Cerused Oak Coffee Table Attributed to Jean Charles Moreux

With faceted shadow onyx top. Ships from New York. (Local pickup and delivery available.) ? Measurements? 30" H x 59" D ? Origin ? Italian, c. 1970.  

With painted, distressed wood and leather seats. ? Height ? 37" ? Width ? 20" ? Depth ? 19"

A fine Art Deco low coffee table Attributed to Jean-Charles Moreux dating from the 1940s. A pioneer of the Art Deco Neo-Baroque movement, Moreux’s work merges natural and primitive form with playful Surrealist imagery. Known for his use of shell, plaster, exotic woods and the forged iron from which this piece is cast, Moreux has finely crafted a smooth, stepped rectangular top to mount the glass surface, resting this on the bold heads of four pulling horses...

Mahogany veneered coffee table raised on four wide out-scrolled legs, connected by a thick bar which runs parallel to the table edge. Similar gueridon pictured in Susan Day’s Jean-Ch...

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...

DESCRIPTION: Art deco coffee table by Jean-Charles Moreux made with oak and opaline glass. CONDITION: Very good vintage condition. Wear consistent with age and use. DIMENSIONS: He...

Art Deco coffee table, sofa table in the style of Jean Charles Moreux. Features a forged iron & ebonized base with brass detail and a mirrored glass top with gilt etched Decor. Bou...

Antique coffee table by Jean Charles Moreux (1889-1956) made with black background of Scagliola (fine plaster). The top is decorated with stylized images ...