Bruno PAUL (1874 – 1968)

Neo-Baroque sideboard with two doors and three drawers, 1914.
Carved solid poplar, lacquered jade green, with moldings and silver-plated handles. Gilt top.

Logo LP above a stylized gate, on the reverse of the lock, likely corresponding to the L. Parsch manufactory in Remscheid, one of the major centers of German locksmithing.
A variant was exhibited at the Deutscher Werkbund, Bern in 1916.

H. 96 x W. 291 x D. 70 cm

Bibliography:

– Jahrbuch Des Deutschen Werkbundes 1915, pl. 25 and 26. Variant reproduced.
– Adolf G. Schneck, Neue Mobel vom Jugendstil bis heute, Munich, 1962, p. 93. Variant exhibited at the Deutscher Werkbund, Bern 1916.
– Kunsthandwerk und Industrieform des 19 und 20 Jahrhunderts, Dresden, 1976, p. 56.
– Art Deco in Europe, decorative trends in applied arts around 1925, exhibition catalog of the Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, 1989, pp. 12, 252. Variant belonging to the Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Dresden.
– Alfred Ziffer, Bruno Paul, Deutsche raumkunst und architektur zwischen Jugendstil und Modern, Ed. Klinkhard & Biermann, 1992, p. 213, ill. 422.