High table 1935, by Adolphe Chanaux and Jean-Michel Frank, Editions Ecart International
France, circa 2000
Table ronde en placage de chêne sur bois massif, by Adolphe Chanaux and Jean-Michel Frank, Guerlin, Editions Ecart International
France, circa 1990
Biography
Adolphe Chanaux, France (1887-1965)
Adolphe Chanaux, born June 5, 1887 in Paris, is a French decorator and cabinetmaker by training.
Trained with Groult, he was recognized by his peers as particularly talented and set up on his own in 1920. He enjoyed playing with new materials, which he helped to bring up to date: shagreen, straw, etc.
He is best known for having worked with Jean Michel Frank. They collaborated until the start of the war. They share the same taste for simplicity and simplicity, interiors and furniture for Parisians trendy by what we today call art deco. If he created furniture for Jean-Michel Frank, he also created furniture alone. After the death of his friend in the United States, in 1941, he was finally associated with the company Chanaux et Cie, and became artistic director of the Guerlain house, where he had designed the decor and furniture of the Parisian boutique with Jean- Michel Frank in the mid-1930s.
Adolphe Chanaux died in Paris on August 28, 1965.
To find out more, read this Wikipedia link (Français).