Storage cabinet in blond walnut, circa 1940
- Date
- Circa 1940
- Technique
- Blond walnut veneer
- Dimensions
- H. 160, W. 206.5, D. 47 cm
On view at the showroom, 1 rue des Bons Enfants, Marché L'Usine, stand 3, 93400 Saint-Ouen. Delivery in France and worldwide.
Download the sheet (PDF)Storage cabinet in blond walnut veneer, opening in the centre with five drawers beneath an open niche, flanked on each side by two doors with incised lozenge decoration enclosing shelves
Circa 1940
H. 160 × W. 206.5 × D. 47 cm
About Jean Pascaud
Born in Rouen in 1903, Jean Pascaud graduated as an engineer from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1924. Encouraged by his father-in-law, the architect Auguste Bluysen, he turned away from an industrial career and drew his first furniture in 1927. He went on to exhibit at the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
His furniture rests on balanced proportions and clean lines, carried by veneers chosen for their figure: walnut, sycamore, Macassar ebony, rosewood and mahogany. Parchment, shagreen, brass inlay and bronze sabots complete his vocabulary. In 1934 he delivered the "Dieppe" suite for the liner Normandie, and later worked on the Pasteur. In 1937 Jean Zay, Minister of National Education, entrusted him with his office at the Hôtel de Rochechouart. The same year, the International Exposition awarded him a Grand Prix.
In the 1940s Pascaud stood among the advocates of a renewed classicism, alongside André Arbus and Jacques Adnet, and Mobilier et Décoration devoted a study to him in 1945. After the war he fitted out the French legations in Sweden and Czechoslovakia, the French embassy in Mexico City, and a state apartment at the Château de Rambouillet, then the residence of President Vincent Auriol.
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