Jean-Charles Moreux Footstool/Bench

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...

Niccolini gilt iron bench, Italian, 1950s. Measures: 39" wide x 14" deep x 24" high.

Settee version from Moreux's celebrated group of wrought iron furniture, with gold over boulle. Wonderful patina to surfaces. A fine example fro...

Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Parcel Gilt Painted Bench or Footstool with later blue and white checked upholstery, parcel gilt painted frame, rising on cabriole legs