Sanyas Desk; Art Deco, France, 1940s. Rosewood... Lot 27

Sanyas Desk; Art Deco, France, 1940s. Rosewood veneer. Chrome-plated metal handles. Provenance: private collection conceived from the 1970s between London and Madrid. Measurements: 77 x 84 x 150 cm. Desk from the 1940s which stands on four legs, whose design lightens the volumetry of the piece itself. The front has two drawers on each side with chromed metal handles. The top has a design based on the expressiveness of the grain itself. Art Deco developed from the 1920s onwards, although it enjoyed a long life thanks to the popularity of the cinema, which spread its aesthetic until the 1940s, covering almost the entire inter-war period. The Déco aesthetic is, in a sense, an amalgam of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century and, unlike Art Nouveau, it was influenced by the early avant-garde, notably Constructivism, Cubism, Futurism and even Bauhaus rationalism. However, it is fundamentally classical art, although it approaches classicism from a new point of view, based on archaeology and elementary aesthetic principles. Art Deco forms are idealised, balanced and proportioned, but at the same time synthetic and essential, far removed from the meticulous description of reality of the late 19th century.