EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933) - Lot 121

EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933) Chambre commerce, light variant (new reference no. 162a) model designed and produced around 1928 in only 4 pieces for the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Games table in oak and oak veneer. The 4 Sabre-type legs each end in a gilded bronze spatula shoe. The entablature, with a wide, very slightly curved belt on all sides, receives a removable top upholstered in brown felt on one side and in oak veneer on the other. Hot-stamped RUHLMANN in baton letters below the belt. Height: 74 cm Length: 79 cm Width: 79 cm Damage and missing parts, notably veneer grafts and missing parts on the upper part of the belt and in the corners, scattered cracks on the legs, a veneer graft and missing parts on the top on the oak side, detachments, wear to the gilding of the hooves. Provenance: Salle des fêtes de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris, avenue de Friedland in the 8th arrondissement Our table from a series of four specially designed and built for this hall. Bibliography: - Collectif Ruhlmann ; un génie de l'Art déco - Editions du Musée des Années 30 / Somogy / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2001. Our table or one of the other three reproduced on page 49. - Florence Camard Ruhlmann Editions Monelle Hayot, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 2009. Our table or one of the other three reproduced on page 257, our table model entitled and referenced (Chambre commerce, légère, NR162a) on page 500 in the chapter Tables à jeux in the section Inventaire typologique des meubles de Ruhlmann. We would like to thank Mr. Emmanuel EYRAUD for his expertise on this lot.