Jean-Charles Moreux

DESCRIPTION: Art deco coffee table by Jean-Charles Moreux made with oak and opaline glass. CONDITION: Very good vintage condition. Wear consistent with age and use. DIMENSIONS: He...

A fine Art Deco low coffee table Attributed to Jean-Charles Moreux dating from the 1940s. A pioneer of the Art Deco Neo-Baroque movement, Moreux’s work merges natural and primitive form with playful Surrealist imagery. Known for his use of shell, plaster, exotic woods and the forged iron from which this piece is cast, Moreux has finely crafted a smooth, stepped rectangular top to mount the glass surface, resting this on the bold heads of four pulling horses...

French Art Deco low table, circa 1938, designed by Jean-Charles Moreux and executed in cerused oak with travertine marble top. 31” wide x 19” deep x 20” high. JEAN-CHARLES MOREUX (1889-1956) French architect and designer Jean-Charles Moreux was born in 1889 at the Chateau de Joncy in Saone-et-Loire. He studied at l’Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris (1914-22) where he spent the period during World War I working on the preservation of works of art. While attending l’Ecole he became friends with the architect Jean Lurcat and his brothers, Andre and Paul Vera. In 1924 he exhibited his first pieces of furniture at the Salon d’Automne. He had a preference for poetic living spaces and felt that people deserved better than Corbusier’s “machines for living in”. He was anxious to introduce aspects of the marvelous into architecture and living spaces. His creations drew upon the classical, baroque, and rococo styles. Moreux’s well-known clients included the Baron Robert de Rothschild and Bolette Natanson...

Perfectly proportioned pair of tall armchairs by renowned French 1940s furniture designer and interior decorator Jean-Charles Moreux. Perfect for a chic...

Set of six French gilt iron chairs by Jean-Charles Moreaux. All of the chairs have a nice decorative pattern.

Set of 6 Jean-Charles Moreux French iron gilt chairs. There are two armchairs and four chairs without arms. The chairs have a nice decorative patte...

French Art Deco pair of gilt hand forged iron armchairs by Jean-Charles Moreux, circa 1936. inspired by Louis XV, part of Moreux’s antidote to functionlism. Pictured with matching...

Jean Charles Moreux (1889-1956) rare large art deco gueridon in wrought iron and oak, circa 1930 Documentation: "La revue francaise" 1930 page 67 Jean Charles Moreux, by Susan Day...