Etienne Kohlmann modernist side table (#1117)
French Modernist Art Deco table by Etienne Kohlmann, circa 1930, in rosewood with ebonized detail. 27.5" diameter x 24" high ("box" on top is an additional 3" high.)
This table is unrestored in the photographs.
Etienne Kohlmann
(1903 – 1988)
Paris-born and educated designer and interior decorator, Etienne Kohlmann, studied at the Ecole Boulle in Paris until 1922. He was an accomplished cabinetmaker from an early age and joined a furniture maker in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris in 1922. From 1924-1938 he was director of the Studium-Louvre, decorating department of the Grand Magasins du Louvre. He began showing his work at the Salons of Societe des Artistes Decorateurs in 1924 and continued through the late 1930s, and at some of the Salon d’Automne from 1923, and the 1947 exhibition of Salon des Tuileries. For the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes he participated in the Studium-Louvre Pavilion, as well as at the 1931 Paris Exposition Coloniale.
He also designed and exhibited lighting at the 1934 and 1935 Salons of Light, at the 1937 Paris Exposition (with Eugene Printz) and at the New York World’s Fair in 1939.
Kohlmann’s work included deluxe interiors and the lounge of the 1926 oceanliner Ile-de-France, a number of Paris shop interiors for Mobilier National, and numerous private commissions. These included stores, hotels, restaurants and numerous private residences.
French Modernist Art Deco table by Etienne Kohlmann, circa 1930, in rosewood with ebonized detail. 27.5" diameter x 24" high ("box" on top is an additional 3" high.)
This table is unrestored in the photographs.
Etienne Kohlmann
(1903 – 1988)
Paris-born and educated designer and interior decorator, Etienne Kohlmann, studied at the Ecole Boulle in Paris until 1922. He was an accomplished cabinetmaker from an early age and joined a furniture maker in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris in 1922. From 1924-1938 he was director of the Studium-Louvre, decorating department of the Grand Magasins du Louvre. He began showing his work at the Salons of Societe des Artistes Decorateurs in 1924 and continued through the late 1930s, and at some of the Salon d’Automne from 1923, and the 1947 exhibition of Salon des Tuileries. For the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes he participated in the Studium-Louvre Pavilion, as well as at the 1931 Paris Exposition Coloniale.
He also designed and exhibited lighting at the 1934 and 1935 Salons of Light, at the 1937 Paris Exposition (with Eugene Printz) and at the New York World’s Fair in 1939.
Kohlmann’s work included deluxe interiors and the lounge of the 1926 oceanliner Ile-de-France, a number of Paris shop interiors for Mobilier National, and numerous private commissions. These included stores, hotels, restaurants and numerous private residences.
French Modernist Art Deco table by Etienne Kohlmann, circa 1930, in rosewood with ebonized detail. 27.5" diameter x 24" high ("box" on top is an additional 3" high.)
This table is unrestored in the photographs.
Etienne Kohlmann
(1903 – 1988)
Paris-born and educated designer and interior decorator, Etienne Kohlmann, studied at the Ecole Boulle in Paris until 1922. He was an accomplished cabinetmaker from an early age and joined a furniture maker in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris in 1922. From 1924-1938 he was director of the Studium-Louvre, decorating department of the Grand Magasins du Louvre. He began showing his work at the Salons of Societe des Artistes Decorateurs in 1924 and continued through the late 1930s, and at some of the Salon d’Automne from 1923, and the 1947 exhibition of Salon des Tuileries. For the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes he participated in the Studium-Louvre Pavilion, as well as at the 1931 Paris Exposition Coloniale.
He also designed and exhibited lighting at the 1934 and 1935 Salons of Light, at the 1937 Paris Exposition (with Eugene Printz) and at the New York World’s Fair in 1939.
Kohlmann’s work included deluxe interiors and the lounge of the 1926 oceanliner Ile-de-France, a number of Paris shop interiors for Mobilier National, and numerous private commissions. These included stores, hotels, restaurants and numerous private residences.