{"id":810,"date":"2021-01-19T20:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:56:02","slug":"elstir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/elstir\/","title":{"rendered":"Elstir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u00a9 Roland Tisserand \u2013 at Atmosph\u00e8re d\u2019Ailleurs \u2013 Flowers by Debeaulieu<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n


\u201cAnd Elstir\u2019s studio appeared to me as the laboratory of a sort of new creation of the world in which, from the chaos that is all the things we see, he had extracted, by painting them on various rectangles of canvas that were hung everywhere about the room, here a wave of the sea crushing angrily on the sand its lilac foam, there a young man in a suit of white linen, leaning upon the rail of a vessel.\u201d<\/p>Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPeintures en huile, en miniature et encaustique, Planche IV\u201d Encyclop\u00e9die Diderot, D\u2019Alembert, 1772.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet, \u201cMatin\u00e9e sur la Seine pr\u00e8s de Giverny\u201d, 1897, Wildenstein 1483, private collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Elstir, the character<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Elstir is the painter of the novel. He belongs to the Impressionist movement. He strives not to show things as he knows they are \u201c[\u2026] but according to these optical illusions of which our first vision is made\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe young girls in flowers\u201d of Balbec used to frequent Elstir\u2019s studio and the Narrator will do everything to be introduced to Albertine by the painter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I arrived at Elstir\u2019s, a few minutes later, my first impression was that Mlle. Simonet was not in the studio. There was certainly a girl sitting there in a silk frock bareheaded, but one whose marvelous hair, whose nose, meant nothing to me, in whom I did not recognize the human entity that I had formed out of a young cyclist strolling past, in a polo\u2013cap, between myself and the sea. It was Albertine, nevertheless.<\/p>\nMarcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Roland Tisserand \u2013 at Atmosph\u00e8re d\u2019Ailleurs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Gebr\u00fcder Thonet, Rocking Chair, ca. 1860 – MoMA collection New-York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Excerpt from the research notebook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From literature to design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Towards a rocking chair<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Elstir\u2019s studio description is a very beautiful scene of the novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Elstir\u2019s studio appeared to me as the laboratory of a sort of new creation of the world in which, from the chaos that is all the things we see, he had extracted, by painting them on various rectangles of canvas that were hung everywhere about the room, here a wave of the sea crushing angrily on the sand its lilac foam, there a young man in a suit of white linen, leaning upon the rail of a vessel.<\/p>\nMarcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As Jean-Yves Tadi\u00e9, the great Proustian scholar, said : \u201cElstir studio is, like the studio of Proust, carpeted with these sketches, traces of his life and of his thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rocking-chair dates from the early XIXth century, popularized by Michael Thonet. It was commonplace in the homes of Shakers, an American religious sect, because, as they said, its rocking helped to guide their eyes toward heaven. Anthony Guerr\u00e9e wanted to transform Elstir into a rocking-chair to underline the importance of movement and time for the Impressionists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Anthony Guerr\u00e9e<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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ELSTIR<\/em><\/strong> – rocking chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Dimensions : 90 x 50 x h 135 cm s.h. 45 cm
Structure in solid brushed oak tint \u00ab marais \u00bb
Vegetable-tanned neck-leather color \u00ab palma \u00bb
Signed et numbered (limited edition 8 pieces)
Made in France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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