Large transat armchair, model by Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945) edited by Pierre Dariel, circa 1926.
In yellow-painted wood, side jambs with openwork squares, armrests with overhanging cuff, back and seat in beige voile fabric.
Biography
Robert Mallet-Stevens was a French architect and designer, born on March 24, 1886 in Paris, where he died on February 8, 1945. He was part of the modern movement, a famous film set designer in the 1920s for Marcel L’Herbier and Jean Renoir, and director of the Lille School of Fine Arts.
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Story
Pierre Dariel (1889-1953), a manufacturer of outdoor furniture, was based in Paris, on rue de Penthièvre. He was the publisher of Robert Mallet-Stevens’s first furniture designs, after the latter had abandoned his career as a cinema designer to devote himself to furniture design.