LOT DETAILS

Materials:

each Hungarian oak, leather

Size Notes:

each

Exhibited:

Madrid, Palacio Real de El Pardo, Paul Hankar, 1993 (one chair). Eindhoven, Piet Hein Eek, Roberto Polo's Choice, 20 October, 2012 - 20 January, 2013 (one chair). Weimar, Neues Museum, Leidenschaft, Funktion und Schönheit: Henry van de Velde und sein Beitrag zur europäischen Moderne, 24 March - 23 June, 2013 (one chair)

Literature:

Yvonne Brunhammer, Art Nouveau Belgium/France, exh. cat., Houston, 26 March - 27 June 1976, Chicago, 28 August - 31 October 1976, Houston, 1976, pp. 242-243, cat. no. 374 for a chair with relatable leather upholstery. Pierre & François Loze, Belgium Art Nouveau: From Victor Horta to Antoine Pompe, Gent, 1991, pp. 105, 106 for relatable examples with woven leather. Françoise Dierkens-Aubry, Jos Vandenbreeden, Art Nouveau in Belgium: Architecture & Interior Design, Gent, 1991, pp. 180, 181 as above. Werner Adriaenssens et al, Roberto Polo: The Eye, London, 2011, p. 317, illustrated. Thomas Föhl, Leidenschaft, Funktion und Schönheit: Henry van de Velde und sein Beitrag zur europäischen Moderne, exh. cat., 24 March - 23 June 2013, Weimar, 2013, p. 59, cat. no. 48, illustrated, p. 435. Eric Jansen, "Roberto Polo: L'Œil de L'Expert", L'Eventail, no. 125, April, 2012, p. 111, illustrated. Eric Jansen, Nouveaux Cabinets d'Amateurs, Paris, 2015, pp. 229, 231, illustrated

Provenance:

Private collection, Brussels. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004