Art Deco/Moderne Movement Carpet
Designed by Paule Leleu (1906-1987), French, c1938.
19ft 2in x 13ft 10in : 585cm x 422 cm
Provenance: Commissioned for the Institute of Dentists/Eastman Foundation and was originally in the students study room in Paris.
Jules Leleu (1883 – 1961), her father, the artist designer and head of the family decoration business, taught her to be a designer. With his contracting carpets from Ivan Da Silva Bruhns, Paule became an apprentice with his father’s friend. She learned to design carpets and her early work shows the influence of her master Bruhns both in color and design motifs.
In 1936, the contract between Jules Leleu and Bruhns ended and the following year, Paule joined her father and designed all the firm’s carpets, which were under her own style.
Her commissions ranged from palaces (Elysee Palace), to the ocean liners (Atlantic, Normandy, and Pierre Loti). Examples of her carpets are in The Mobilier National and the Musee d’art Moderne in Paris and numerous American museums.
Literature: Rene Chavance, Jules Leleu et le retour au décor, Mobilier & Decoration magazine, 1983, illustrated p393.
Price : P.O.A.
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