JOAN BUSQUETS I JANÉ (Barcelona, 1874 - 1949). Auxiliary cabinet with mirror, ca. 1900. In walnut wood, pyro-engraved marquetry, gilt brass fittings a

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  JOAN BUSQUETS I JANÉ (Barcelona, 1874 - 1949). Auxiliary cabinet with mirror, ca. 1900. In walnut wood, pyro-engraved marquetry, gilt brass fittings and handles. Origin: Villa Adauta in La Garriga. Work reproduced in the book “La casa Busquets. A history of furniture and decoration from modernism to déco in Barcelona ”, Teresa M. Sala. Color detail on cover; P. 121 b / w photo and p. 311, color photo. Measurements: 250 x 77 x 50 cm. Modernist auxiliary furniture designed by Joan Busquets, with the front richly decorated with pyrography marquetry representing sensual floral bouquets in soffits that compartmentalize the structure: three lower drawers with hinged lid, a small central cabinet and upper drawer. The upper gallery and mirror frame are also marked with sinuous flowers and feature clover-shaped finials in gilded wood. The attractive zigzag of curves and counter-curves shape the profile of the piece of furniture, giving it a characteristic organicity, from the ribbed legs to the mirror. The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya conserves and exhibits a remarkable collection of projects and furniture by Joan Busquets. Furniture, ceiling lamps and other pieces, are part of this set, as well as more than 150 original drawings-sketches made by hand by the author, in watercolor, ink and graphite pencil, where Joan Busquets highlights his mastery and where we see several examples very similar to the works of this set that we are auctioning. Furniture designer and decorator, Joan Busquets is currently considered one of the most representative figures of Catalan modernism. He began his training in the family workshop, and then studied at the Escuela de La Llotja in Barcelona, where his teachers were Guitart and Lostaló. In the 1895-96 academic year he obtained a scholarship that allowed him to travel around Spain, which he obtained thanks to a project for a Renaissance-style bookcase-cabinet. He exhibited furniture projects for the first time at the Barcelona Exhibition of 1896. The workshop of Joan Busquets was one of the most outstanding of modernist Catalonia and is currently, together with the production of Gaspar Homar, the most representative testimony of the furniture and decoration of Catalan modernism. He was president of the Fomento de las Artes Decorativas between 1918 and 1921, and supervised the manufacture of furniture for Gaudí's Casa Calvet. Works by Busquets can currently be found in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Güell Palace in Barcelona, the National Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of Catalan Modernism in Barcelona, among others, as well as in several important private collections.
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