France, 1990s
H 108 x W 47 x D 41 cm — seat height 45 cm
Wrought iron and gold leaf
Very good condition
€2,100
The back does not continue the seat: it stands apart from it, carried by a single rod, like a piece of armour raised on a stand. Two triangular plates spread out on either side of this rod and end in two curled horns. The seat is a square iron sheet inlaid with gold, on three legs joined by an arc.
Jean-Jacques Argueyrolles, born in 1954, belongs to the generation of ironworkers who, in the 1980s and 1990s, took wrought iron out of pastiche to treat it as a material to be sculpted. His seats belong less to furniture than to statuary.
The two faces of the back are not worked in the same way: pitted and gilded on one side, cross-hatched with the chisel on the other. The chair is thus meant to be seen from both sides, which allows it to stand in the middle of a room rather than against a wall.
