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Regence style trumeau with a flowered cartouche

This low regence style trumeau was made in the 19th century. The trumeau with the top curved shows a framing painted in gold composed of a frieze with geometrical motifs and surmounted by a beautiful cartouche from where are escaping garlands of flowers and fruits. This mirror is also set on a painted in white decor reminding of a classical architecture with four fluted pilasters.

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Concrete garden furniture attributed to Willy Guhl

Four-pieces living room by Swiss designer Willy Guhl from the 1950s in natural fiber cement. « Willy Guhl was an inventor, an experimenter, a resercher and a visionary. Despite that, he did not get lost in utopia. He reveals himself to be pragmatic almost a genius. » Robert Haussman Willy Guhl was part of these historical designers historiques who have contributed to the international reputation of the Swiss design. He was one of the big representative of Neo-Functionalism. From a carpenter father, he follows a furniture maker formation in the Kunstgewerbeschule of Zurich – School of applied arts of Zurich here he teaches from 1941 -, and becomes the director of the interior architecture department 10 years after. He leads in the late 1940's pionneer reaserches in the plastic furniture field. He develops then a knowledge about moulding technical that we allow him to reveal himself by transposing them on a new material : the Eternit, also called fibercement, which he is one of the first to use in Europe. The Eternit is a kind of cement reinforce by asbestos and with a fiber texture which allows to create audacious pieces with new shapes. It takes the aspect of larges slabs to which it is possible to give a shape as long as they are not dried. Produced in the origin for the industry, it's a cheap material with an important resistance, so perfectly adapted for the fabrication of external furniture.

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Large Louis XV style curved and finely carved Sarrancolin marble mantel

This important Louis XV-style mantelpiece was carved in Sarrancolin marble in the 19th century. The lintel is adorned with a shell surrounded by scrolls from which rise several foliage scrolls adorned with small flowers. The curved inner line of the lintel is interrupted when it joins the jambs, forming two volutes with a palmette. The jambs are also carved with shells set in a concave cartouche at the top, and end with a finely executed acanthus leaf at the bottom. The polychrome richness of the marble enhances the sculpted ornamentation in an exceptional way.

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Napoleon III style mantel with modillion carved in Sea Green marble