Have it delivered hassle-freeBuyer protectionAll Designer items curated by WhoppahDownload the Whoppah App – get alerts & sell with ease.
Wrought Iron Display Case, Jacques Adnet for Hermès, 70’s – France
€4,180Bid from €3,990
Buy with confidence
Shop & pay safely with our Buyer ProtectionDesigner items curated by WhoppahWe only pay the seller once you have safely received the itemTrusted payment methods
About this seller
Product description
Wrought iron display case, Jacques Adnet for Hermès, 1970s – France
Designer: Jacques Adnet
Company: Hermès
Materials: Wrought iron and glass shelves
Period: 1970s
Country of origin: France
Provenance: French private collection
Good condition considering its age and use
Overall dimensions: 182 x 66 x 32 cm
A splendid display case from the 1970s, made of polychrome wrought iron and glass shelves, designed by the Frenchman Jacques Adnet. This artist was widely recognized for his designs for Hermès based on leather harnesses in a highly refined equestrian style. This large display case realistically simulates leather, thanks to the wrought ironwork and its subsequent polychrome finish in camel, with black and silver embellishments. It features five glass shelves, a perfect space on which to display books or sculptures. It is exhibited as a sculptural piece in itself.
About the furniture of Jacques Adnet (1901-1984)
Jacques Adnet, one of the most elegant and innovative French furniture designers of the 20th century, created a signature style that was simple and unadorned, yet both elegant and vigorous. He began his career at the height of the Art Deco era, and in the 1950s, in association with Hermès, he created chairs, lamps, desks, and other pieces that employed thin metal frames covered in stitched leather. With such furniture, Adnet brought a fashion sensibility to design and decoration that had not been seen since the 1920s with the great Parisian couturier and decorator Paul Poiret.
Adnet was born in a provincial town in Burgundy, where he studied design before moving, along with his twin brother, Jean, to Paris to study at the École des Arts Décoratifs. After graduating in the early 1920s, the brothers were hired to work in the decorative arts workshop of the Galeries Lafayette department store, under the direction of Maurice Dufrêne, an Art Deco master who developed a uniquely robust and opulent style. Both Adnets exhibited their work at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, the design fair from which the term Art Deco originates.
In 1928, Jacques Adnet took over La Compagnie des Arts Français, a decorative arts firm founded by Louis Süe and André Mare that created modern furniture with 18th-century style features. Adnet immediately steered the company in a different direction. Adnet developed a simple, sleek, and elegant aesthetic that incorporated industrial materials like metal and glass, along with exotic woods and finishes such as parchment and sharkskin. Adnet's furniture begs to be described in terms of personalities: charming bamboo-effect side tables, soft chrome lighting, urban club chairs. Its most striking pieces, elegant metal frames wrapped in Hermès leather, possess a character all their own: smooth, elegant, and self-assured, they inhabit a room with the same wit and grace as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve.
Shipping costs will be paid by the buyer according to the dimensions, weight, and destination. We will contact you to arrange shipping and agree on a quote. Shipping costs include professional, custom-made packaging and personalized delivery with tracking and warranty. Due to its dimensions and weight, we prefer to arrange shipping with the buyer. The shipping price is an estimate.
Specifications
ConditionGoodColorsBrownMaterialMetalNumber of items1BrandHermèsHeight182 cmWidth66 cmDepth32 cmSigns of usageScratches
Seller information
About this seller
Valladolid, SpainOn Whoppah since October 2024 • 1 sale