Smoked Glass Fire Screen on Art Deco Bronze Supports in the Style of Raym

This distinguished fire screen combines the elegant hardware sophistication of a large smoked glass panel with two bronze supports of extraordinary decorative quality. The glass—a unique flat panel of considerable width, tinted in a warm grey-brown reminiscent of the finest French interior design of the 1970s—rests between its supports with elegant simplicity, its semi-translucent surface absorbing and refracting ambient light. The bronze supports represent the true artistic distinction of the piece, maintaining the closest formal relationship with the vocabulary of Raymond Subes, the most eminent of French decorative ironworkers and metalworkers of the Art Deco era. Each support is a small sculptural composition: a vertical post articulated by organic and fluid forms in scrolls—paired C-scrolls or leaf-like motifs in the shape of a lyre—that create a sense of botanical energy and controlled natural movement. These forms are executed with the precision and assurance of a skilled foundry workshop, their chiselled and polished surfaces revealing the warmth of gilded bronze against a dark iron base. The combination of smoked glass and Art Deco bronze sculpture creates an unusually rich formal dialogue: the cold, smooth surface of the glass is animated by the warm, complex texture of the bronze, while the sculptural complexity of the supports stands out against the flat, reflective plane on which they rise. It is an arrangement that achieves its effect through contrast rather than harmony, and it succeeds fully. At 70 cm wide and 47.5 cm high, this fire screen is generously proportioned for most medium to larger-sized homes. It would serve as a central quality object in any interior of classic or Art Deco character, fulfilling its practical function while simultaneously operating as a piece of decorative sculpture.