Maison Leleu
Height: 19.29" - Diameter: 35.43"
Vert de mer marble on steel and bronze base
This low guéridon dates from 1959, and features a round top of vert de mer marble supported centrally by five bronze legs. A photograph of this model is recorded in the Archives Leleu (inventory number AR.LEL.665) at Musée des Années Trente, Boulogne-Billancourt. A similar guéridon is featured in an original drawing, dated 1959, by Jean Leleu for the reading room of the luxury ocean liner, SS France.
Bibliography:
- Vivianne Jutheau, Jules et André Leleu, Paris, 1996. Swiveling armchair with a similar base featured page 160.
- Leleu, 50 ans de mobilier et de décoration 1920-1970, Somogy publisher, catalogue of the exhibition at Musée André Diligent – Piscine de Roubaix and Musée des Années Trente in 2007/2008. A very similar guéridon featured in an original drawing dated 1959 of Jean Leleu for the reading room of the French liner France, page 177.
- Françoise Siriex, Leleu décorateurs ensembliers, Monelle Hayot publisher, Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau, 2007. A very similar guéridon featured in an original drawing dated 1959 of Jean Leleu for the reading room of the French liner France page 305. Swiveling armchair with a similar base featured pages 330 and 333.
