JOAN BUSQUETS I JANÉ (Barcelona, 1874-1949). Modernist single bed, ca. 1905. Walnut and root wood, pyro-engraved and gilt marquetry. Medallion painted

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  JOAN BUSQUETS I JANÉ (Barcelona, 1874-1949). Modernist single bed, ca. 1905. Walnut and root wood, pyro-engraved and gilt marquetry. Medallion painted by Juli Borrell i Pla. Signed on the right side of the foot of the bed. Work reproduced in color in the book “La casa Busquets. A history of furniture and decoration from modernism to déco in Barcelona ”, Teresa M. Sala, p. 316. Origin: Villa Adauta in La Garriga. Measurements: 180 x 135 cm (headboard); 85 x 135 cm (cake) and 180 x 135 x 215 cm (fully assembled). Modernist bed in walnut and root, a Joan Busquets design decorated with carved, gilded and polychrome motifs and pyrography marquetry. It consists of a high headboard defined by sinuous moldings that delimit an upper medallion, made by the Catalan painter and muralist Juli Borrell i Pla, with the image of Christ polychrome on its front. The piece is completed with panels decorated with floral motifs in pyrography marquetry, a decorative display that denotes the technical skill of the cabinetmaker. The organic and naturalistic layout of the headboard, fully modernist, is reflected in the foot of the bed, determined by the curved moldings, the vegetal marquetry and the coup de fouet that ornaments its waist. The entire structure is raised on bulbous legs, and is outlined with fine and delicate moldings with floral ornaments in relief that reinforce its organic and naturalistic language. It is, therefore, a piece of furniture of the first level within Catalan modernism, being produced by one of the best workshops of the time, that of Joan Busquets, and for the perfection and meticulousness with which each of its details have been made. Busquets y Jané first introduced the new technique of polychrome pyrography - replacing marquetry - in 1898, becoming a characteristic element of what is known as the "Busquets style". 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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