Pair of consoles by Jean-Charles Moreux

Writing desk made of oak 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.

Polychrome ceramic plate with a design of stylized floral motifs in black, yellow, orange, brown and white. This plate is illustrated in: L'homme de Keramis, Charles Catteau de Dominique Corrieras, by Charles Catteau (1880-1966). Signed CH Catteau, D 954, NY, Boch Freres, Keramis Made belgium...

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...

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