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Jean-Michel Frank Console Tables

French, 1895-1941

For French interior and furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank (1895–1941), history always had a great allure. He once wrote, “The noble frames that came to us from the past can receive today’s creations.” His career celebrated heritage while promoting new modes of 20th-century design, and it flourished between the World Wars when Frank designed interiors that tastefully mixed extravagance with sophisticated simplicity, often featuring pieces he made with his business partner, cabinetmaker Adolphe Chanaux.

It took personal tragedy for Frank to realize his calling. Frank had been exempted from the World War I draft due to his physical frailty but his brothers both served and died on the front. When his German father applied for French naturalization, he was rejected and placed under house arrest, killing himself shortly after. His mother went into a deep depression and began undergoing psychiatric treatment and died a few years later.

With his large inheritance, Frank joined the Paris culture crowd and there got his start in the burgeoning field of interior design. His signature style, which became known as “luxe pauvre” — “impoverished luxury” — was characterized by clean lines, mixed materials and hard-to-miss details. His interiors for clients including Nelson Rockefeller and Elsa Schiaparelli featured artwork by modern creators like Diego and Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Favoring the color white, he would consider each element of his spartan rooms as part of the whole, from bronze doors to plush antique furnishings, always tastefully rich yet never decadent. He worked on furniture with Chanaux that reinforced this austere style. Some of his most well-known furniture pieces, including the Croisillon table lamps, the Parsons table, brass tripod gueridons and the leather Comfortable chairs that used the Hermès saddle stitch, are extremely simple in their elegant appearance. This attention to refined details, simple luxury and the cohesion of design in a room made him one of the leading tastemakers of 1930s Paris.

After fleeing the Nazi occupation of France (he was part of a Jewish family that included his distant cousin, the diarist Anne Frank), Frank arrived in New York where he killed himself at the age of 46. His commitment to creating home interiors where comfort and fine art could merge and styles could mix in harmony remains influential in design.

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Original Vintage Jean-Michel Frank Rattan & Iron Console Tables Comte Argentina
Original Vintage Jean-Michel Frank Rattan & Iron Console Tables Comte Argentina

Original Vintage Jean-Michel Frank Rattan & Iron Console Tables Comte Argentina

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Jean-Michel Frank Iron & Rattan Console Tables, 1940 An exceptionally rare pair of console tables by Jean-Michel Frank, dating to 1940 and exemplifying the designer’s unmistakab...

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Original Vintage Jean-Michel Frank Rattan & Iron Guideron Tables Comte Argentina
Original Vintage Jean-Michel Frank Rattan & Iron Guideron Tables Comte Argentina

Original Vintage Jean-Michel Frank Rattan & Iron Guideron Tables Comte Argentina

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Guéridon Tables, 1938 Painted iron and rattan Diameter: 39 cm (15¼ in) Height: 71 cm (28 in) Produced by Comte, Argentina Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Com...

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Console table designed by Jean-Michel Frank made by Casa COMTE
Console table designed by Jean-Michel Frank made by Casa COMTE

Console table designed by Jean-Michel Frank made by Casa COMTE

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Writing desk made of wood with leather covered top and golden vignette. The table has 8 drawers, 4 on each side. Design by Jean-Michel Frank(1895-1941). France, CIRCA 1930.

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