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Interior Design

Design
1930s (made)
Artist/Maker
Robert Valance Et Cie
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
france (made)

Appartment de monsieur Albert Cahen a Metz. Project de decoration des agrandissements du rez-de-chaussee. Designs for the decorations of the ground floor extensions to an apartment. Plan and six elevation. Inscribed in ink with titles and L'echelle de 0.02 pour metre Valance et Cie Decorateurs. Paris. Inscribed in pencil with dimensions.

Object details

Categories
Interiors
Designs
Object type
Design
TitleInterior Design (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil on tracing paper on thin card
Pencil
Tracing Paper
Card
Drawn
Brief description
Office of Robert Valance et cie, French Interior Designs, 1930s
Physical description
Appartment de monsieur Albert Cahen a Metz. Project de decoration des agrandissements du rez-de-chaussee. Designs for the decorations of the ground floor extensions to an apartment. Plan and six elevation. Inscribed in ink with titles and L'echelle de 0.02 pour metre Valance et Cie Decorateurs. Paris. Inscribed in pencil with dimensions.
Dimensions
  • Height: 43cm
  • Width: 64cm
Style
20th Century
Production typeDesign
Object history
Robert Valance et cie were active from circa 1930 to circa 1938 but fee of this group of 299 designs are dated. The styles range from a sober modernism, via moderne to art deco at seem to vary with the tastes of the client, and often alternate proposal are included.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.869-1988

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Record createdNovember 24, 2008
Record URL
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