Details
En bronze et laiton, la spirale de l'escalier s'enroulant autour d'un fût central maintenant en partie supérieure le bras de lecture articulé, l'escalier fixé sur un guéridon au plateau circulaire reposant sur un piètement tripode, le plateau avec la plaque inscrite "E. BOULANGER."
H. de l’escalier : 34,5 cm. (1312 in.) ; H. totale sans l’abat-jour : 123 cm. (4812 in.) ; H. totale avec abat-jour : 158 cm. (6214 in.) ; D. plateau : 47 cm. (1812 in.)
Provenance
Collection Henri Klinger, Paris.
Literature
Bibliographie comparative :
S. D. Coffin, Made to scale. Staircase masterpieces. The Eugene & Clare Thaw gift, cat. exp. Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Museum, 2006, p. 18, no. 21 et p. 24, no. 30.
FURTHER DETAILS
A BRASS AND BRONZE STAIRCASE MODEL, BY ÉMILE BOULANGER, FRENCH, NANTES, EARLY 20th CENTURY, ON A LATER TABLE AND MOUNTED AS A LAMP
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Cet étonnant escalier est rare de par ses matériaux, le laiton et le bronze. Il se rapproche des modèles en fer faisant partie de la collection Eugene Thaw conservés aujourd'hui au Cooper-Hewitt Museum de New York.

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