**Armand-Albert Rateau** (1882 - 1938) was a French furniture maker and interior designer. In 2006, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts characterized him as "the most eminent of the ensembliers, the high-style designer-decorators" who worked with luxury materials for the socially elite.
In 2012, Architectural Digest described him as "one of the most exclusive interior designers of the 1920s. Two of his more notable achievements are the bronze furniture of his manufacture and the designs he assembled in decorating the apartment of Jeanne Lanvin.

Rare bibus built in black and lacquered wood with gold leaf.

It has a large open compartment, a closed niche and a retractable shelf, sheathed in black leather, with piston plug gilt bronze and ivory.The two side posts are carved in fine relief elegant drapery fell and pleated.

The cabinet rests on four feet cylinder with palm leaves pattern carved and gold leaf. Stamped in cold iron "AARateau" and numbered "1405-5802".

80 x 54 x 34 cm