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André Dubreuil & Tom Dixon - Coquillages Chandelier
André Dubreuil & Tom Dixon - Coquillages Chandelier
Price upon request
André DUBREUIL (1951 – 2022) & Tom DIXON (born 1959)
Chandelier, “Coquillages” model, 1985.
Unique piece.
Steel, glass and seashells.
Diam. 121 cm (47 ⅝ in.) – H. 110 cm (43 ¼ in.)
Provenance: Rococo Chocolates, King’s Road, London.
A truly historic piece: the chandelier with which André Dubreuil’s career began.
In May 1985, Chantal Coady entrusted Tom Dixon with the furniture for the renovation of “Rococo”, her chocolate shop on King’s Road, and called on a young trompe-l’œil painter, André Dubreuil, to decorate the walls. It was the first meeting of the two men. Tom Dixon and André Dubreuil made the shop’s chandelier together, Dubreuil’s first work in iron. It was at that very moment that he “threw down his brush and bought a welding set”.
The chandelier then became part of the Rococo interior, a meeting place for the Creative Salvage movement – Tom Dixon, André Dubreuil, Ron Arad, Mark Brazier-Jones, Nick Jones. It marks the very beginning of the path that would make Dubreuil the “poet of iron”. A foundational work and a genuine piece of design history.
Literature:
Nick Wright & Gareth Williams, Cut and Shut: The History of Creative Salvage, London, 2012, illustrated p. 107.
