Jules Leleu

This modernist cabinet in violet wood retains its original central glass églomisé panel depicting lilies, a butterfly, and a fish, and rests on a chrome-plated metal base with curving, ribbon-like legs.  A drawing by Anatole Kasskoff (1898-1978) dated 1935 (inventory number 2006.1.1) depicting the model of sideboard is recorded in the Leleu archives at Musée des Années Trente in Boulogne-Billancourt. 

Our cabinet is also associated with the 1937 large four-door armoire kept in the collection of Musée des Années Trente (inventory number 2017.0.307), where collaborators for the églomisé mirror panel and the metal base are named as Anatole Kaskoff and Raymond Subes.

Model #2342

Signed: JLeleu

Exhibited:

XXVIth Salon des Artistes Décorateurs 1936 

=Bibliography:

Art et Décoration, May 1936. Same model shown at Salon des Artistes Décorateurs 1936 page 178. 

Mobilier et Décoration, June 1936. Same model shown at Salon des Artistes Décorateurs 1936 page 209. 

L’Art Vivant, July 1936. Same model shown at Salon des Artistes Décorateurs 1936 page 150. 

Plaisir de France, July 1936. Same model shown at Salon des Artistes Décorateurs 1936 page 24. 

L’Amour de l’art, #2, March 1938. Same model featured in an advertising for Leleu page 104.

Mobilier et Décoration, November 1938. Same model featured page 386.