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Une Exceptionnelle Collection Mise En Scene Par Emilio Terry Jeudi 15 Septembre 2016 Christie's Paris[151] pp. w 208 lots Christie's Paris 2016 10 1 2" x 8 1 4" Fine Scroll Down for (13) Additional Scans: Emilio Terry is one of those talents that set stylemongers antennae aquiver. The Havana born, Paris bred architect and designer (18901969) took France by storm in the 1930s with his daring, neo Romantic, and often Surrealistic interpretations of 18th century neoclassicism. I once stayed at a 1950s Terry country house that took the form of a giant
[151] pp.
w/ 208 lots
Christie's Paris
2016
10 1/2" x 8 1/4"
Fine
Scroll Down for (13) Additional Scans:
Emilio Terry is one of those talents that set stylemongers’ antennae aquiver. The Havana-born, Paris-bred architect and designer (1890–1969) took France by storm in the 1930s with his daring, neo-Romantic, and often Surrealistic interpretations of 18th-century neoclassicism. I once stayed at a 1950s Terry country house that took the form of a giant broken pediment; Terry’s extravagant follies for Carlos de Beistegui’s Château de Groussay estate are renowned, and his furnishings, from chairs to carpets, were invariably fantastical. So when a Terry project hits the radar, the fashionable world takes notice.
On September 15, Christie’s Paris is selling the contents of a rue de Presbourg mansion that Terry renovated and decorated in the mid-1960s. None of the offerings are known to have been designed by Terry, but the collective chic is clearly his, from a Louis XVI bureau plat by Philippe-Claude Montigny (estimated at $337,978–$563,297) to an Egyptian-influenced Louis XVI mantel clock ($78,862–$112,659).
The star of the sale is a copy of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s 1872 tinted-plaster ecstatic sculpture Génie de la Danse, estimated to bring in as much as $1.12 million. Terry selected it to be the centerpiece of the mansion’s entrance vestibule (shown above), which he encircled with horizontally scored plaster walls. The hypnotic incisions, giving the space a memorable sense of motion and monumentality, were inspired by Terry’s visit to a National Library of France exhibition in 1965, about the wildly inventive work of 18th-century architects Claude Nicolas Ledoux and Étienne-Louis Boullée.
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