Object Description
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Louis Majorelle (1859-1926), an Art Nouveau carved walnut, inlaid and glazed salon cabinet, with stylised floral carved details to the crown with a central glazed cupboard with bevelled glass doors flanked by three shelves to each side with a lower central carved support fixed below a white marble area to a further carved frieze and Art Nouveau inlaid peacock style scroll details on Maple veneers behind with a waist shape back with carved leaf detail terminating in carved blooming florets, a lower display area with an almost conforming Maple inlaid back and standing on carved cabriole legs. Modelled on an almost identical suite he exhibited at the 1901 Paris Exposition.
See Duncan, Alastair ‘Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau Design’ London 1991, p. 111 for a contemporary photograph of a similar bedroom suite included in the Majorelle display at the Exposition Universale, Paris, 1900.
(Please note some of the images are a little dusty)
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