Francis JOURDAIN (1876-1958). Dining room furniture,... Lot 94

Francis JOURDAIN (1876-1958). Dining room furniture, circa 1925, in rosewood veneer consisting of a rectangular-top dining room table with small square veneer on a straight-leg corner base, ten rosewood veneered chairs with straight, slightly sloping backs on sheathed-leg corner legs and low braces, woven cane seats and a rosewood veneered sideboard with quadrangular body opening with two solid side doors and six central drawers with recessed metal pulls. Scratches, missing veneer, stains on the top. Chairs: Height: 90 cm - Length: 45 cm - Depth: 45 cm. Sideboard: Height: 102 cm - Length: 197 cm - Depth: 50 cm. Bibliography: Denis Doria, Francis Jourdain Mobilier, Galerie Denis Doria, Paris, 2005, plate 119 for chair models. Collective work, Francis Jourdain un parcours moderne, Somogy Éditions d'Art, Paris, 2000, p. 70 for a drawing of the sideboard. Arlette Barré-Despond, Jourdain, Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1988, p. 268 for a drawing of the sideboard. Bibliography: Galerie Doria, Francis Jourdain Mobilier, Galerie Doria, Paris, 2005, similar model reproduced pl. 46. Provenance: Estate of Monsieur Louis Thirion, furniture in the private mansion built in 1923 by Gibert et Ogé, which has remained in the family ever since. Expert : Madame Amélie MARCILHAC