Published on 11 September 2020, by Agathe Albi-Gervy

Auction on 03 October 2020 - 15:00 (CEST) - 26, rue Jean-Lebas - 13200 Arles

This lacquered wooden desk by the famous Art Deco team Eugène Printz and Jean Dunand is one of the outstanding pieces from the same interior that will soon be dispersed in Arles, Provence.

Eugène Printz (1889-1948) and Jean Dunand (1877-1942), flat desk in chamois-red lacquered... Printz and Dunand On the Same Page

Eugène Printz (1889-1948) and Jean Dunand (1877-1942), flat desk in chamois-red lacquered wood, c. 1931, 73.5 x 196 x 67.5 cm.
Estimate: €200,000/300,000

Although designed around 1931, this curved, three-drawer desk has an 18th-century look about it. The bronzes’ are inventive shapes and the deep red lacquer applied by Jean Dunand set off its structural classicism. Eugène Printz’s perfect knowledge of furniture from past centuries came from…

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