Jean-Charles Moreux Tables

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...

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...

A large French Art Deco walnut pedestal dining/conference table with brass details. Bibliography: Susan Day, Jean-Charles Moreux Architecte-De...

Elegant wrought-iron dining table of baroque inspiration. The square top has serpentine edges and is made of perforated sheet metal. Shapely apron and cabriole legs ending in scrolle...

French midcentury low table by Jean-Charles Moreux in gilt forged iron. Measures: 30" wide x 19.5" deep x 17.5" high. Heavy glass top in size specified ...

Mahogany veneered coffee table raised on four wide out-scrolled legs, connected by a thick bar which runs parallel to the table edge. Similar gueridon pictured in Susan Day’s Jean-Ch...

Signed Jean Charles pair of two-tier French coffee table. Measurement: 3.3/4 from the floor to the first-tier.

Massive and veneer sanded oak neoclassical table with a thick travertine top. Litt: a very close model illustrated in " Jean-Charles Moreux- architecte-dec...