Hector GUIMARD (1867-1942)

Auditorium armchair with folding seat, 1899.

Special model designed for the Humbert de Romans concert hall, Paris.

Provenance:

– Humbert de Romans concert hall in Paris, demolished in 1905. Guimard architect
– Some seats were recovered and reused in a small cinema in the Vézelay region
– Formerly in the Alain Blondel collection

Two lateral bases with a vegetal motif, made of bottle-green painted cast iron, supporting the seat, armrests, and backrest. Solid mahogany backrest with an openwork cut-out, upholstered in bottle-green moleskin, stamped with the HR monogram. Folding seat mounted on lateral pivots, upholstered in bottle-green moleskin, stamped with the HR monogram. Armrests upholstered in bottle-green moleskin. Brass rod connecting the feet, shortened to adapt to a single armchair. Originally, the armchairs were assembled in rows and connected by a full-length brass rod.

90 x 64 x 47 cm.

 

Bibliography

– Hector Guimard, F. Lanier Graham, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, pp. 16-17.

– The Ephemeral Adventure of the Humbert de Romans Hall, Georges Vigne, Monuments Historiques, n°175, July – August 1991, p.63.

– Guimard, Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Musée d’Orsay, 1993, p. 234.

– Hector Guimard, Georges Vigne and Felipe Ferré, Charles Moreau and Ferré editions, 2003, p.118.

 

Collection:

– Musée d’Orsay, Paris.