Ado Chale Style Brutalist Coffee Table, France, 1970

Amazing brutalist shaped coffee table made in France 1960s. Tis stunning sculpted, diabolo shaped coffee table, has a solid oak base. The base consists of different parts of solid oa...

Nice Hollywood Regency style coffee table designed by Jean Claude Mahey and manufactured by Studio Mahey, France, 1970. The sofa has burl wood veneer with gloss finish. The details a...

Striking coffee table designed by Giuseppe Scapinelli and manufactured in his workshop in Brazil, 1950. This sculptural shaped coffee table is made of very dark and deep coloured ros...

Beautiful coffee table with graphic engraved pattern by Heinz Lilienthal and made in his own atelier, Germany 1975. The table is made of beautiful quality solid black slate and has a...

Beautiful and eye catching Italian Coffee table from 1950. Just a beautiful one piece brass casting made in the style of Fontana Arte, or at least heavily influenced by it's founder,...

Highly versatile coffee table designed by Carlo Hauner and manufactured by Forma, Italy 1961. This coffee table has a white painted plywood structure, and it has seven tops with a bl...

Ado châle table “goutte d’eau” bronze Belgium circa 1980 signed. Iconic bronze table "goutte d'eau "by Belgium artist ado Chale. 3 feet in metal Very good...

Ado Chale ‘‘Pastilles’’ illuminated coffee table, 1983 Mosaic of cornaline agate stones and resin H. 35 x 150ø cm Son of a woodworker, Ado Chale spent his formative years in the Belgian countryside and began working with metal at a young age, training initially as an iron-worker. In the 1950s, he began working with sheet metal on which he would test various methods of printing with enamel. However, it was on a trip to Germany that he found his true passion: mineralogy. Stones, precious and semi-precious as well as fossils and other natural minerals, became the focal point of his self-taught artistic path. In 1961, Chale opened a mineral shop in Brussels where he showed his first creations featuring inclusions of marcasite, a dark stone he discovered on the beaches of the Cape of Blanc- Nez in northern France. By 1965, these creations had garnered significant attention and he began to widen the range of his creations. He began working with a great variety of stones and fossilized wood and developing new techniques, one of the most remarkable of which is featured in the ‘‘Pastilles’’ coffee table: the integration of light. Noticing the transformation of certain stones when lit from a certain angle, Chale aimed to demonstrate the delicate details that remained hidden without this illumination. With this objective in mind, he began integrating lighting systems beneath the mosaic tops of his coffee tables, a rare technique of which Chale was a true pioneer. Beyond the striking effect achieved through the illumination of his tables, Chale’s mastery in mosaic resulted in truly unique tabletops - no two mosaics exactly the same. Over the years, Chale’s creations found their way into some of the world’s most prestigious collections, both private and public, including those of the British royal family, the King of Saudi Arabia, Belgium’s King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola, and Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of Ado Chale’s creation, an occasion celebrated with a landmark exhibition at the Galerie Yves Gastou.

Round Ado Chale Coffee Table, Oeil de Tigre, Belgium

Black resin coffee table sitting on a wooden base with inset agate, designed by Ado Chale. Signed 'Chale' to the front with a ruby. Ado Chale ...

A "Goutte D’eau", aluminum and black metal coffee table designed and produced by Ado Chale, Brussels, Belgium, 1970s.

Ado Chale early rare "Goutte d'eau" oval coffee table with cast bronze table top on two sets of tripod black lacquered metal bases. This exquisite sculptural coffee table was made by...