Extremely Rare Set of 15 Garouste & Bonetti ’_’_’_Palace' Dining Chairs, 1980

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By Maison Cedric

Apr 23, 2020 - May 24, 2020

Set Reminder 2020-04-23 10:00:00 2020-05-24 12:00:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : A Spring Buy Now Sale Event of 20th Century French and Italian design from 1950s to 1970s https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/maison-cedric/a-spring-buy-now-sale-event-of-20th-century-french-and-italian-design-from-1950s-to-1970s-5071
Maison Cedric's team is pleased to present our eclectic selection of 20th century pieces, mainly from France and Italy. We curate our collection based on knowledge, intuition, and of course aesthetics. We restore all our pieces in house, and we truly care about unique pieces with stories to tell. Maison Cedric cedric@maisoncedric.com

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  This is an incredibly rare set of 15 dining chairs by Elizabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti, model Palace, made in white cream painted solid oak. Garouste & Bonetti began their collaboration and gained global recognition for their interior design of the Paris nightclub Le Palace in 1979, when Fabrice Eamer ask them to create the decoration, and these chairs were specifically designed for the restaurant Le Privilege in Le Palace nightclub. We newly upholstered them using Italian Rubelli pattern fabric model Venezia Beat reference 30264-007. This is a unique opportunity to purchase a part of modern design history. We won't separate the set, which is suitable for a large dining table fitting 14 chairs, with an extra one just in case. Reference : Stephen Calloway, Fran’__ois Baudot and GŽrard-Georges Lemaire, Elizabeth Garouste et Mattia Bonetti, Marseille, 1990, page 52-54. Garouste & Bonetti duo were celebrated for inventing a new Baroque and barbarian romanticism. They became recognised as international players in the art and design market from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Their furniture is inventive, unconventional, subtle, constituted by heteroclite and unusual materials, in reference to the Middle Ages and Africa, revisiting the Venetian baroque and the neo-classicism. As they once stated about their work : ’_’_’_Our hope is to give people the feeling of freedom in the choice of forms. Good taste really bothers us a lot. What we care about is implanting doubt. We don't have any rules.' DIMENSIONS H 34.65 in. x W 17.72 in. x D 20.87 in. H 88 cm x W 45 cm x D 53 cm SEAT HEIGHT 18.51 in. (47 cm)
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