Louis MAJORELLE (1859 - 1926) & Louis JANIN (1891 - 1975 - Lot 367

Louis MAJORELLE (1859 - 1926) & Louis JANIN (1891 - 1975) Pelican" piece of furniture, designed in 1925, in solid mahogany, veneered with rosewood, mahogany and Macassar ebony inlaid with mother-of-pearl and inlaid with different woods, with a rounded quadrangular body supported on the front by two large pelicans carved on either side, resting on a slightly stepped quadrangular base and a solid base, case opening with two full doors on either side of a central flap revealing an interior with nine small drawers and four compartments, decorated on the front with palm leaves and bronze pulls for the small drawers, two original bronze keys with foliage decoration. Stamped with a shell H. 146 cm - W. 200 cm - D. 45.5 cm AM Small accidents, restorations, rubbing, stains, sunstains and scratches on the top, wear to the veneer and missing veneer on the flap; one screw to be refixed. History: model exhibited on Louis Majorelle's stand at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925, class 7, group II; it served as Majorelle's advertising model from November 1925. Bibliography: Art & Industrie. Paris, November 1925. Advertisement at the beginning of the magazine reproducing our model; Les Echos des Industries d'Art. June 1926. Advertisement at the end of the magazine reproducing our model; BOUVIER, Roselyne. Majorelle, Une aventure moderne. Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts & Éditions Serpenoise, 1991. Model referenced and reproduced p. 214; DUNCAN, Alastair. Louis Majorelle Master of the Art Nouveau design. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. Similar model referenced n°141 and reproduced p. 207; Collectif, Majorelle, un art de vivre moderne. Catalog of the exhibition held at Galeries Poirel from May 2 to August 30, 2009. Paris: Éditions Nicolas Chaudun & Ville de Nancy, 2009. Model referenced under no. 48 and reproduced on pp. 60-61 and 186.