One of the most elegant and innovative 20th-century French furniture designers, Jacques Adnet created a simple, unadorned signature style that is both trim and vigorous. He began his career in the heyday of the Art Deco era, and in the 1950s, in association with Hermès, created chairs, lamps, desks and other pieces that employed slender metal frames clad in stitched saddle leather. With such furnishings, Adnet brought a fashion sensibility to design and decor that had not been seen since the 1920s prime of the great Paris couturier-decorator Paul Poiret.
Adnet was born in a provincial town in Burgundy, where he studied design before moving, along with his twin brother, Jean, to Paris to study at the École des Arts Décoratifs. After their graduation in the early 1920s, the brothers were hired to work in the decorative-arts atelier of the department store Galeries Lafayette, under the direction of Maurice Dufrêne, an Art Deco master who developed a singularly robust and opulent style. Both Adnets showed their work at the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes — the design fair from which the term Art Deco is derived.
In 1928, Jacques Adnet took charge of the struggling La Compagnie des Arts Français, a decorative-arts firm founded by Louis Süe and André Mare that created modern furnishings that bore traces of 18th-century styling. Adnet immediately took the company in a different direction. He developed a simple lithe and lean look that incorporated industrial materials such as metal and glass, along with exotic woods and finishes such as parchment and sharkskin.
Adnet’s furniture begs to be described in terms of personalities: charming faux-bamboo side tables, suave chrome lighting and urbane club chairs. His most noted pieces, which feature sleek metal frames wrapped in Hermès leather, have a character all their own — smooth, elegant and self-assured, they inhabit a room with the same wit and grace as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve.
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1950's Stitched Leather Vide Poche by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
1950's stitched leather vide poche by Jacques Adnet Chromed metal, Burgundy leather and glass Great condition.
Metal
Jacques Adnet Ashtray in Leather & Glass, France 1950's
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
Cast glass vide poche with original leather brown trim.
Leather, Art Glass
Jacques Adnet Brass and Leather Side Table / Catchall, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning red leather side table / catchall by French designer Jacques Adnet. Iron frame wrapped in a beautiful red leather with glass catchall on top. A large ring with three brass ...
Brass, Iron
1950's Stitched Leather Vide poche by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
Nice 1950's "vide poche" with a Saint-Gobain glass on black and green Stitched leather Great condition
Metal
Jacques Adnet Leather Side Table with Magazine Racks, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning leather side table with dual magazine racks by French designer Jacques Adnet. Table top stands at 18.5". Iron frame fully wrapped in black leather. Signature Adnet Bamboo ef...
Iron, Brass
Decorative Ceramic Vide-Poche by Pol Chambost, circa 1950s
By Pol Chambost
Located in London, GB
Decorative ceramic vide-poche by Pol Chambost (circa 1950s). Small yet elegant seashell-shaped form with white base and dark, grape-purple outline and lip. Outside of the centre, the...
Ceramic
Jacques Adnet Magazine Rack
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Handsome magazine rack by Jacques Adnet. Made of iron and brass. Excellent vintage condition. Star detail on both sides and closed fist on top. Great piece!
Brass, Iron
$1,856
H 13.98 in W 17.92 in D 13.59 in
Modernist Side Table in Wrought Iron & Red Leather - Jacques Adnet Style - 1950s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in ROUEN, Normandie
Modernist Side Table in Wrought Iron & Red Leather - Jacques Adnet Style - 1950s Elegant end table / side table with a great modernist and sophisticated design. Very reminiscen...
Brass, Wrought Iron
Jacques Adnet Style Leather Waste Basket, 1960s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elegant leather wastebasket in the style of Jacques Adnet. Black leather rim with contrasting brown center. Brass loop hardware adds a subtle adornment to each side. Great age and pa...
Leather
$5,900
H 20.5 in Dm 17.5 in
French Mid-Century Modern Mirror Side Table, Jacques Adnet Style, Brass, 1950s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Vienna, AT
A lovely and elegant, petite round neoclassical tripod side or coffee table / guerdon / pedestal from the 1950s, handmade in France. In the style of Jacques Adnet. It consists of a c...
Metal, Brass, Iron
Carved Ebony "Star" Vide Poche, France 1950's
Located in New York, NY
Delicately carved solid Ebony vide poche on a pedestal base decorated with points around the edge.
Ebony
$1,871
H 18.12 in W 18.9 in D 21.26 in
1950s Side Table Attributed to Jacques Adnet and Guidette Carbonell Lava Stones
By Guidette Carbonell, Jacques Adnet, Colette Gueden
Located in London, GB
Rare 1950s wrought iron and lava enamel side table with magazine rack attributed to Guidette Carbonell and Jacques Adnet. A wrought iron base...
Lava, Wrought Iron
$525
H 1.19 in W 7.88 in D 7.88 in
Large Vide Poche or Ashtray in Glass, Geometrical Patterns France, circa 1970
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This vide poche or ashtray in in Glass. It has been done circa 1970, in France. Transparent Color.
Art Glass
Jacques Adnet Magazine Table, France, 1950's
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
Green Leather over blackened steel with brass accents, this side table has a very stylish magazine rack built in. 19x11x21
Leather
$1,021
H 7.49 in W 7.88 in D 2.76 in
French Handstitched Brown Leather Clock, Jacques Adnet Attributed, 1950s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Den Haag, NL
French handstitched brown leather clock, Jacques Adnet attributed, 1950s.
Brass
Ceramic vide-poche "Figue" by Georges Jouve, France, 1950's
By Georges Jouve
Located in Paris, FR
Blue ceramic vide-poche by Georges Jouve, signed
Ceramic
1950's Stitched Leather Small Table by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
Very nice small table covered with stitched leather. Top with brown formica. Designed by Jacques Adnet. France.
Leather, Formica
Jacques Adnet Brass and Leather Ashtray/Catchall, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning black leather ashtray/catchall by French designer Jacques Adnet. Iron frame wrapped in a beautiful black leather with brass catchall dish on top. Three long feet wrapped in...
Brass
Jacques Adnet Brass and Leather Side Table / Catchall, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning red leather side table / catchall by French designer Jacques Adnet. Iron frame wrapped in a beautiful red leather with glass catchall on top. A large ring with three brass ...
Iron, Brass
Jacques Adnet Leather Side Table or Catchall, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning leather side table / catchall by Jacques Adnet. Iron A frame completely wrapped in black leather with 2 tiers. Glass tray on top and a leather tray underneath as well. Signa...
Brass, Iron
Jacques Adnet Leather and Glass Side Table, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning leather side table with glass table top by French designer Jacques Adnet. Iron frame wrapped in a beautiful brown leather. Both ends are defined by two leather wrapped arche...
Iron
Sold
H 18 in W 10.5 in D 11.5 in
Jacques Adnet Leather and Glass Side Table and Catchall, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning leather ashtray / catchall with Emerald green glass dish by French designer Jacques Adnet. Iron frame wrapped in a beautiful natural tan leather with glass catchall on top. ...
Iron
Jacques Adnet Glass Ashtray/Catchall, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Handsome green leather and frosted glass ashtray from the 1950s by seminal French Art Deco modernist designer Jacques Adnet. The inside part of t...
Leather, Glass
Sold
H 2.37 in W 21.26 in D 12.21 in
Jacques Adnet, Modernist Lucite Mirrored Tray, Maison Adnet, France, 1940s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Firenze, IT
Modernist mirrored tray with lucite details Jacques Adnet, Paris, France 1940s Metal, glass, lucite Measures: H 6 cm 31 x 54 cm Conditions: excellent consistent with a...
Metal
Jacques Adnet Leather Side Table and Catchall, 1950s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning red leather ashtray / catchall with black iron base by French designer Jacques Adnet. Iron frame with everything but the base wrapped in a beautiful red leather with glass c...
Iron
Jacques Adnet Leather & Glass Catchall, France 1950's
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Adnet "vide poche" in its original leather stitched base.
Leather, Art Glass
Jacques Adnet Cognac Leather and Glass Ashtray, 1950s France
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Classic leather and glass catchall / ashtray by French designer Jacques Adnet. Rich cognac leather base with signature Adnet contrast stitching and a circular inset cutout. Crystal g...
Leather, Glass
Jacques Adnet Standing Ashtray Catch All
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jacques Adnet standing ashtray or catch all Mid-century French classic piece Sturdy iron frame with saddle leather Signature contrast stitching Patina from age and use Perfect addition to any entry as a key catchall...
Iron
Jacques Adnet French Side Table and Catchall, 1950s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning black leather ashtray / catchall by French designer Jacques Adnet. Black iron frame completely wrapped in black leather with glass catchall on top. Large ring handle makes u...
Iron