Set of Six 1940's Dining Chairs in Beech with Nickel Detail, Attributed to Rene Prou

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A beautiful set of six original French Art Deco tall back blonde wood and nickeled bronze dining chairs, attributed to … more A beautiful set of six original French Art Deco tall back blonde wood and nickeled bronze dining chairs, attributed to Rene Prou.
Tall elegant backs with curvilinear top crest and shield shape lower backrest, featuring elegant sculptural cabriole front legs and tapered splay back legs.
An inset nickeled bronze side bar flanks and accents the back rest, granting this chair a very unusual and unique style.
These chairs are skillfully designed, well crafted and of solid construction.
The cushion seats and backs in desert taupe/ mauve color naugahyde upholstery are in good vintage condition but are original and of the period.
The cushions are easily removable for re -upholstery if need be.
side chairs, office chairs, dining room, sycamore, light wood , Mid century, Modernist, French Modern, Industrial, Rene Prou, Jules Leleu, Andre Arbus.
violet brown, driftwood tones
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RENE PROU -- 1889-1948
Rene Prou was born in Nantes and educated in Paris. He was a furniture and a decorator who studied at the Ecole Bernard-Palissy in Paris.
Shortly thereafter, Prou joined the design house, Gouffé and became their chief designer. He was known as the first decorator of the modern taste.
Some of his achievements include:
1922 Oceanliner Paris
1922 – Paris to Deauville train (aka Train Bleu)
1923 – He showed at the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs.
1924 Oceanliner de Grasse
1925 –He designed the Chambre de Mademoiselle of Une Ambassade Française Pavilion a the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris with Eric Bagge.
1926 Oceanliner Ile-de-France
1928 He succeeded Paul Follot as design director in 1932 of the Pomone decorating department of Bon Marché department store.
1929 He began designing wrought-iron furniture produced by Edgar Brandt, Raymond Subes and other metalworkers.
1930s designed salon train carriages of the Istanbul Orient Express with Rene Lalique.
1935 Oceanliner Normandie
Additional work: dining room of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in NYC; board room of the Palace of the League of Nations, Geneva; Mitsubishi department store, Tokyo: and the oceanliner pier in LeHavre.
Taught at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs. less