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Dressing Table

1935 (made)
Artist/Maker
Société Industrielle D'Art (maker)
Heal & Son Ltd (retailers)
Block, Robert (designer)
Place of origin
Paris (made)

Dressing table, black lacquer, mirror glass and acrylic drawer handlesc. The back of the table and mirror is covered with imitation leather (rexine).

Object details

Categories
Furniture
Plastic
Object type
Dressing table
Parts
This object consists of 5 parts.

  • Dressing Table
  • Drawer
  • Drawer
  • Drawer
  • Drawer
Materials and techniques
Mirror glass, acrylic, rexine
Glass
Acrylic
Rexine
Lacquering
Brief description
Dressing table and mirror; glass, rexine and acrylic; Robert Block, France, 1935
Physical description
Dressing table, black lacquer, mirror glass and acrylic drawer handlesc. The back of the table and mirror is covered with imitation leather (rexine).
Style
Art Deco
Gallery label
(2006)
103-6

DRESSING TABLE
Designed by Robert Block (Swiss, active 1930s)
Made by the Société Industrielle d'Art, Paris for
Heal & Son, Ltd, London
Black lacquer, mirror glass and clear plastic
French, 1935

Block was the first director of the 'Athelia' studios, founded in 1928 and attached to the Paris department store, Aux Trois Quartiers. His furniture was marketed in London by Heals, and Waring and Gillow. He used lacquer, mirror glass and metal, to create witty 18th-century pastiches as well as furniture in the 'moderne' style.

W.36-1987
Bibliographic reference
Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art, 1935, p.99.
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
W.36:1 to 5-1987

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Record createdNovember 15, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129234/dressing-table-block-robert/
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