South of France - Decorative Art

Important Bas relief en Grès émaillé composé de 9 plaques individuelles représentant un décor à l'antique comme une fresque dans le goût de Jean Cocteau année 1950/ 1960.. Chaque pla...

Magnificent embossed leather screen with four-leaf China decoration, colored lacquer and gold leaf, hand-painted, decorated with figures and vases, Piedmontese work from the end of t...

Large and unusual wall decoration ceramic figuring a bird . Glazed ceramic in shades of blue, white, green and yellow. Signed at the back " Les Argonautes" Vallauris circa 1965 The...

Exceptional staircase called Cité radieuse by Charles Edouard Jeanneret called Le Corbusier (1887-1965) Uprights in larch, eleven steps in exotic wood. ...

Diego Giacometti (1905)1985), La Promenade ses Amis carpet, circa 1985, wool, With a label woven inscribed GIACOMETTI and numbered 87/ A-100 on the underside. This lot is number 1...

Pair of herons, sculpture, Paine bronze iron, circa 2000, France. Height (the one with the neck upwards) 2m70, diameter 80 cm, the other heron height 2m25, diameter 75 cm.

Exceptional staircase called Cité radieuse by Charles Edouard Jeanneret called Le Corbusier (1887-1965) Uprights in larch, eleven steps in exotic wood. Ramps in black lacquered metal manufactured by the Jean Prouvé workshops. Restoration of use and maintenance on the ramps. Dimensions: H: 2.30; L: 69cm Provenance: Housing unit, Briey en Forêt. The staircase, identical in each duplex, is the result of close collaboration between Jean PROUVE and LE CORBUSIER. Its beginnings date back to 1922. Le Corbusier wanted to create "vertical garden cities", capable of simultaneously responding to the aspiration of the individual house (in contact with nature) and the advantages of the collective building (access to modern equipment ). This idea, perfected during the 1930s, resulted in a project for a large building in 1939, with "inner streets", "duplex" apartments, equipped roof terrace and integrated shops. The Briey Housing Unit, also called the Radiant City of Briey-en-Forêt, is a housing unit built between 1959 and 1960 in Meurthe-et-Moselle by the Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier according to the model that he established for Marseille. The housing unit project is part of a larger project for a new residential area in the heart of the forest, in this town in the Lorraine mining basin. It is Georges-Henri Pingusson who is the chief architect of this neighborhood project and who is also building two sets of 100 housing units and a school near the unit. The objective is to accommodate the population then in full increase in connection with the expansion of the iron mines and the steel industry. In 1955, Le Corbusier entered into official contact with the town hall of Briey, he was appointed chief architect of the project and André Wogenscky...

Andre Acquart (1922-2016) Suite of six wooden doors with painted decoration on one side of an androgynous character holding a candlestick on a pink background. Each door is signed. B...

- Handspun and handwoven wool, oil paint - 2022 - Unique piece - Framing by Laetitia Verchere - Edition of 10. Dimensions: 17.3 x 17.3 in // 44 x 44 cm.

- Handspun and handwoven wool, oil paint - 2020 - Unique piece - Framing by Laetitia Verchere Dimensions: 17.3 x 17.3 in // 44 x 44 cm.

Pablo Picasso Madoura, Scène de plage, 1956, stamped and marked edition Picasso and Madoura. Edition Picasso. Partially glazed ceramic. Measures: D...

Large fiberglass panel with a bronze-coloured paint finish, representing a dancing Indian deity. Possibly originally made as part of a theatre decor. An...