Artists and Designers Information - Art Deco Treasures

Raymond Subes

artdecotreasuresadmin — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:42:42 +0000

Raymond Subes was a French metalworker who was born in 1891. He studied at the Ecole Boule and Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. He made some excellent items during the Art Deco era including lamps and screens.

Below are some examples and price guides to Art Deco antiques made by Raymond Subes including a floor lamp and some console tables.

RAYMOND SUBES (1891-1970)
Floor Lamp circa 1935
wrought iron, martelé finish, with alabaster shade height 67in (170cm); diameter of shade 24in (61cm)

Sold for US$8,925 inc. premium at Bonhams in 2022

RAYMOND SUBES (1893-1970), FOR EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
A Bench, circa 1931
patinated wrought-iron, leather upholstery
19 in. (48.3 cm.) high, 79 in. (200.7 cm.) wide, 23 5/8 in. (60 cm.) deep

Sold for USD 25,000 at Christie’s in 2018

Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Raymond Subes

Pair of Console Tables circa 1929 each impressed RUHLMANN R. SUBES patinated iron, marble

35 1/2 x 43 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (90.2 x 110.5 x 54.6 cm) each

Sold for 21,420 USD at Sotheby’s in 2022

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Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet

artdecotreasuresadmin — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:56:39 +0000

Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet (1880–1950) was a French sculptor of Belgian birth who worked during the early-to-mid 20th century. The subject matter of her best known work was primarily Arab female dancers. The majority of her career output in sculpture can be classified as being of the Art Deco style.

Colinet was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon des Artistes Francais and Salon des Independents art exhibitions in Paris. Her sculptures, most of which depicted beautifully figured, energized, and dramatic female forms, were exhibited posthumously at the Paris Salon for nearly 30 years. Reference: Wikipedia

Below are some examples, information and price guides of Art Deco figures by Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet including her maker’s mark and her Dancer of the Daggers sculpture.

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Figural Lamps

artdecotreasuresadmin — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:54:44 +0000

Figural lamps from the Art Deco era are very desirable. Many have the stylized female shapes popular of the time and sculptors such as Josef Lorenzl and Bergman had their bronze figures made into lamps.

Below are some examples and price guides of Art Deco figural lamps including a rare harlequin lamp by Marcel-Andre Bouraine and a patinated metal table lamp.

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Lalique Glass Mascots

artdecotreasuresadmin — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 08:32:20 +0000

Lalique glass mascots are extremely beautiful. The subject matters range from animals to mythical creatures such as nymphs and mermaids. The company of Lalique still make mascots today and in 1994 Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited commissioned Lalique to produce a 200-piece limited edition “Spirit of Ecstasy” to commemorate the luxury motor company’s 90th anniversary.

Below are some examples and price guides of Lalique glass mascots including a Libellule or dragonfly mascot and a mermaid or Sirene mascot.

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Lalique Dishes

artdecotreasuresadmin — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:15:54 +0000

Lalique dishes are innovative display designs by Rene Lalique to perfection. The iridescent glass brings his designs to life which can be seen in the “Martigues” dish and the “Roscoff” dish below. The light shows through the fish giving an organic and realistic effect.

Below are some examples and price guides of some Art Deco Lalique dishes including a blue opalescent Poissons dish and a Coquilles dish.

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Lipstick Holders

artdecotreasuresadmin — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 08:25:36 +0000

Lipstick holders started to gain popularity around 1915 and by the Art Deco era were extremely popular with the “Flappers”. They often form part of a set with compacts.

Below are some examples and price guides of Art Deco lipstick holders including a French holder by Cartier and a lipstick combined with a watch.

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Janesich

artdecotreasuresadmin — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:34:40 +0000

Janesich was a fine jewelry house founded in 1835 by Leopoldo Janesich. After World War I, they became decidedly Art Deco, in keeping with the great fashion of the 1920s and ‘30s. Reference: Beladora.

The company was renown for it’s jewelry but it also made other items such as lorgnettes and cigarette holders.

Below are some examples and price guides of their Art Deco jewelry including a diamond and onyx bracelet and an example of their maker’s mark.

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Boucheron

artdecotreasuresadmin — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:56:04 +0000

The House of Boucheron is a French family dynasty founded by Frederic Boucheron in 1858, with the opening of his first store in the Galerie de Valois, at Palais-Royal, during the heyday of the Second French Empire. He created his atelier in 1866 and a year later won the Gold Medal during the Exposition Universelle (1867).

Boucheron also makes watches, and jewelry, and licenses its marque for perfumes. The watch and jewelry making segments have existed for over 150 years. Reference: Wikipedia

Below are some examples and price guides of items retailed or made by Boucheron including an example of their maker’s mark and an Art Deco jade and emerald case.

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Cartier

artdecotreasuresadmin — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:57:14 +0000

Cartier was probably most renown for their jewelry but they also made other items such as clocks and dressing table sets.

By the turn of the 20th century, Cartier was a well-established jewellery house. Advances in technology permitted a revolutionary change of style. Platinum, the new metal, gave lightness and flexibility, providing a perfect medium for the favored bows and wreaths, giving way to a new vernacular in jewellery. Jewels of the Art Deco era were characterised by bold geometric patterns, colour, texture and rich exoticism infused from Persian, Indian, Oriental, Russian and Egyptian influences. Reference: Sotheby’s

Below are some examples and price guides of work by Cartier including an Art Deco clock and an example of Cartier’s makers mark.

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Edgar Brandt

artdecotreasuresadmin — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:41:15 +0000

Edgar Brandt was a French iron worker born in 1880. He was a prolific weapons designer and head of a company that designed 60mm, 81mm and 120mm mortars that were very widely copied throughout and subsequent to World War II. He also invented discarding-sabot artillery shells, and contributed substantially through his development of HEAT rifle grenades to the development of effective HEAT-warhead weapons for infantry anti-tank use. Reference: Wikipedia

Below are some examples and price guides of work by Edgar Brandt including a chandelier and a pair of silvered bronze cobra figural andirons.

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Walter Gilbert

artdecotreasuresadmin — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:48:51 +0000

Walter Gilbert was born in 1871. He was an English sculptor who studied at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art and the National Art Training School, now the Royal College of Art. He was also the founder of the Bromsgrove Guild in Birmingham in 1894 with a view to designing decorative ironwork. The Guild was also famously responsible for the altarpiece for Liverpool Cathedral and the bronze doors of Herbert Baker’s rebuilt Bank of England. Reference: Wikipedia and Sotheby’s.

He was renown for his architectural panels including those for the Bank of England, Liverpool Cathedral and the Derry and Toms Department Store in London. He died in 1946.

Below are some examples and price guides of work by Walter Gilbert including an elevator screen from the Derry and Toms Department Store and a plaque depicting Saint George and the Dragon

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Lucile Sévin Glass Mascots

artdecotreasuresadmin — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:18:39 +0000

Lucille Sévin was a sculptor and pupil of the sculptor François-Léon Sicard (1862-1934). She was artistically active from 1920 to 1940. She made numerous chryselephantine sculptures in the Art Deco style , using materials such as bronze (often silvered or gilded) and ivory. Her work was artfully implemented and distributed by Éditeur d’art Edmond Etling .

Lucile Sévin also worked with glass , ceramics and porcelain . Her sculptures of dancers made of milky frosted, iridescent glass such as Isadora from 1925 were made for Etling in a glassworks in Choisy-le-Roi . Her glassworks were representative of the “Etling style”; For a time Sévin was art director of the company. Her husband, the sculptor Jean Théodore Delabassé, also worked for Etling.

Etling was a retail shop in Paris during the 1920’s and 30’s and had a major effect on the style of the time and commissioned a large number of statuettes and vessels in opalescent pressed glass including those by Lucile Sévin.

Below are some examples and price guides of Lucille Sevin’s glass mascots including an Isadora mascot and lady with a lamb.

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