Eugène Gaillard Walnut and Mahogany Dining Suite
SOLD
$57,500
This French Art Nouveau dining suite, by Eugène Gaillard, consists of a carved French walnut table with two matching leaves, and eight mahogany chairs with sinuously carved backs and seats upholstered in green fabric. The table has decorative carving spaced around the apron and graciously-carved legs. When the table is closed, without leaves, the central legs resemble a pedestal. The curved carving on the chairs' legs echoes the style of the table legs. Sold exclusively as a matching set.
Customization: The suite's chairs are currently upholstered in an olive green velvet fabric, but can be reupholstered in any colorway of your choosing upon request—we have shown a variety of colorways here as examples.
*Please allow minimum 4 weeks for custom upholstery.*
- Product Details
- Curator's Notes
Item #: F-19789
Artist: Eugène Gaillard
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 29.5" height, 65" width (closed), 95" width (with one finished leaf), 45.5" depth (table); 37" height (each of eight chairs)
Materials: French walnut, Mahogany, Olive green velvet upholstery (chairs may be reupholstered upon request, please contact us for additional information)
Provenance: Félix Marcilhac, Paris 1978; Barbara and Lloyd Macklowe, New York, Macklowe Gallery Ltd.
Literature: Dining suite pictured in Art Nouveau Bing Paris Style of 1900, by Gabriel Weisberg, p. 179, 205, 224; Dining suite also pictured in Art Nouveau Style, by Laurence Buffet Challie, p. 39; Dining suite also pictured in The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Vol. III: Furniture, by Alastair Duncan, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1996, pp. 209-210
Eugène Gaillard turned to the natural form of water plants, like water lily pads, to inspire the curved forms and organic fullness of the carving on the suite.