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Robert Mallet-Stevens - Chair of the villa Cavrois - 1930 / reedition 1978<br/> &copy;  madd-bordeaux - L. Gauthier
Robert Mallet-Stevens - Chair of the villa Cavrois - 1930 / reedition 1978
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object n°01

Chair by Robert Mallet-Stevens

CAPC depot

This chair, rediscovered in the 1980s, is attributed to Robert Mallet-Stevens (Paris 1886 - Paris 1945): a similar one appears in a photo of the kitchen of the villa of M. Cavrois, in Croix near Lille, for which the architect designed the project and the entire layout. The huge villa was commissioned in 1929 and delivered in 1932.

It owes its emergence from anonymity to the interior designer Andrée Putman, who in 1978 created the Ecart agency and reissued rare pieces from the 1930s and 1940s. The chair she edited was based on the Villa Cavrois model in various colours, black and white. It was then seen in several of Andrée Putman's projects, such as the CAPC in Bordeaux in 1984, when it was refurbished by Valode & Pistre and the Ecart agency. The finish chosen for the CAPC is an anthracite grey epoxy lacquer.

object n°01 (pdf)

previous objects of the month

object n°35
Gift of Edouard Evrard de Fayolle, 1911 - Inv 4759 & Inv 4760
object n°34
Gift in memory of Léon Gaspart, 1997 - Inv 97.2.7
object n°33
Bequest from Pierre de Giouetti, 1985 - Inv 85.2.8
object n°32
Deposit of Professor Robert Coustet, 2009 - D 2009.4.26
object n°31
Bequest from Georges Périé, 1945 - Inv 78 23
object n°30
Deposit of Professor Robert Coustet, 2014 - D 2014.1.15
object n°29
Bequest of Pierre-Eymeric de Pelleport-Burète , 1932 - Inv 11271
object n°28
Gift of the Cappellini Company, 2013
object n°27
Bequest from Raymond Jeanvrot, 1966 - Inv 66.1.312
object n°26
Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1958 - Inv 58.1.10640
object n°25
Gift of the Countess of Marcellus, 1955 - Inv 55.4.1 to 55.4.9
object n°24
Purchase by the City of Bordeaux, 1974 - Inv 74.3.3 / Gift of Edouard Bonie, 1894 - Inv 73.1.88 / Purchase by the City of Bordeaux, 1993 - Inv 93.3.4 / Gift of the Association of Friends of the Hôtel de Lalande, 1992 - Inv 92.2.6
object n°23
Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1958 - Inv 58.1.6210
object n°21
Bequest from Daniel Astruc, 1953 - Inv 53.9.14
object n°20
Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1963 - Inv 63.8.1 and 63.8.2
object n°19
Old funds of the City of Bordeaux - Inv 75 54
object n°18
Private collection
object n°17
Gift Edition Danese, 1988 - Inv 2013.0.23