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"AD Shops: Galerie du Passage\nParis antiques dealer Pierre Passebon's gallery is as packed with treasures as his apartment\nDesigned by artist Christian B\u00E9rard (1902\u20131949), this circa-1930 wood-framed fire screen was formerly in the collection of Mme. Adolphe Chanaux, whose husband was the business partner of interior designer Jean-Michel Frank. Its inset panel is made of appliqu\u00E9d leather worked by Margarita Classen-Smith, a noted antique-textile restorer and leather artist who dyed skins and transformed them into incredible curtains, bed hangings, upholstery, tabletops, tapestries, and more.\n\nDimensions: 54.3\" l. x 41\" h. x 10.6\" d.\n\nPrice: \u20AC45,000 (approx. $61,400)\nA founder of the influential Memphis design movement of the 1980s, Italian architect Ettore Sottsass (1917\u20132007) created this sculptural Ambuja mirror, which was produced in 2000. It is composed of mahogany supports holding a square of mirror that is framed with thin strips of yellow and orange Plexiglas.\n\nDimensions: 43.3\" l. x 15.7\" h.\n\nPrice: \u20AC5,000 (approx. $6,800)\nA founder of the influential Memphis design movement of the 1980s, Italian architect Ettore Sottsass (1917\u20132007) created this sculptural Ambuja mirror, which was produced in 2000. It is composed of mahogany supports holding a square of mirror that is framed with thin strips of yellow and orange Plexiglas.\n\nDimensions: 43.3\" l. x 15.7\" h.\n\nPrice: \u20AC5,000 (approx. $6,800)\nAmong the signatures of the Napol\u00E9on III period of the 1850s and '60s were chairs and stools whose gilt-wood frames were carved to resemble coiled and knotted rope. It was a style popularized by Paris cabinetmaker and upholsterer A.M.E. Fournier. The two side chairs shown here once belonged to Madeleine Castaing (1894\u20131992), the legendary French decorator and art collector. (To learn more about her, we recommend Emily Evans Eerdmans's stunning recent book, The World of Madeleine Castaing [Rizzoli, $65].)\n\nDimensions: 35.4\" h. x 16.5\" w. x 16.5\" d.\n\nPrice: \u20AC18,000 for the pair (approx. $24,550)\nThis exaggerated modern version of the traditional wing chair is a 1953 design by Franco Campo (b. 1926) and Carlo Graffi (1925\u20131985), architects who worked in Turin, Italy, and whose furniture has often been mistaken for the work of Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino. The chair's carved base is made of clear maple.\n\nDimensions: 44.5\" h. x 28.3\" w. x 31.5\" d.\n\nPrice: \u20AC80,000 (approx. $109,100)\nUpholstered in cotton, this rare armchair is made of red-lacquered tubular metal and was designed by French modernist Jean Roy\u00E8re (1902\u20131981). A leading decorator of the 20th century, the Paris-based Roy\u00E8re operated satellite offices in Beirut, Cairo, Lima, and Tehran. He was known for lean, elegant metal furniture, often artfully perforated, which he created for clients such as King Farouk of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan. One of the leading Roy\u00E8re collectors of recent times is fashion designer Wolfgang Joop.\n\nDimensions: 31.1\" h. x 29.5\" w. x 30.3\" d.\n\nPrice: \u20AC35,000 (approx. $47,750)\n\u00C9lisabeth Garouste (b. 1949) and Mattia Bonetti (b. 1952) were among the hottest design teams of recent times, thanks to extravagant furniture and lighting where artistry met whimsy. Made in 2001, this Big Sur cabinet, the only one ever made, has sprouting handles and a resin surface dappled with cowhidelike spots. It was formerly owned by David Whitney, an art collector and curator, who was the companion of architect Philip Johnson.\n\nDimensions: 51.2\" l. x 35.4\" h. x 23.6\" d.\n\nPrice: \u20AC65,000 (approx. $88,650)\nBelgian designer Pol Quadens (b. 1960) assembled mismatched ceiling-light components for his handmade Explode chandelier, a 2010 work. It is a unique piece that was created for \"Second Hand, Second Life,\" a fashion show of inventively recycled clothes auctioned to benefit Les Petit Riens, a Brussels charity that helps the homeless.\n\nDimensions: 47.2\" w. x 43.3\" d. x 31.5\" h.\n\nPrice: \u20AC12,000 (approx. $16,370)\nFor the Mark hotel in New York City\u2014recently refurbished by Pierre Passebon and his companion, decorator Jacques Grange\u2014Guy de Rougemont dreamed this free-form occasional-table design, made of chrome and Plexiglas with a top of black opaline glass.\n\nDimensions: 18.5\" h. x 20.7\" w. x 15\" d.\n\nPrice: \u20AC6,500 per table (approx. $8,860)\nStainless steel is one of the favorite materials of French furniture and accessories designer Maria Pergay (b. 1930), whose fans have included King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (she was his decorator for years) and fashion powerhouse Pierre Cardin (he bought her entire first furniture collection). Pergay has said it \"looks so strong, hard, and cold [yet] is sweet and not sharp, and matches with everything. \" This small occasional table, dated 1968, is made of stainless steel with a pivoting copper shelf.\n\nDimensions: 23.6\" h. x 12\" d.\n\nPrice: \u20AC35,000 (approx. $47,750)\n\"FRANCO ALBINI: THE APPARENT SIMPLICITY\"\n\nFrom March 23 through April 30, Pierre Passebon will host a 40-piece exhibition of furniture and lighting by Italian architect Franco Albini (1905\u20131977) at Galerie du Passage. A leader of the Neo-Rationalist movement who began his career working for Gio Ponti, Albini was hailed for no-fuss designs that melded soulfulness and delicacy with industrial-strength metals and plainspoken woods. The works\u2014some stark, others organic\u2014were complicated to realize (his famous Luisa chair of 1951 took more than a decade to perfect) but Albini's goal was to mask the manufacturing exertions in pursuit of what he called \"apparent simplicity.\" Among his outstanding public commissions are the modernist renovations of two Renaissance palace-museums in Genoa: Museo Palazzo Bianco and Museo Palazzo Rosso. This exhibition was developed in collaboration with Nina Yashar of Gallery Nilufar in Milan."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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