"Les Lalanne" 2010 SALMON, Béatrice
$500
SALMON, Béatrice
[143] pp.
Les Arts Decoratifs
2010
8 1/8" x 11 1/4"
Fine
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Claude (1925-2019) and François Xavier (1927-2008) Lalanne are known for having made nature and animals the supports of their creations. Often hybrid, the works that populate their universe astonish, amuse, and are rich in a poetry imbued with surrealism and guided by the play of words, forms and materials.
Nature offers both of them an infinity of forms that give rise to furniture, tableware or even jewellery: sheep form seats or benches, a hippopotamus opens to become a bathtub, a baboon becomes a fireplace, foliage makes up a throne... The works very early on seduced prestigious collectors such as the Rothschilds, the Noailles and Yves Saint Laurent.
This book places the Lalannes' work in the history of sculpture and the decorative arts, in line with a French tradition that likes to associate these two approaches and that they brought to its apogee.