Alfred Porteneuve two pairs of club chairs (#1579)
French Art Deco two pairs of club chair by Alfred Porteneuve, circa 1938. Signed. 32” wide x 33” deep x 33” high. Unrestored in the photographs.
ALFRED PORTENEUVE
(1896 – 1949)
Trained in architecture at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, Porteneuve is probably better known as the nephew and collaborator of the eminent French Art Deco designer, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann.
With Ruhlmann he participated in the design of l’Hotel du Collectionneur pavilion at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris. A fine designer on his own, Porteneuve opened his own workshop after Ruhlmann’s death in 1933. He favored fruitwoods, laminates and metal, sometimes collaborating with lacquerist Jean Dunand.
Porteneuve decorated and furnished numerous private residences as well as commercial offices, government installations, and interiors of the 1939 oceanliner Pasteur.
ALFRED PORTENEUVE
BORN 19 JANUARY 1896
Government-certified architect. Student of MM. Expert, Gromort, Patout. Collaborator of Ruhlmann, from 1921 to 1933. Member of the SAD Committee. Veteran.
Participated in the decoration of the Ile-de-France liner; of the Hotel du Collectionneur 1925; of diverse of the Paris Chamber of Commerce; from the Minister's Office to the Colonial Museum, etc.
French Art Deco two pairs of club chair by Alfred Porteneuve, circa 1938. Signed. 32” wide x 33” deep x 33” high. Unrestored in the photographs.
ALFRED PORTENEUVE
(1896 – 1949)
Trained in architecture at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, Porteneuve is probably better known as the nephew and collaborator of the eminent French Art Deco designer, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann.
With Ruhlmann he participated in the design of l’Hotel du Collectionneur pavilion at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris. A fine designer on his own, Porteneuve opened his own workshop after Ruhlmann’s death in 1933. He favored fruitwoods, laminates and metal, sometimes collaborating with lacquerist Jean Dunand.
Porteneuve decorated and furnished numerous private residences as well as commercial offices, government installations, and interiors of the 1939 oceanliner Pasteur.
ALFRED PORTENEUVE
BORN 19 JANUARY 1896
Government-certified architect. Student of MM. Expert, Gromort, Patout. Collaborator of Ruhlmann, from 1921 to 1933. Member of the SAD Committee. Veteran.
Participated in the decoration of the Ile-de-France liner; of the Hotel du Collectionneur 1925; of diverse of the Paris Chamber of Commerce; from the Minister's Office to the Colonial Museum, etc.
French Art Deco two pairs of club chair by Alfred Porteneuve, circa 1938. Signed. 32” wide x 33” deep x 33” high. Unrestored in the photographs.
ALFRED PORTENEUVE
(1896 – 1949)
Trained in architecture at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, Porteneuve is probably better known as the nephew and collaborator of the eminent French Art Deco designer, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann.
With Ruhlmann he participated in the design of l’Hotel du Collectionneur pavilion at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris. A fine designer on his own, Porteneuve opened his own workshop after Ruhlmann’s death in 1933. He favored fruitwoods, laminates and metal, sometimes collaborating with lacquerist Jean Dunand.
Porteneuve decorated and furnished numerous private residences as well as commercial offices, government installations, and interiors of the 1939 oceanliner Pasteur.
ALFRED PORTENEUVE
BORN 19 JANUARY 1896
Government-certified architect. Student of MM. Expert, Gromort, Patout. Collaborator of Ruhlmann, from 1921 to 1933. Member of the SAD Committee. Veteran.
Participated in the decoration of the Ile-de-France liner; of the Hotel du Collectionneur 1925; of diverse of the Paris Chamber of Commerce; from the Minister's Office to the Colonial Museum, etc.