MAJORELLES FRERES & CIE.  MEUBLES D'ART

(TRADE CATALOGUE)  MAJORELLES FRERES & CIE.  MEUBLES D'ART.

Nancy; Paris; Lyon; and Lille: Ateliers, (circa 1910-1915). Oblong 4to. Printed wrappers. Title leaf, 96 plates of gravures from photographs.

Louis Majorelle (1859-1926) was an important French cabinet maker; though trained as a painter in Paris, he took over his father Auguste's cabinet making workshop in Nancy in 1879.  He was influenced by E. Galle, and by circa 1890 he was designing Art Nouveau furniture in the Ecole de Nancy style.  By 1900 he was a leading manufacturer, producing machine made pieces in a series of workshops specializing in cabinet making, marquetry, etc.  The metalwork section of the factory produced elaborate mounts for balustrades, lamps, etc. in hammered wrought iron, all in neo-rococo Art Nouveau style.  The present catalogue is entirely Art Nouveau in style and illustrates table lamps, hanging lamps, ceramics and bronzes, furniture of all sorts, bedroom and dining room suites, etc.  The Majorelle factory closed in 1915, burned down in 1916 and was reconstructed from 1918.  Majorelle designed Art Deco style furniture and was on the jury of the 1925 Art Deco Exposition.  The present catalogue would appear to date circa 1910-1915.  Very good.

 

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