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Coty House Entrance Grille by Charles Piguet, Art Deco, 1925

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Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
Wrought iron entrance door - Wrought iron - Art déco - XX<sup>th</sup> C.
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Class Ironworks
Type WROUGHT IRON ENTRANCE DOOR
Style ART DÉCO
Period XXth C.
Area LYON
Material WROUGHT IRON
Height 129.92 in
Width 85.83 in
Depth 1.97 in

Description

A unique piece commissioned by the Coty house to Charles Piguet (1887-1942), ironmonger of Lyonnais art, for his stores at 16 Place Bellecour in Lyon. This pair of doors stamped PIGUET LYON was presented at the exhibition of Decorative and Modern Industrial Arts in 1925 in Paris.

The world-renowned perfumery Coty opens its first stores on rue de la Boétie and place Vendôme in Paris, then branches in Moscow, New York, London and Buenos Aires. François Coty calls on the glassmakers René Lalique and Baccarat, the decorator Léon Bakst and the painter Jean Helleu among others to magnify his perfumes.

The pair of doors has a fountain, in central pattern, capped with a bouquet of flowers in a basket braided accosted with a rose and a flower of camellia. Its elegant bronze handles are linked rushes. The 122cm tall imposts also feature a central fountain, flanked by six panels with framed bouquets of flowers.
They have two opening systems, the main with a passage of twice 109 cm, 218 cm wide for a height of 330 cm, which could be easily reduced to 208 cm, and by two enclosed pedestrian doors 75.5 cm wide by 205.5 cm high.

The whole is originally nickel-plated, traces of residual paint and slight oxidation in places.
Some frames of the brass glazing are missing or to be restored.

Bibliography:
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- Retail and door of the Coty stores in Lyon, La ferronnerie Moderne (2nd Series), at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, by Henri Clouzot, curator of the Galliera museum, edited by Charles Moreau in Paris.
- The entrance gate of the Coty house. Ironwork of the day by Gabriel Henriot, curator of the Forney library, Paris, Librairie Générale de l'Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs, Ch. Massin & Cie, publishers, 1929.