"Le non pareil"

Art Nouveau

log burner

by Deville

SoldPrice: £550

This is a superb little stove coming from the middle part of the Art Deco movement about 1920-1930 but done in an Art Nouveau style. You don’t need to have a huge drawing room to get the benefit from this refined stove. The casting designs on the front of the stove are exquisite.

This pale blue stove is in excellent original condition needing only a good clean up and the mica replacing. It comes complete with the optional matching hook on ash pan.

It was made by the well known manufacturer Deville & Cie of Charleville in the Ardennes between 1920 and 1939, and can be found in their 1930 catalogue. This is medium sized stove, and is called a 'poele à bois' visible et continue' by the manufacturers.

It is in excellent condition, and really benefit from the quality of casting and enamelling associated with Deville. This stove epitomise the best in Art Nouveau style and design.

It has been a working stove, and as such has one or two small chips to the enamel, but you have to search for them. It is more or less 70-80 years old and their condition is consistent with the usual wear which is to be expected of any piece like this stove that is of a certain age, and that has been used to give heat and warmth to its previous owners. All working parts are in excellent condition, just connect the flue, light the match and away you go!

 This stove was designed for all types of wood
  This is a beautiful, unusual stove and these photos do not really do it justice.

 If you look carefully at the film Chocolat, you can see a honey brown "le non pareil" in Grandma's (Judi Dench.) parlour!

The dimensions are:

55cms H (21½”) x 53cms W (20¾”)  x 35cms D (13¾”)  and the flue size is 9cms (3½”) 35cms

Weight is about 50kgs
 

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