Rene Gabriel Dark Wood Oak Lounge Chair White Cushion Midcentury, France, 1950s

6 French midcentury cerused dining chairs, 1930s Beautiful oak Art Deco French dining chairs, in lovely condition. The wood is beautifully cerus...

Awesome Rustic chairs, Very Heavy, deep and comfortable. Imported from France. Modern chalet or perfect eclectic mix for any Decor. Beautiful grain on wood.

Straw wicker woven rush chair midcentury Jean Michel Frank style, 1930, France. Woven chair that shows fine workmanship. Beautifully woven with patina throughout. Sycomore Source: Jaques de Vos , Inte´rieur , Paris 1990 . Measures: 81 cm deep 57 cm high 53 cm wide Jean-Michel Frank (28 February 1895–3 August 1941) was a French interior designer known for Minimalist interiors decorated with plain-lined but sumptuous furniture made of luxury materials, such as shagreen, mica, and intricate straw marquetry. Jean-Michel Frank was born in Paris, a son of Le´on Frank, a banker, and his wife and cousin, the former Nanette Frank. From 1904, he attended the Lyce´e Janson de Sailly in Paris. He began law school in 1911, but in 1915, he was hit by the double blow of the death of his two elder brothers, Oscar and Georges, on the front lines of World War I and that of his father who committed suicide. In 1928, he lost his mother who had been in a Swiss asylum for several years. From 1920-1925 he traveled and visited the world. In Venice he met the cosmopolitan society that gathered around Stravinsky and Diaghilev. Eugenia Erra´zuriz revealed to him the beauty of 18th century styles and her own modern, minimalist esthetic, and he became her disciple, circa 1927. He then got in contact with a Parisian decorator called Adolphe Chanaux to do his apartment in the Rue de Verneuil...

Sornay attributed deco Animal print rosewood lounge chairs, France, 1930s-1940s Mid-Century. Incredible rosewood chairs with beautiful Patina throughout. Modernist square arms and...

Pier luigi Colli oak sideboard, Mid-Century Modern, Italy, 1950s Beautiful oak sideboard. The oak has lovely patina throughout the piece. It is a large-scale sideboard with four do...

6 dining chairs imported from France. Beautiful condition. Rush seating and wood in excellent condition. Made in 1960's.

Set of 4 oak chairs with white fabric seat by René Gabriel, 1950s René Gabriel (1899 - 1950) is a precursor of French industrial design. He was one of the first to create, as early as the 1930s, economical mass-produced furniture combining aestheticism, robustness and sobriety, a source of inspiration for a whole generation of future designers. A student at the Germain Pilon School and then at the National School of Decorative Arts, René Gabriel began as a domino maker by designing and producing his own wallpapers, and then made his mark as a decorative artist in most of the salons and international exhibitions of the inter-war period. In 1927, he began his research into the creation of mass-produced furniture and proposed a piece of furniture composed of juxtaposable and superposable elements. He studied an economical version that he presented in 1934 at the Salon des arts ménagers under the name of RG elements. Another major turning point came in 1944, when the Ministry of Reconstruction and Urban Planning commissioned him to create emergency furniture. A fervent advocate of furniture for all, René Gabriel designed numerous models for disaster victims by establishing close ties with industry. He also collaborated with Auguste Perret...

René Gabriel Oak "Reconstruction" chairs, France 1946. "Reconstruction" chairs were designed by René Gabriel and manufactured in France circa 1946. Solid Oak wood base and structu...

3 oak chairs in the style of René Gabriel, circa 1950. Colorful caning of origin.

1950s cerused lounge chair attributed to Rene Gabriel. Has a collapsible back, a caned seat and curved arms.

Oak & Steel reconstruction daybed. Can be upholstered on request.

Rare pair of lounge chairs by René Gabriel (1890 - 1950). This model was designed in 1946 and was presented at the the ’Salon des artistes décorateurs' in 1953. Literature: René Gabr...