Living-room suite
3rd quarter 20th century
Object: Living-room suite
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Tobia Scarpa (1935-null) | Designer
- Title:
- Living-room suite
- Date:
- 3rd quarter 20th century
- Collection:
- Arts and Crafts
- Domain:
- Furniture
- Designation:
- Piece of furniture
- Description:
- Luxembourg’s first design furniture boutiques opened their doors in the 1950s. One of them was Chez Rob, which was established in Hollerich in 1958. It was here, in 1966, that Esch-sur-Alzette pharmacist Joseph Pauly (1904-1977) bought this ensemble created in 1960 by Afra (1937-2011) and Tobia (born in 1935) Scarpa and manufactured by Gavina in Italy: a sofa and two leather armchairs on bases of padouk, a kind of exotic wood. The Formica® and teakwood three-door sideboard was also purchased from Chez Rob. Unable to find a coffee table to his liking, Pauly had commissioned the Esch-sur-Alzette marble workshop Focant to produce a table in green Aquila and Montericco marble which he designed himself. The living room set is an example of what was then called International Style. At the time, very few people in Luxembourg were enthusiastic about this type of furniture: on the one hand, it was rather expensive, and on the other, it did not please the dominant tastes of the time. It is true that pharmacist Pauly and his wife were particularly modern for their time; they had also decorated their home with several abstract School of Paris paintings, some of which are now exhibited at the MNAHA. The artworks in the reconstituted living room – paintings by Jean Le Moal (The storm, 1961) and Léon Zack (Untitled, 1962), and Balthasar Lobo’s sculpture of a female torso – testify to the Paulys’ taste for contemporary fine and decorative art.
- Credit:
- Donated by Ms Nancy Pauly
- Location:
- Nationalmusée | Wiltheim Wing | Étage 1 | Salle 17
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Copyright:
-
Work: In Copyright
Image(s): CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) | © MNAHA / Photo: Tom Lucas
Metadata: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
- Photographer:
- Tom Lucas
Object: Living-room suite
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Tobia Scarpa (1935-null) | Designer
- Title:
- Living-room suite
- Date:
- 3rd quarter 20th century
- Collection:
- Arts and Crafts
- Domain:
- Furniture
- Designation:
- Piece of furniture
- Description:
- Luxembourg’s first design furniture boutiques opened their doors in the 1950s. One of them was Chez Rob, which was established in Hollerich in 1958. It was here, in 1966, that Esch-sur-Alzette pharmacist Joseph Pauly (1904-1977) bought this ensemble created in 1960 by Afra (1937-2011) and Tobia (born in 1935) Scarpa and manufactured by Gavina in Italy: a sofa and two leather armchairs on bases of padouk, a kind of exotic wood. The Formica® and teakwood three-door sideboard was also purchased from Chez Rob. Unable to find a coffee table to his liking, Pauly had commissioned the Esch-sur-Alzette marble workshop Focant to produce a table in green Aquila and Montericco marble which he designed himself. The living room set is an example of what was then called International Style. At the time, very few people in Luxembourg were enthusiastic about this type of furniture: on the one hand, it was rather expensive, and on the other, it did not please the dominant tastes of the time. It is true that pharmacist Pauly and his wife were particularly modern for their time; they had also decorated their home with several abstract School of Paris paintings, some of which are now exhibited at the MNAHA. The artworks in the reconstituted living room – paintings by Jean Le Moal (The storm, 1961) and Léon Zack (Untitled, 1962), and Balthasar Lobo’s sculpture of a female torso – testify to the Paulys’ taste for contemporary fine and decorative art.
- Credit:
- Donated by Ms Nancy Pauly
- Location:
- Nationalmusée | Wiltheim Wing | Étage 1 | Salle 17
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Copyright:
-
Work: In Copyright
Image(s): CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) | © MNAHA / Photo: Tom Lucas
Metadata: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
- Photographer:
- Tom Lucas