E. De saedeleer by Ivan Da Silva Bruhns

ref: 37567

10000-25000 EUR

265 cm
8' 8³/₈"
warp and weft: cotton
pile: wool
Europe
After 1935

Coulours may appear different on the website than in reality. All mentioned prices and sizes are indicative and not binding. Possibly some rugs that are still online, are not available anymore in the showroom.

Hand-knotted carpet made in the workshops of Elisabeth de Saedeleer.

The design is an exact replica of the carpet that Ivan da Silva Bruhns made for the flat "Trouville" on the liner "Normandie" (1935) and on which the name of Da Silva Bruhns clearly appears.

Da Silva Bruhns usually had his designs made in the weaving mills of Savigny.



There are no details of personal contacts between Elisabeth de Saedeleer and da Silva Bruhns. Since the design is a very faithful representation of the motif of the "Normandie" carpet, it is hard to imagine that the Saedeleer was not in possession of the design. One wonders how Elisabeth de Saedeleer got it, but the fact that she clearly has interwoven her signature in it, indicates that it is not a copy made with malicious intent.

Ivan Da Silva Bruhns

The sober and elegant carpets by Ivan Da Silva Bruhns (1881-1980) are among the most sought after from the Art Deco period. With their wide range of geometric or ethnic designs and their natural earth colours, they appealed to the greatest French decorators of the interwar period, such as Ruhlmann and Leleu.
Inspired by the 1922 exhibition in Marseille, he renewed the art of carpet making by being inspired by Oceanic,African and pre-Columbian art, before establishing the Savigny-sur-Orge factory.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE