Circular Glass ’Snake’ coffee table by Knut Hesterberg for Ronald Schmitt

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...

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 large gold gilt wrought iron three legged coffee table by Maison Ramsay. The scrolled console legs with sweeping supports to centre acorn finial. The Asymmetrical design with clear...

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.

1960’s Space Age Coffee / Couch Table By Knut Hesterberg for Ronald Schmitt. Reinforced glass tabletop with aluminium base Designer: Knut Hesterberg Producer: Ronald Schmitt Measurem...

The Snake Coffee Table by Knut Hesterberg – a timeless masterpiece of flowing form and minimalist aesthetics. Where art meets function. A sculptural aluminum base and thick glass top...

Sculptural Snake Coffee Table designed by Knut Hesterberg for Ronald Schmidt, Germany 1970's The table features organic shaped aluminium base and a freestanding round tinted glass t...

Snake Coffee Table by Knut Hesterberg for Ronald Schmidt, Germany 1970er