MATHIEU MATÉGOT (1910-2001) (AGENCEMENT DE) - Lot 320

MATHIEU MATÉGOT (1910-2001) (AGENCEMENT DE) "Set of elements from the layout for the attic of Dr Claoué's duplex apartment, Paris, 1961". Composed as follows: - Two radiator covers (located in the room housing the living-room furniture island). One in sheet metal with square perforations (5 x 5 mm) and white lacquer, forming a large L-shaped angle. Offsets for pipes. Height: 35 cm - Length: 235 cm - Depth: 20 cm The other in sheet metal with square perforations (3 x 3 mm) and white lacquer; opens with a trapdoor. Height: 54 cm - Length: 135 cm A grey lacquered perforated metal trapdoor is included. - Two radiator tops forming humidifiers; each with a compartmentalized lacquered sheet metal tray and a lacquered sheet metal facing strip featuring a decorative frieze with square perforations. One green-lacquered, the other white-lacquered. Provenance and history : Succession Claoué, Paris. In 1956, Mathieu Matégot decorated Dr. Claoué's clinic with furniture partly in lacquered or perforated metal. Included in this ensemble was a large desk with a base sheathed in black saddle-stitched leather and a large clear glass slab top. In 1961, five years after building his clinic, Dr Claoué naturally commissioned the decorator to arrange and decorate the attic rooms above his Paris apartment. Our design elements were located in these attics. Bibliography : Patrick Favardin - Mathieu Matégot - Éditions Galerie Matthieu Richard & Éditions Norma, Paris, 2014. The compartmentalized, white-lacquered radiator top in the attic, featured in an archive photograph reproduced on page 285. Expert : Emmanuel Eyraud