**Hector Guimard** (10 March 1867 - 20 May 1942) was a French architect, who is now the best-known representative of the Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Guimard's critical reputation has risen since the 1960s, as many art historians have praised his architectural and decorative work, the best of it done during a relatively brief fifteen years of prolific creative activity.

Bench-oak chest, a cubic box forming concave base, with a geometric decoration in reserve on the front and sides, two arm rests and curved moldings and a top cross lobed openwork decoration.

Model exhibited at 1895.



H: 93 cm L: 94 cm D: 48 cm