Alexandre Guillemain, a specialist in 20th century design and decorative arts, exhibits internationally renowned designers and artists around three specialties: 20th century American furniture (Frank Lloyd Wright, George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, Paul Evans, T.H Robsjohn -Gibbings, Paul McCobb, Edward Wormley, Vladimir Kagan, Paul Frankl …), the French and Italian lighting of the years 1950-1970 (Max Ingrand, Gino Sarfatti, Pierre Guariche, Gio Ponti, Robert Mathieu, Jean-Boris Lacroix, Oscar Torlasco, Stilnovo…) and French ceramics from the 1950s-1960s (Georges Jouve, Jacques and Dani Ruelland, Les 2 Potiers, Denyse Gatard, Roger Capron, Jean Derval, Jacques Pouchain, Elisabeth Joulia, Robert Deblander, Gustave Tiffoche …)
The gallery organizes numerous monographic exhibitions (“Bernard-Albin Gras”, “Pierre Paulin: 1954/1962”, “Osvaldo Borsani & Tecno”, “Pierre Guariche: Les Introuvables”, “George Nakashima 50 years of creation”, “Frank Lloyd Wright” …) or themes (“Please, sit down! Assises from 1950 to 1980”, “American Masters”, “Modern ceramics” …) and participates each year in PAD Paris and PAD London.
Jean Royère’s works of art made Jacques Lacoste want to open a gallery specialized in design of the 1940s – 1950s and for ten years he has been the one that people consult for an advice or a valuation on the works of art of this great designer. He is also the one who shows this work whenever he gets the opportunity on the other side of the Atlantic. But is does not prevent him from showing the works of Serge Mouille, Alexandre Noll, Georges Jouve or Pierre Szekely.
Perhaps the most famous Parisian gallery in the world, as the works presented at the Hôtel Collot are exceptional. His clients are all very knowledgeable collectors or major international museums.
Nicolas, Alexis and Laura Kugel represent the fifth and sixth generation of a family of antique dealers who began their activity in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century with Elie Kugel, collector of clocks. His grandson, Matias, emigrated to Paris in 1924 and it was Jacques Kugel, for whom the research and presentation of works of art was an immense passion, which gave, in the 1970s, an international aura to the gallery by rediscovering many lost treasures.
In 2004, the gallery moved to the magnificent Hôtel Collot. Most of the works presented there come directly from private collections and are exhibited in the historic rooms of the Hotel or in a more contemporary adjoining space. To support their collectors, Alexis, Nicolas and Laura Kugel are assisted by a team of art historians who themselves work in a library with more than 20,000 reference works,
An antique dealer grandmother, a decorator father, art history studies, Oscar Graf, despite his young age, has the job under his skin. But he chose to focus on a very particular period: the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in Europe and the United States, which his father François-Joseph was one of the first to defend. Like him, Oscar is fond of this Japanese movement which operated in Western Europe from 1868, when the Japanese ports opened up to the world. This current at the origin of many styles was interpreted very differently according to countries and fashions. From the almost contemporary forms of Godwin to the ceramics of Carriès, passing by Edouard Lièvre and the Herter Brothers, the decorative arts were cradled for almost thirty years by this Far Eastern culture which very often appeared as a new world.
Both an ultra-specialized archeology gallery which presents almost museum-like pieces and an open place which likes to confront Roman antiquities with the ceramics of Picasso or the work of contemporary artists.
For a little over twenty years, Ollivier, Gladys and Adrien Chenel have formed a team of enthusiastic gallery owners and experts who present these incredible pieces at the most beautiful fairs in the world.
Specializing above all in the art of the high times of tribal societies, the Galerie Bernard Dulon organizes numerous thematic exhibitions where even contemporary art is sometimes invited. Expert in the ancient arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas and curator of exhibitions, Bernard Dulon regularly collaborates with major museums and the gallery participates in the Parcours des Mondes in Paris and at TEFAF in Maastricht and New York.
But this enthusiast of the decorative arts of the twentieth and twenty-first century also has the taste for extreme sophistication that can be found in each of his sets where he expresses a real talent as a scenographer.
The gallery specializes in ritual works from Africa. Whether it be sculptures from West Africa, such as the large Tyiwara crests of the Malian Bambara ethnic group, the “classics” Fang or Punu of Gabonese art, or even the statuary with magical or prophylactic virtues of the tribes Teke, Luba and Kusu from Congo.
