Private collection, The Hague
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2010
FOR THE DOUCET EXAMPLE
Jean-François Revel, 'Un temple de l'art moderne, l'appartement de M.J.D.', Femina, January 1925, p. 30 for the canapé in situ
André Joubin, 'Le studio de Jacques Doucet', L’Illustration, May 1930, p. 17 for the canapé in situ
Jean-François Revel, 'Jacques Doucet, couturier et collectionneur', L'Œil, December 1961, p. 47 for the canapé in situ
Pierre Kjellberg, 'Art Déco: Les artistes d'avant-garde Marcel Coard, Djo Bourgeois', La Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot, 12 December 1980, p. 40
Pierre Kjellberg, Art Deco, les Maitres du Mobilier, Paris, 1981, p. 11 for the canapé in situ
Alistair Duncan, Art deco furniture, the French designers, New York, 1984, p. 21, fig. 7
François Chapon, Mystère et splendeurs de Jacques Doucet 1985-1929, Paris, 1984, p. 224 for the canapé in situ
Frederick R. Brandt, 'Art Deco: Patrons and Designers', Apollo, December 1985, p. 461, figs. 2-3
Frederick R. Brandt, Late 19th and Early 20th Century Decorative Arts: The Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, 1985, p. 217, no. 88
Évelyne Possémé, Le Mobilier Français 1910-1930, Paris, 1999, p. 19 for the canapé in situ, p. 185
Victor Arwas, Art Deco, New York, 2000, p. 80
Alistair Duncan, Art Deco, Encyclopédie des arts décoratifs des années vingt et trente, Paris, 2010, p. 10
Amélie Marcilhac, Marcel Coard Décorateur, Paris, 2012, p. 62, p. 63 for the canapé in situ
Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Félix Marcilhac, Passion Art Déco, Paris, 2014, p. 73 for the canapé in situ
Jared Goss, French Art Deco, New York, 2014, p. 135 for the canapé in situ
Jacques Doucet-Yves Saint Laurent-Vivre Pour l'Art, exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 2015, pp. 30 for the canapé in situ, pp. 66-67
French • 1889 - 1974
Like many other furniture designers of the Art Deco period, Marcel Coard began his career catering to the traditional tastes of his customers, only making unique and creative pieces for certain clients. His furniture design transcended the historicism and modernism that dominated the Art Deco style, and ultimately reflects the concepts and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century avant-garde as much as it does a particular decorating style.
Coard is most famous for the furniture he designed for the great couturier and patron of the arts Jacques Doucet. Widely published, Doucet's interior has come to define modern collecting practices and in particular was a formative inspiration for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé. Coard’s work was re-discovered in the historic 1972 auction of Doucet's collection, which achieved previously unrealized results in the still nascent Art Deco market.
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