Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 622
* Bianchini Férier. A collection of original designs, late 19th-early 20th century, 25 original drawings, various media, including watercolour, gouache, pencil, on paper or card, some stencilled, featuring floral, foliate, or geometric patterns, most with annotations, one with ink stamp 'Suzanne Kientz, Paris' and name 'Pardo' on verso, another with ink stamp 'M. TH. Robert Gattiker, Paris' on verso, some edge-fraying and marks, largest 147.5 x 91 cm (58 x 36 ins), smallest 20 x 13 cm (8 x 5 ins), contained in a large board portfolioQTY: (a folder)NOTE:Provenance: From Bianchini Textiles, Christie's South Kensington, London, 27th July 2001.The silk weaving house of Bianchini Férier was founded in Lyon in 1888, and achieved success early on, with the award of a Silver Medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889. In 1912 the artist Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was brought on board, and he produced around 4000 designs for the firm between 1912 and 1928. After his contract came to an end Bianchini Férier continued to make fabrics for important fashion houses such as Charles Worth, Madeleine Vionnet, Jeanne Lanvin Paquin and Patou, as well as producing scarves for Hermes, Jacques Fath and others, and creating imaginative designs for Givenchy, Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior and Yves Saint-Laurent, to name but a few.
