“In the 80s, everything was Design. Faced with this world of perfect industrial production, I had an immense need for poetry, fantasy and… a certain imperfection! It was in the traditional techniques of bronze, plaster, hammered iron and ceramics that I found the poetry and daring that are so essential to me. Elisabeth Delacarte
Gallery owner Elisabeth Delacarte has chosen Artcurial, France’s leading auction house, to disperse the contents of her Paris apartment on June 18. This monographic sale celebrates a key figure in the French decorative arts who, with her Avant Scène gallery, has promoted a whole generation of designers who are now recognized worldwide. Artcurial’s design department thus offers a new “collector’s sale”, following in the footsteps of the Modernist House sale in May 2012, or the L’usage des jours 365 céramiques sale devoted to Guillaume Bardet last February.
The sale Un intérieur parisien: le goût d’Elisabeth Delacarte is an opportunity for Artcurial to offer French production from the 80s, rare on the international art market. A veritable history of Parisian style at the end of the 20th century, the sale will feature unique pieces, limited series and prototypes created for the gallery owner. Many of the pieces are by the generation of designers discovered and promoted by Elisabeth Delacarte at Avant-Scène. Some of these designers, such as Garouste et Bonetti, Mark Brazier-Jones, André Dubreuil, Hervé Van der Straeten, Franck Evennou and Hubert Le Gall, have since achieved international recognition.
As design historian Jean Louis Gaillemin, who wrote the preface to the catalog, sums up, these objects “testify to a taste that reveals itself as much in large pieces as in small objects, vehicles of poetry in everyday life.”
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