Serge Roche, Camille Roche & Gilbert Poillerat, Pair of chairs

Serge Roche (1898-1988), Camille Roche (1894-1948) & Gilbert Poillerat (1902-1988)

Pair of chairs
circa 1934

Pair of chairs standing on a baluster-shape wrought iron base.
The octogonal seat is upholstered with a clear fabric as weel asthe trapezoidal back.
Each back is topped with a painted glass medallion set within a wrought-iron ring Serge Roche designed these chairs in 1934 for the library-winter dining room of his Parisian apartment.
The artist called upon the painter Camille Roche to paint the glass medallions and the ironworker Gilbert Poillerat to create the wrought iron struc-ture.

Height 124 cm (48 7/8 in) - Width 34,5 cm (15 1/2 in) - Depth 52 cm (20 1/2 in)

Provenance :
- Serge Roche collection, created in 1934 for his apartment in Paris.
- Private collection, Paris, acquired directly from the artist’s family.
Acquired from the above by the Chastel-Maréchal gallery.

Literature :
- « Les fleurs dans le décor de la maison », M. Merciériondel, Plaisirs de France, Décembre 1937, our models reproduced p. 48.
- « Une salle à manger baroque par Serge Roche », Art et Industrie, Février 1946, our models reproduced p. 10-11.
- « Meubles et décor des années 40 », Anne Bony, Paris, 2002, our models reproduced p. 76.
- « Serge Roche », Patrick Mauriès, Paris, 2006, our models reproduced p. 93 and 107