Chrome and Brass Oval Cocktail Table by Peter Ghyczy

From the Biri range, with brass accents and figures supporting the thick glass top. Peter Ghyczy, child of a widespread aristocratic family, grew up in Buda, a fine district of Budapest. After the invasion of the Red Army 1945, in which his father was killed, he was sent to the family's property Vásárosnameny in the Puszta plains, where he also visited the village school. In 1947 he was brought to Belgium by the International Red Cross for one year, where he learned French. After the family was expropriated of their estate, he returned to his mother in Budapest, where he finished primary school. From 1954 on he attended the Benedictine Secondary School in Pannonhalma connected to a famous monastery. 1956, after the crushing of the Hungarian uprising against the communist regime, he fled with his mother and brother via Vienna to Bonn. In 1960 he attained his "Abitur" (A level) and started to study architecture at the Technical University of Aachen specializing on constructional engineering. Beginning in 1961 he assisted professor Rudolf Steinbach, a renowned German architect, and later worked at the institute of plastic research. In between he took jobs in Paris and at a Unesco project in Kalabsha, Egypt, which was saving antique ruins...

A quality brass and chrome bar cart with two removable trays in glass, the top clear the bottom opaque. Marked with the Ghyczy stamp on each support. The X frame design in brass with...

A Brass, Chrome and Lucite coffee/Cocktail table by Belgo Chrome circa 1970. The chrome and brass plinth base with a curved lucite support holding the thick glass top.

An unusual two-piece brass and Lucite coffee table, with moulded edge and curved shape with two organic cast brass supports signed by des...

A large rectangle shaped low coffee table in tessellated marble. The supports tapering and cylindrical. The edge with a "Bulls Nose" finish and decorative "Dental" worked edge. Image...

A very good quality table by Maison Jansen, with elaborate gold gilt supports in the Rococo manner, and a shaped top in parchment. Stamped Jansen underneath.

This coffee table was manufactured by Peter Ghyczy in the Netherlands, circa 1970s. It features four brass legs, and a thick glass surface. The piece remains in wonderful condition w...

Rare Peter Ghyczy coffee table in very good condition. Made of solid brass with a glass top. The table has been fully polished. This table has been produced in very limited quanti...

Square coffee table by Peter Ghyczy. Solid brass legs and a thick glass plate. Architect and designer Peter Ghyczy, born in Hungary in 1940, graduated at the Technical University of...

A Peter Ghyczy circular coffee table with stepped iron legs and supports around a circular brass ball centre, which is stamped with the Peter Ghyczy logo of four squares. Mounted wit...

Large rectangular coffee table designed in the 1970s by Peter Ghyzcy in the Netherlands, T24 model. Brass feet, thick glass top (1,5cm). Very good condition, few scratches and traces...

These brass and glass side table was designed by Peter Ghyczy in the early 1970s in the Netherlands. Born in Budapest, Peter Ghyczy started his career as an architect in Germany. He ...