A French Art Deco Oak and Fruitwood Enfilade
A French Art Deco Oak and Fruitwood Enfilade
The rectangular top with rounded fore-corners above a deep case fitted with three doors, each centred by a bold lozenge-form panel of quarter-veneered fruitwood — the four-way book-matched veneer creating a sunburst or point de Hongrie effect of considerable decorative richness — within a raised moulded oak surround enriched with a carved rope-twist border of crisp, even execution, the doors fitted with small circular brass knob handles and keyhole escutcheons, the whole raised on a substantial splayed and chamfered plinth base of architectural solidity, the case sides with plain quarter-veneered panels of conforming character. Throughout in oak and honey-toned fruitwood, the surfaces retaining a warm, even patina.
French, circa 1940
The present enfilade — the term used in French for the low sideboard or buffet of the dining room — is an accomplished and characteristic example of the French Art Deco furniture production of the 1930s, when the influence of the great Parisian designers of the previous decade had fully permeated the work of regional and provincial ébénistes across France, producing a body of furniture that translated the grand ambitions of Ruhlmann, Montagnac and Leleu into more accessible, domestic forms without sacrificing formal rigour or decorative quality.
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