Pierre Chareau
Depth closed: 15.3 in.
Depth opened: 41.7 in.
Height: 24.8 in.
Further images
One of Pierre Chareau’s most important clients was the Bernheim-Dalsace family.
They called upon his talents to realize their most ambitious projects, such as Helena Bernheim’s Coromandel salon and the Beauvallon Golf clubhouse. However, it is the second generation of Anne Bernheim and Jean Dalsace whose commission would enter the history books. The story began in 1919, when the young couple moved into 195 boulevard Saint-Germain. Pierre Chareau was once again called upon to decorate the residence with his most innovative creations. In 1925, when an adjacent land parcel came up for sale, the designer persuaded his clients to purchase it and thus the infamous Maison de Verre was born. By 1933, construction of the revolutionary villa was complete, the avant-garde interior fusing pieces from the original house with many new creations.
Designed in 1923 (just like the iconic Religieuse lamp), our table éventail was created especially for the Bernheim-Dalsace couple. Decisively modern, this elegant, cubist piece was lovingly placed in the grand salon of the Maison de Verre.
One-of-a-kind in its size and materials, this table is undoubtably one of Chareau’s modern masterpieces.
Provenance
Bernheim-Dalsace Collection, Maison de Verre, Paris
Exhibitions
A variation of the Fan table with rounded border was exhibited at Salon des Artistes Décorateur, Paris, June 1924.
Literature
Our model:
Un hôtel particulier à Paris, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, J. Lepage, Paris, Nov.-Dec. 1933, p.5.
La Maison de Verre de Pierre Chareau, in Art et Décoration, R. Cogniat, Paris, February 1934, p.50, 54-55. Portraits croisés, La Maison de verre, Dalsace / Chareau, M. Vellay, Éditions du Regard, Paris, 2021, p.15, 247-250.
Variation of the Fan table with rounded boarder:
Art et Décoration, Paris, 1924 p. 179.
L’entrée du logis, L’Art Vivant, Paris, 15 February 1926, Ed. Tisserand, n. 28, p. 148.
Pierre Chareau, Architecte-meublier, M. Vellay and K. Frampton, 1883-1950, Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1984, pp. 81, 96, 105, 118, 211, 320.