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21 - Jean-Michel FRANK (1895–1941) for Édition Casa Comte in Buen…
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Estimate €10,000 - €12,000
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Jean-Michel FRANK (1895–1941) for Édition Casa Comte in Buenos Aires Design created circa 1928 Blackened wrought-iron console table with a rectangular top comprising a wooden top covered in red leather. Tapered quadrangular legs. Metal label reading ‘Comte Buenos Aires obra presupuesto tarea seccion industrial 3800’. 79.5 x 120 x 38 cm (wear to the leather) A certificate from the Jean Michel FRANK Committee will be provided to the purchaser. A blackened wrought-iron console table from a Casa Comte (Buenos Aires) edition of the design created by Jean-Michel Frank around 1928. With a wooden top covered in red leather. Metal tag reading “Comte Buenos Aires obra presupuesto tarea seccion industrial 3800”. 31.30 x 47.24 x 14.97 inches (signs of wear on the leather) Comes with a certificate from the Jean-Michel Frank Committee. Bibliography: - Mo Amelia Teitelbaum: “Jean-Michel Frank: A South American Adventure”, 2025 Archives d’architecture moderne (AAM), featuring a console table and a bridge table with the same tapered blackened wrought-iron base, reproduced on pages 182 and 183. - Laure Verchère: “Jean-Michel Frank”, Assouline, New York, 2019; a variant of this model with a different top is reproduced on the cover and on pages 138–139. - “Jean-Michel Frank, an Interior Designer in 1930s Paris”, exhibition catalogue from the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, Paris, 2 October 2009–3 January 2010, model reproduced on page 90. - Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier: “Jean-Michel Frank”, Norma Editions, Paris, 2006, design reproduced on page 314. - Léopold Diego Sanchez: “Jean-Michel Frank”, Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1997, design reproduced on page 221. - Harper’s Bazaar, July 1935, gouache by Jean Hugo illustrating the living room of André Meyer’s flat, featuring a coffee table of the same design (NP)
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About the sale Masters VI – 20th-Century Decorative Arts
Auction location
Auction time 11/06/2026 at 2:00 PM
Pictures credits:
YANN GIRAULT
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