JOAN BUSQUETS I JANÉ (Barcelona, 1874 - 1949). Noucentista arquilla cabinet, ca.1910-20. Mahogany and walnut, marquetry in fruit woods and mother of p

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Jun 17, 2021

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  JOAN BUSQUETS I JANÉ (Barcelona, 1874 - 1949). Noucentista arquilla cabinet, ca.1910-20. Mahogany and walnut, marquetry in fruit woods and mother of pearl. Keep the key, which is signed. Signed. Origin: Villa Adauta in La Garriga. Measurements: 173 x 112 x 44 cm. set; 105 x 107 x 42 cm. cabinet. Arquilla furniture designed by Joan Busquets. Raised on carved legs with decorative incisions joined by metal fasteners, a geometric fillet decorates the waist of the table, on which sits the chest of drawers. This consists of five levels (11 drawers) and a central door. The front is decorated with fruit marquetry and mother-of-pearl inlay, alternating geometric designs for the drawers and floral designs on the small door that shelters three shelves. In this piece of furniture, Busquets shows a transitional style, still rooted in modernism but seeming to advance solutions that would be developed in Art Deco. The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya preserves 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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