Dressing Table
1935 (made)
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| Place of origin |
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
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| Object type | |
| Parts | This object consists of 5 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Mirror glass, acrylic, rexine |
| 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 | |
| Gallery label | 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(2006) |
| Bibliographic reference | Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art, 1935, p.99. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | W.36:1 to 5-1987 |
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| Record created | November 15, 2006 |
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