Founded by Anne-Sophie Duval in 1972, the year of the historic sale of furniture by the great collector Jacques Doucet, the gallery at 5 quai Malaquais, opposite the Louvre, was one of the finest addresses of the time for the Art Deco.
She still is thanks to her daughter Julie Blum, with an unparalleled eye and a strong temperament, who took over this brand.
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To pay tribute to her mother who passed away prematurely from cancer, she is today publishing a book on the gallery's 50th anniversary, illustrated with iconic pieces by Pierre Chareau, Jean Dunand, Armand-Albert Rateau, Eileen Gray or Jean- Michael Frank.
But not only.
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The forgotten objects
" of the sales catalogs that Julie talks about, she went to look for them in the boxes of archives overflowing from the libraries.
By the audacity of the forms, their inventiveness, their sensuality, they are also the spirit of the house.
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Julie was around 6 years old when her mother - daughter of Yvette Barran, ex-actress, and actor Jacques-Henri Duval who had a boutique…
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