Table (for Jacques Doucet residence, Paris, France) (Primary Title)
Rose Adler, French, 1890–1959 (Artist)
Known for her talent in bookbinding, Rose Adler also created furniture for French fashion designer, art collector, and patron Jacques Doucet using rare materials in geometric patterns. For the top of this table, Adler created a fantasy cityscape of stairs, arches, and street lights using shagreen (ray skin). This table appears prominently in a period photograph of Doucet’s house in Neuilly, a suburb of Paris. An example of Adler’s bookbinding can be seen in a nearby wall case.
not signed
Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis
“The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis,” Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 20-Nov. 10, 1991;
©artist or artist’s estate
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