COMPAGNIE INTERNATIONALE DES WAGONS - RECTANGULAR CAR COMPARTMENT BEDS - TYPE S FIRST CLASS BEDS Wood veneered, decorated in the center with a polychrome marquetry of flowers and leaves in an octagonal reserve.
1926.
On the reverse, the stencilled number of the sleeper's origin: 2965 and painted inscription: 6 or G.
83.5 x 49.2 cm.
Later framed with a Sapelli wood rod.
This marquetry, designed by René Prou, decorated certain S-type sleeper cars, series 2943-2967, used on the Orient-Express, Calais-Méditerranée-Express (Train Bleu), Paris Rome Express and other CIWL prestige trains during the 1920s-1930s.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
. Anne Bony, René Prou, entre Art Déco et modernisme, Éditions Norma, 2018.
. Treni fra arte, grafica e design, exhibition catalog M.A.X. Museo, Chiasso, Switzerland, Skira, 2021 pp. 218.
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