French Art Deco Furniture
Dominique French Art Deco Chrome & Saint-Gobain Glass Console
This superb French art deco wall console was designed and produced by DominiqueDominique
[Founded in 1922]
Founded by Andre Domin (1883 - 1962) and Marcel Genevriere (1885 - 1976). Their showroom was located at 104 Faubourg, St. Honore. Their furniture design was characterized by simplicity and dignity.
One of Dominique's first commissions was to provide furniture for the home of silver designer Jean Puiforcat in Biarritz. This was followed by a commission to do the establishment of the perfumer Houbigant in Neuilly.
Beginning in 1926 they exhibited with Chareau, Legrain, Puiforcat and Raymond Templier as the "Groupe des Cinq".
Dominique exhibited a "Salon d'un Ambassadeur" at the 1925 Paris Exposition International des Arts Décoratifs et Industrieles Modernes. They also exhibited at the Exposition Colonial in Paris in 1931 and created a "Salon de Musique" for the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques also in Paris.
For the great French ocean liner Normandie, launched in 1932, four luxury apartments were commissioned for each by a great French design firm (Leleu, Sue, Montagnac and Dominique). The Rouen suite which Dominique designed "was remarkable for the extremely refined use that Dominique made of materials...unquestionably the most avant-garde of the four talents assigned to the deluxe apartments".; Andre Domin (1882 – 1962) and Marcel Genevriere (1885 – 1967) ca. 1925. The console has two graduated chrome quarter circles supporting a chrome tray. The tray is inset with a ¾" slab of Saint Gobain glass, smooth on top and textured underneath. The console, which is 39 ½" wide x 10" deep x 10" high, is noted in the following literature: G.J. Gros, Dominique, Mobilier et Decoration, 1931, page 23; Gaston Denys, Le V Salon des artistes de ce temps au Petit Palais, 1935, p. 484; Lucien Farnoux-Reynaud, Dominique, Mobilier et Decoration, 1936, p. 438; Felix Marcilhac, Dominique Decorateur – Ensemblier du Xxe Siecle, ed. De l’Amateur, Paris, 2008, pp. 125, 198.
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