Elizabeth GAROUSTE (born 1946) Mattia BONETTI (born 1952) - Lot 311

Elizabeth GAROUSTE (born 1946) Mattia BONETTI (born 1952) Maharadjah" sofa, model created in 1988, with carved wooden structure entirely sheathed in cream linen with applied decoration of small branches in gilded bronze. Removable cut-out cushions entirely covered in red velvet (stains, small snags, tears). Height 104 cm - Length 215 cm - Depth 90 cm Provenance: Galerie Néotu, Paris. Bibliography : - Jacqueline du Pasquier, Mattia Bonetti and Elizabeth Garouste, catalog of the eponymous exhibition held from May 10 to June 30, 1985 at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Bordeaux, model referenced by a gouache on white paper reproduced in the catalog (n.p.). - Stephen Calloway, François Baudot Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Garouste et Bonetti, Michel Aveline Éditeur, Pamplona, 1990, p. 158 for a drawing of the model. - Elisabeth Vedrenne, Elizabeth Garouste Mattia Bonetti, La Lettre volée, Brussels, 2001, variant of our model referenced and reproduced on p. 78. - Chloé Braunstein-Kriegel, Les années Staudenmeyer, 25 ans de design en France, Éditions Norma, Paris, 2009, model referenced and reproduced p. 364. - Jacqueline du Pasquier Jean-Jacques Wattel, Mattia Bonetti - Volume I, Éditions Louvre Victoire, Paris, 2015, variant of our model and its drawing reproduced pp. 16-17. The buyer of this lot can pick it up at the Magasinage de l'Hôtel Drouot.