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Umbrella holder with 3 compartments perforated black metal, Mathieu Matégot * vintage 1950s twentieth century.
This umbrella stand is in good condition.
A note: small shock and depression on a compartment (see last photo), dirt and wear of time, some traces of oxidation, see photos.
Born in Hungary April 4, 1910, Mathieu Matégot spent four years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Budapest before becoming a stage designer. In 1931, he moved to Paris, working as a window dresser and realizes in 1933 his first rattan objects on metal frame, but handcrafted and anonymously. Meanwhile, the painter that he has ceased to be conceived, in 1939, his first tapestries. Prisoner of war, he had the idea during his assignment in a gear factory, carrosser a box with perforated plate falls. From 1945 to his return from captivity and when he opens a workshop of furniture in Paris, he decided to use this material in the form of a perforated sheet is easy to machine, patented under the name Rigitulle. For fifteen years he produced in very small series of furniture, chairs, lamps and other objects to mild, often unexpected, where the predominant metal, lacquered black or bright colors. It also uses rattan, brass, formica, glass or wood. Member of the Society of Artists decorators (SAD), he exhibited regularly between 1952 and 1958 Home Exhibition and the Salon des Artistes Decorators twenties models he created every year and it sells exclusively to decorating homes. It also receives commands interiors (offices, apartments, hotels, shops, restaurants). As part of these commands, including designing the restaurants and bars of the first Star Drug store on the Champs Elysee in Paris, La Saladière Avenue des Ternes in Paris and two homes at the Maison de la Radio in Paris. Applications are multiplying, it installs a factory in Casablanca and an agency in London. His health problems forced him to stop gradually all artistic and public activity. He died at Angers February 17, 2001 at the age of 90 years.
