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It could be straight from an episode of Poirot. This smoking room, Les Palmiers (1930-36), designed by Jean Dunand for the Parisian apartment of Mademoiselle Collette Aboucaya on rue de Monceau, is the height of Art Deco decadence. And, though we are now in the age of vaping not smoking, it is now coming up for sale at Phillips in London on 4 May, estimated at £1.5m to £2m. In 1925, Dunand had been invited to design a smoking room for the French Embassy Pavilion at the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes Aboucaya. For the first time, he used lacquer panels on the walls and his lacquer designs for the car interiors of the coachbuilder Henri Binder were also shown at the exhibition. Aboucaya, whose father and uncle had recently bought Binder s firm, was impressed by Dunand s work and commissioned him to design this smoking room for her own apartment. As the name suggests, the room s design evokes stylised palm trees, lux ....
Henry Binder (Courtesy photo) Shelter Island High School graduate Henry Binder has been named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2020 semester at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis. He is a 2020 Island graduate, now pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Arts and Sciences. To make the Dean’s List, students must have earned at least 12 credits for the fall 2020 semester and have no disqualifying grades. For the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate students must have at least a 3.7 to be named to the Dean’s List. ....
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