IMPORTANT OAK BAR CABINET BY MAXIME OLD
France, circa 1947
 
Important oak bar cabinet by Maxime Old with 6 doors
Branded signature to reverse: “Maxime Old”
 
Literature Badetz, Yves, “Maxime Old: Architecte-Décorateur”, Paris: Éditions Norma, 2000, pp. 130-32 (for a discussion of the Marly commission), pp. 146-47 (the present lot illustrated) Yves Badetz, chief curator at the Orsay Museum, in charge of decorative arts, confesses that “The emotions you feel when looking at Maxime Old’s creations are intense. His thoughtful esthetics freely associates the values of the rational of Bauhaus with Ruhlmann's demand for perfection. His talent is to design the refined outlines anticipating the third millennium." Fourcart, Bruno and Jean-Louis Gaillemin, “Les Decorateurs des années 40”, Paris: Éditions Norma, 1999, p. 164 (the present lot illustrated) Bony, Anne, “Furniture & Interiors of the 1940s”, Paris: Flammarion, 2003, p. 71 (the present lot illustrated)