Important Oak Bar Cabinet by Maxime Old

Important oak bar cabinet by Maxime Old with 6 doors Branded signature to reverse: “Maxime Old” France 1947 Provenance Galerie Plaisance, Paris Property from a Private New York Collection Literature Badetz, Yves, “Maxime Old: Architecte-Décorateur”, Paris: Éditions Norma, 2000, pp. 130-32 (for a discussion of the Marly commission), pp. 146-47 (the present lot illustrated) Yves Badetz, chief curator at the Orsay Museum, in charge of decorative arts, confesses that “The emotions you feel when looking at Maxime Old’s creations are intense. His thoughtful esthetics freely associates the values of the rational of Bauhaus with Ruhlmann's demand for perfection. His talent is to design the refined outlines anticipating the third millennium." Fourcart, Bruno and Jean-Louis Gaillemin, “Les Decorateurs des années 40”, Paris: Éditions Norma, 1999, p. 164 (the present lot illustrated) Bony, Anne, “Furniture & Interiors of the 1940s”, Paris: Flammarion, 2003, p. 71 (the present lot illustrated)

width

72 in.

height

60 in.

depth

19 in.

Circa 1947