Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Family is what brought Kifu Augousti into the world of furniture design. The daughter of celebrated designers Ria and Yiouri Augousti, Kifu has a bold, quirky style that is fiercely independent. Her exquisite handmade tables, seating and decorative objects — which typically feature pronounced geometrical forms and exotic inlays — set Augousti apart as an up-and-coming creator of modern furnishings made in the Art Deco tradition.
Augousti embarked on her creative career early. After attending Brown University, she followed in her parents' footsteps, carving out her own reputation as a design powerhouse.
While it’s often likened to her parents’ work, Kifu Augousti’s designs have a look that is distinctively their own. Offbeat materials, sinuous curves and wild patterns have become hallmarks of the designer’s furniture. In the workshop of her parent's design firm, R & Y Augousti, Kifu experimented with semi-precious stones, shells and other interesting materials as a child. Her parents gained fame for bringing shagreen — leather made from shark or stingray hide — back into fashion. (It reemerged as a luxe material among designers and decorators in 2017.)
Popular in the 1930s, this versatile material had fallen out of vogue over time. The Augoustis revived it for use in their own work, and Kifu Augousti continues to celebrate it, incorporating shagreen into her signature styles that are on offer at her Kifu Paris shop in Paris as well as in her New York City showroom. She favors bold, nature-inspired prints and silhouettes, and in many of her handmade benches, coffee tables, daybeds and other large pieces, an integration of shagreen blends wonderfully with the structures’ bold bronze frames or bases. In her smaller boxes, baskets and vases, stylish combinations of shagreen, shell inlays and decorative knobs with semi-precious stones are merged to create a sumptuous, unconventional look that is utterly unique.
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21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Brass
1920s Charles II Vintage Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Elm, Oak
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Metal, Chrome
2010s Italian Modern Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Brass
2010s Danish Scandinavian Modern Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Other
1910s Vintage Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Formica, Beech
21st Century and Contemporary American Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Stone
1980s American Louis XV Vintage Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Walnut
2010s American Modern Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Metal
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Brass
1960s American Neoclassical Vintage Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Kifu Augousti Desks and Writing Tables
Brass
