Poplar, painted iron
Height: 35.5" - Width: 15.25 - Depth: 17.25"
One of Belgium's leading Art Nouveau designers, Gustave Serrurier-Bovy began producing his Silex series across a range of inexpensive furnishings in 1902, guided by a central belief that everyone should have access to beautiful furniture. The series comprised several ready-to-assemble kits. This chair is created from a 1905 design.
Plaque: Serrurier-Bovy Paris Nice
Bibliography:
For illustrations of a similar model, see:
Watelet, Jacques-Grégoire. Serrurier-Bovy. Brussels: Ateliers Vokaer, 1986. 87, 92.
For an illustration of this identical model, see:
Bigot du Mesnil du Buisson, Françoise & Etienne du Mesnil du Buisson. Serrurier-Bovy un créateur, précurseur. Dijon: Editions-Faton, 2008. 93-168.
An identical chair is kept in the collection of Musée d’Orsay in Paris (# RF MO OAO 2019 3 1) and comes from the personal collection of Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, furnishing originally his cottage L’Aube built in Cointe-Liège (Belgium). Another is found in the Carnegie Museum of Art.
