Decorative Arts & Design
Cabinet
Permanent ExhibitionFurniture
Details
- Author / creator
- Louis Majorelle (French, 1859–1926)
- Object type
- Furniture
- Date or period
- c. 1910
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 130.8 × 162.5 × 58.4 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Louis Majorelle
- Period / style
- Art Nouveau
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 1976
About this object
The Majorelle family operated a large furniture making business at Nancy in eastern France. There they produced distinguished furniture in the Art Nouveau style. That style is well illustrated in the curvilinear, abstract wood marquetry (an inlaid, veneered pattern) on the doors of this cabinet.
Materials and technique
Wood marquetry with metal mounts
