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musée des Arts décoratifs
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Chair _One, 2004, Konstantin Grcic, Munich<br/> &copy;  madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
Chair _One, 2004, Konstantin Grcic, Munich
© madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
object n°02

One_chair by Konstantin Grcic

2004

In 2000, Konstantin Grcic was approached by Eugenio Perazza, the CEO and founder of Magis, a publishing company located about 30 km north of Venice. The company specialises in the production of plastic furniture. At the beginning of the new millennium, however, this material is less attractive, because of its association with poor design and the growing environmentalist movement in this field. Perrazza asked Konstantin Grcic to think about creating a range of cast aluminium furniture. The designer had never worked with this material before, but the challenge suited him...

object n°02 (pdf)
Ornemental vase made in Bordeaux by Jules Vieillard & Cie<br/> &copy;  madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
Ornemental vase made in Bordeaux by Jules Vieillard & Cie
© madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
object n°03

Ornelental vase, Manufacture Jules vieillard & Cie, Bordeaux

Late 19th century

This decorative vase realised in Bordeaux, by the manufacture Jules Vieillard & Cie is extraordinary rich in his eclectic decors of the ceramic company's favorites designs and the différents techniques developed between  1878 and 1895. The elements represented testify of influences that characterize the ceramic production of the last century across France...

object n°03 (pdf)
Pair of urns decorated with seditious images, Chinese export porcelain<br/> &copy;  madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
Pair of urns decorated with seditious images, Chinese export porcelain
© madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
object n°04

Pair of urns decorated with seditious images

Legs d'André Lataillade, 1969 - Inv 69.3.198 & 69.3.199

Commissioned in China by French aristocrats who emigrated after 1793, this pair of porcelain urns is based on a model from the Swedish factory in Marieberg. Neoclassical in form, they feature a central medallion with a grisaille decoration of a funeral urn. It is a seditious image in memory of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette guillotined in 1793...

object n°04 (pdf)
Reading table is attributed to Pierre IV Migeon, circa 1750<br/> &copy;  madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
Reading table is attributed to Pierre IV Migeon, circa 1750
© madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
object n°05

Reading table

XVIIe siècle

This unstamped reading table is attributed to Pierre IV Migeon (1696-1758), a famous representative of a great dynasty of Parisian cabinetmakers. Indeed, its shape, called "kidney" because it evokes the silhouette of a kidney, the work of the veneer in curling, and especially the pattern of the gilded bronze falls that protect the edges of the legs are characteristic of the production of the latter...

object n°05 (pdf)
The Montesquieu bust, De l’esprit des lois, 1748<br/> &copy;  madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
The Montesquieu bust, De l’esprit des lois, 1748
© madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
object n°06

The Montesquieu bust

1767

The object of the month of October is the famous sculpture representing Charles-Louis de Secondat baron de la Brède and Montesquieu by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, sculptor to the king, dated 1767. Commissioned after the death of the author of De l'esprit des lois (1748) by the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux, the sculpture was part of a prosperous period for the city, enriched by both trade and the intellectual exchanges of the Enlightenment. Montesquieu was a member and then director of the Academy, and his death was followed by a veritable cult on the part of the academics and the city. Hence the creation, until the 20th century, of effigies of the great man, all made from this marble, in plaster or porcelain, intended to adorn the various cultural sites of the city.

This presentation takes place at a time when the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux is celebrating its tercentenary on 3, 4 and 5 October 2012 and is publishing Un passé qui éclaire l'avenir, 1712-2012, Bordeaux, 2012

object n°06 (pdf)
Gourd of Nevers<br/> &copy;  madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
Gourd of Nevers
© madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
object n°07

Gourd of Nevers

XVIIth century

November's "Object of the Month" is devoted to the restoration of an earthenware gourd from Nevers, an important production centre in Northern France in the 17th and 18th centuries. This earthenware is characterised by its so-called "grand feu" decorations (a single high-temperature firing to fix the glaze and the colours at the same time), which are first treated in cameos of blues, then in polychromy (blue, yellow, yellow-orange and brown).
A restoration campaign of the gourd, launched in 2007, allowed to recover the characteristics of this production by eliminating the traces of a previous repairing intervention which prevented a good reading of the piece...

object n°07 (pdf)
object n°08

Paintings of Jules Vieillard and his wife

Gift of Viscount and Viscountess Alain de Baritault du Carpia, 2012 - Inv 2012.5.1 & 2012.5.2

For December, the object of the month is doubled with the presentation of the portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Jules Vieillard, the director of the famous Bordeaux ceramics factory of the same name and his wife. These two works, recently donated to the museum, complete the presentation of 19th century ceramics. Although the museum already had a sculpted portrait of Jules Vieillard, his painted representations are rare. The two portraits depict a middle-class couple in their home: it is an opportunity to examine the personalities of this great entrepreneur and his wife...

object n°08 (pdf)
Pair of statuettes of a seabird and a guinea fowl, signed below the pieces Gête<br/> &copy; madd Bordeaux - L. Joubert
Pair of statuettes of a seabird and a guinea fowl, signed below the pieces Gête
©madd Bordeaux - L. Joubert
object n°09

Statuettes of CAB

Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1986 - Inv 86.3.1 & 86.3.2

An integral part of Bordeaux's industrial and artistic heritage, the C.A.B Céramique d'Art de Bordeaux ceramics workshop was founded after the First World War. This factory was founded on the initiative of Jean Mérillon, a descendant of the Bordeaux earthenware maker Boyer who created an earthenware factory in 1765. C.A.B was located in Caudéran, then a separate commune from Bordeaux...

object n°09 (pdf)
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