A suite of bedroom furniture by Emile Gallé features in a sale at Drouot held by Daguerre on April 5 – a commission by the magistrate Henri Gaston de Bousquet de Florian (1866- 1944). He asked Gallé to furnish a bedroom for him and his future wife, having seen the designer’s Ombelle range of furniture on show in a Paris exhibition at the Pavillon de Marsan in 1903.
The bedroom suite – bed, armoire, small table and étagère all decorated with umbelliferous motifs – have remained with the family ever since. Pictured above is an étagère which is guided at €9000-12,000.