Robert Bonfils for Bianchini-Férier
Further images
"Venise" silk-cotton furnishing sample designed by Robert Bonfils and woven by Bianchini-Férier. Design of modernist trophies with crossed guitars interspersed with stylized canals, gondolas, the Campanile of San Marco, and the arches of the Doge's Palace in Venice.
This fabric was used as draperies in the Salon de la maison Lanvin in the Pavillon de l'Élegance at the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes. See "La Pavillon de l'Élegance," La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (July 1925): pp. 312, 313, 315 (ill.); "Les soieries modernes de Bianchini et Férier," Mobilier et décoration d'intérieur (February 1925), p. 24; "La mode et les modes," Les Modes (September 1925), pp. 5-10; "I 'manequins' artistici," Lidel no. 7 (1925): 32; and Papini, Le Arti d'Oggi (Milan & Rome: Bestetti & Tumminnelli, c. 1930), pl. CDX, fig. 758. Also published in Fanelli, Il Tessuto Art Deco e degli Anni Trenta (1986), fig. 58. Lengths are in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (1937-1-12), and MAD Paris (25980).
Excellent condition. Finished fabric sample.
Provenance
From the Bianchini-Férier archiveJoin our mailing list
* denotes required fields
We will process the personal data you have supplied to communicate with you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe or change your preferences at any time by clicking the link in our emails.