Les Palmiers

A look at Les Palmiers ahead of its auction at Phillips Gallery in London. Les Palmiers is a room designed by Jean Dunand in the 1930s for his client Mademoiselle Colette Aboucaya, as her exotic, luxurious, and painstakingly crafted smoking room, for her apartments on the rue de Monceau in Paris. The room is an iconic piece of Art Deco design, entirely clad in wooden panels lacquered in silver and gold tones, and lustrous black metal. The panels feature geometric stripes and swirls, creating an abstract, cubist impression of a forest of palm trees.
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