Art Deco Coffee Table in Parchment and Mahogany, France, circa 1940s

Stamped: Groupe des ébénistes d’art Paris A well-proportioned piece by the Deco great Jean Pascaud, this mahogany table features a lovely round top and subtly curved legs which te...

This long side table has a ceramic top assembled from tiles created by the master ceramist Paul Vera, each depicting a fanciful vignette or design and glazed in black and white. The base, in wrought iron, is assembled of long thin legs, and possesses a shelf, swirling on its sides and latticed at its center. This work is typical of Véra’s output during the Second World War. Despite being removed from his home by German forces, he continued his artistic research and production, albeit with more modest means, and explored a variety of ceramic possibilities. He created tiles with exuberant and whimsical characters such as peasants and gardeners (his brother André Véra was a famous gardener) in the kiln of his friend Jean-Paul Luthringer, a sculptor in St-Germain-en-Laye. At Salon de l’Imagerie 1946, he exhibited models of ceramic tiles for bathrooms, swimming pools, fish shops and post offices. That same year, La Maîtrise of Galeries Lafayette department store ordered ceramic tiles for the decoration of an oak sideboard by Marcelle Maisonnier.   The Musée Paul & André Véra of St Germain-en-Laye has in its collection a ceramic tobacco pot with very similar figures of doves and characters painted in white on a dark brown background. This box was given as a wedding gift by Paul Véra...

A playful, wrought iron table with a white, rectangular stone top.

A beautiful oak and ceramic coffee table by famed French ceramist Jacques Blin, this piece features his beautiful, stripped down design aesthetic and his characteristic cave painting...

A coffee table by the great French designer Roger Capron, featuring a criss-crossing polished wood frame, and a ruddy ceramic tile top that extends on one side more than on the other...

This table’s arresting, gilt bronze base mimics lightning in hue, form, and arrangement. At the base’s center lies a large amethyst, and the piece is crowned with a wide, rectangular...

Simple but really beautiful French Art Deco coffee table, 1940. It has a maple top and stylish legs that give a very elegant touch to the table. You can see from the pictures the pat...

Charming French Art Deco coffee or side table from the 1940s with a heavy yet dainty wrought iron base, with original cream and gold paint. The mirrored top is set in a decorated sur...

Elegant Art Deco-period wrought iron coffee table with a marble top. Bold lines, with contrasting graphic zig-zags and elegant loops and scrolls. The marble top is pink and yel...

An elegant French Art Deco 1940s wrought iron coffee table. Understated in it simplicity the forging of this piece has been executed with great precision the interior of each of the...

Midcentury Art Deco rosewood coffee table, France, 1940s. With sycamore inlays. Full restored with high gloss lacquer.  

Elegant hammered and wrought iron coffee table raised on cabriole legs, with a curlicue apron. Dark green marble-top veined with black and white.