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Lot 342

LA MAISON DESNY (1927-1933)

A SILVERED-METAL VASE, CIRCA 1928

Closed8 December 2009

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LA MAISON DESNY (1927-1933)
A Silvered-Metal Vase, circa 1928
8¾ in. (22 cm.) high
stamped DESNY PARIS MADE IN FRANCE DÉPOSÉ

Specialist note

cf. A. Duncan and A. Friedman, "La Maison Desny," The Journal of Propaganda Arts, vol. 9, Summer 1988, pp. 87 for an illustration of a vase of this design.

La Maison Desny was established by Rene Nauny and M. Desnet in Paris in 1927. They collaborated with architects Robert Mallet-Stevens, Jean-Michel Frank and others to create a progressive design studio of the most modern, avant-garde art works of it's day until the studio dissolved with the untimely death of M. Desnet in 1933.