Casa Krieger
Un gran e impresionante par de espejos de estilo imperio
£95,000
A Large and Impressive Pair of Empire Style Gilt-Bronze and Burr, Amboyna Mirrors, By Maison Krieger. Each mirror is over 328 cm high (129 inches) and...
Dimensiones
Height: 328 cm (130 in)Width: 160 cm (63 in)
Depth: 14 cm (6 in)
Descripción
A Large and Impressive Pair of Empire Style Gilt-Bronze and Burr, Amboyna Mirrors, By Maison Krieger.
Each mirror is over 328 cm high (129 inches) and has a scrolled cresting centred by an anthemion above an arched mirror plate centred by a gilt-bronze Apollo mask. The uprights are embellished with very finely cast gilt-bronze stiff-leaf capitals.
These large and magnificent mirrors formerly formed part of the furnishing of the elegant Empire style dining room at the Palacio Ferreyra, Córdoba, Argentina.
France, Circa 1913-16.
Fecha
Circa 1913-1916
Origen
Francia
Medio
Amboyna
Antoine Krieger together with his brother Nicolas launched Maison Krieger in 1826 at 17 rue Saint-Nicolas, Paris, producing and retailing fine quality furniture.
In 1850 the firm was re-formed as Antoine Krieger et Cie. When Antoine Krieger died in 1856, his son-in-law began running the company and decided to change the name to Cosse-Racault et Cie. Finally, in 1880 the name was changed again to Krieger, Damon et Cie when the firm merged with Damon et Colin, and was then located at 74 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine.
Maison Krieger exhibited at the 1849 Exposition des Produits de l‚’Industrie in Paris and at the Universal Exhibitions of 1851 in London and 1855, again in Paris. At the 1851 Great Exhibition in London Krieger were awarded a medal for an exhibition oak sideboard made for a client from the Ottoman Empire. Maison Krieger created numerous furniture styles, and the firm exhibited at all the major exhibitions of the nineteenth century up to and including, the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle.
Maison Krieger is recorded as being a very active client of François Linke and occasionally the firm’s label can be found on Linke pieces.
Bibliography:
Ledoux-Lebard, Denise. Les Ébénistes du XIXe siècle, Les Editions de l‚’Amateur, (Paris), 1984; pp. 396.
Dr. Martín Francisco Ferreyra Cabezón (1859- 1918), Palacio Ferreyra, Córdoba, Argentina.
The Ferreyra Palace in Córdoba was commissioned by Dr. Martín Ferreyra, a well known surgeon who studied in Buenos Aires, France and England. Ferreyra had held many different public positions and was a pioneer in the lime industry. Like many of his fellow citizens, he spent long stays in Paris with his wife Mercedes Navarro Ocampo and their seven children. In 1910, during one of his stays, Martin Ferreyra entrusted the project for his house in Córdoba to the Sanson architects, asking them to use as a source of inspiration another building constructed by them which he particularly liked, the Hotel Kessler (1905), located in the French capital, on Raphael Avenue.
On returning home he enlisted the Argentine engineer Carlos Agote to take on the building of the new residence. The construction, which began in 1912, suffered several delays at the beginning of the First World War. Dr. Martín Ferreyra moved in with his family, his wife and children in 1916. But his stay was brief, as he died two years later.
The Ferreyra Palace is one of the most remarkable Beaux-Arts buildings constructed following the international trend of recovering French classicism at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The style adopted is an original recreation of the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century French classicism, and combines a severe design composition of rigid geometry with refined and elegant decoration, whose plant and animal motifs give the building a certain “Art Nouveau” aspect, enhanced by the metal and glass cover that crowns the palace.
The decoration and furnishings were commissioned to the Paris firm Maison Krieger and the light fixtures to Maison Baguès in 1913. The interiors of the Ferreyra Palace were unique in Argentina, since they represented a sophisticated version of the Empire style, typical of the beginning of the Twentieth Century, including traits and design criteria undoubtedly influenced by Art Nouveau.
The mansion was expropriated by the Córdoba Governor José Manuel de la Sota in 2005. Following a complicated refurbishment and restoration of the fabric, it opened its doors as the “Ferreyra Palace Fine Arts Museum” on October 17, 2007; political considerations led to the institution’s redesignation that December as the ‘Museo Superior de Bellas artes Evita’, in homage to the influential former Argentine First Lady, Evita Perón.
D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIX Siècle 1795-1889, (Paris), 2000.
Denise Ledoux-Lebard, ‘Les Ebenistes du XIX Siecle’, pps. 396-7.
F. Grementieri and X. Verstraeten, Grandes Residencias de Buenos Aires, La Influencia Francesa, Ed. Larivière, (Buenos Aires), 2006; pp. 182-185.
Carlos A. Page, El Palacio Ferreyra, Junta Provincial de Historia de Córdoba, 1994.