This first session of the year devoted to French Design invites visitors to (re)discover the exceptional wealth of French design from the 1930s to the early 1970s, through a selection of over 200 works - furniture, lighting and objets d'art - by the leading designers of the period.
From the rationalism of Jean Prouvé to the imagination of Pierre Paulin, from the minimalism of Jean-Michel Frank to the exuberance of Jean Royère, a number of different ideas of design are brought together in a common quest for aesthetic universalism.
The sale will also feature the work of ceramist André Aleth Masson, with around twenty pieces confirming his importance in the history of modern French ceramics.
