Bateau divan by André Arbus
Bateau divan
Parchment-covered wood, brass mounts
France, circa 1937
Dimensions:
32 in. (81 cm) H
85 in. (216 cm) L
32.5 (83 cm) W
17 in. (43 cm) seat H
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André Arbus (1903-1969) was born into a two generation cabinetmaking family. After attending the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, he worked as an independent designer and architect, setting up a Paris workshop in 1932, where, like Jules Leleu and Jacques Ruhlmann, he worked in a refined and rigorous mode, designing furniture with elegant and somewhat mannered lines.
After the “Great War,” a phenomenon called “retour à l’ordre” (the term is said to derive from the book of essays by Jean Cocteau, Le rappel a l’ordre, published in 1926) manifested in French art, architecture and the decorative arts in which the extremes of the pre-war avant-garde were supplanted with a return to more traditional modes, largely classisicm. Arbus was one of the most important furniture designers of this period, and reinterpretation of classical forms is a dominant theme in his work.This daybed model was exhibited by Arbus at the Pavilion of the Société des Artistes Décorateurs in 1937. Literature: DOWNLOAD SPECS (PDF)    
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