ELIZABETH EYRE DE LANUX (1894-1996)
Brushed oak desk, stained black and white ceruse with three drawers in the front with its brushed oak armchair with crossed leather straps (not original), circa 1932
the desk: 73 cm high × 160 cm wide × 58 cm deep – 28,7 × 62,9 × 22,8 in. the armchair: 77 cm high × 65 cm wide × 40 cm deep – 30,3 × 25,6 × 15,7 in.
Provenance
– Maitres Champin et Lombrail, Hotel des Ventes d’Enghien, March 21, 1982,
lot 139
– Former Collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, Avenue de Breteuil, Paris
– Private collection, Paris, acquired directly from Pierre Bergé
Documentation: – ‘Jacques Grange’, Pierre Passebon, Editions du Regard, 2008; our desk and chair in Yves Saint Laurent’s studio on Avenue de Breteuil designed by Jacques Grange, circa 1990
– Louis-Géraud Castor & Willy Huybrechts, ‘Eyre de Lanux, Une décoratrice américaine à Paris’, Paris: Norma Editions, 2013, page 171
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