Mechanical Desk
Closed: 36 1/2 × 58 1/4 × 28 × 3/4 inches (92.71 × 147.96 × 71.12 × 1.91 cm)
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Pierre-Yves Le Diberder, Paris, by 1982-June 13, 2018 [1];
Purchased at his sale, Tableaux, mobilier & objets d’art, Pierre Bergé & associés, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, June 13, 2018, lot 324, by Cole Myers, Myers & Monroe, Kansas City, MO, 2018-2022 [2].
NOTES:
[1] As described in a 2016 auction catalogue (see end of note), Pierre-Yves Le Diberder began decorating his apartment on the avenue Foch in 1973. With decorator Jean-Paul Faye, he acquired objects “on the left bank of the Seine or at the flea market. Weekends were dedicated to striding along galleries on Saturdays, at the Clignancourt flea market on Sundays, and to flip keenly through auction catalogues.” This desk appears in a photograph of Le Diberder’s apartment in Jean-Louis Gaillemin, “French Mélange: Recreating the Sumptuous Appeal of a Bygone Era,” Architectural Digest (September 1982), 98. It was offered for sale at Collection Pierre-Yves Le Diberder, Pierre Bergé & associés en association avec Christie’s, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, October 14, 2016, lot 54, but failed to sell.
[2] The desk was exported from France to the United States by Myers in September 2018, copy of bill of lading in NAMA curatorial file.
(on this desk):
Charles Dupin. Rapport du jury central sur les produits de l’industrie française en 1834 (Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1836): III, 410–411.
Stéphane Flachat. L’Industrie. Recueil de traités élémentaires due l’Industrie française et etrangère (Paris: L. Tenre & H. Dupuy, 1834): 88.
Jean-Louis Gaillemin. “French Mélange: Recreating the Sumptuous Appeal of a Bygone Era.” Architectural Digest 39, no. 9 (September 1982): 96–101 (ill.)
Anne Foster. “Un bureau à surprises multiples.” La Gazette Drouot (23 September 2016) (ill.)
Collection Pierre-Yves Le Diberder, Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 14 October 2016, lot 54, pp. 82–84 (ill.)
Tableaux, mobilier et objets d’art, Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 13 June 2018, lot 324, p. 205 (ill.)
Claire Papon. “Du grand art pour les petits secrets.” La Gazette Drouot (13 December 2018) (ill.)
(on Fischer):
Exposition des produits de l’industrie française en 1839. Rapport du jury central (Paris: Chez L. Bouchard-Huzard, 1839): III, 179–180.
Rapport du jury central sur l’exposition des produits de l’industrie française en 1844 (Paris: Fain et Thunot, 1844): III, 6–7.
Gustave Halphen. Rapport sur l’Exposition publique des produits de l’industrie française de 1844 (Paris: 1845): 42–43.
Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ébénistes du XIXe siècle 1795–1889, Leurs oeuvres et leurs marques (Paris: Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 1984): 198.
(on Tables à la Tronchin):
Yvonne Brunhammer. “The Eighteenth Century. France” in World Furniture, ed. Helena Hayward (London: Hamlyn, 1965): 123.
Pierre Verlet et. al. French Cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth Century (Paris and New York: Hachette, 1965; orig. publ. 1965): 328.
Louise Ade Boger. The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles, rev. ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969; orig. publ. 1959): 180.
Louis Faton. “Mobilier: Table à la Tronchin.” L’Estampille no. 99 (Juillet 1978): 47–48.
Pierre Verlet. French Furniture of the 18th Century, trans. Penelope Hunter-Stiebel (Charlottesville, VA: 1991; orig. publ. 1955): 114.
