A Coromandel Panel Mounted as a Low Table

A low table with an inset woven panel top surface and having two drawers, China, late 19th-early 20th century.

A French Odobey type turret clock, Morez, circa 1900. Now mounted with as a glass top table. Removable glass top. Can be returned to a working clock mechanism. With winder, pendu...

Arts and Crafts Panelled Oak Coffee or Low Table A stylish piece from the 1920s A superb oak Coffee Table with turned stretchered legs, this...

In the 1930s, Jean-Michel Frank designed a pair of low rectangular table in mica for the smoking room of his own apartment in Paris. Jean-Michel Frank's designs were produced by Comte, with Frank's approval. Combining the best of Frank and the best of Argentine tradition, the original mica low rectangular table was produced by Comte, circa 1936, in limed oak low table as a special commission for the founding partner of Comte, Jose “Pepe” Enrique Tivoli. Stamped on the underside with the Comte production number (see photos below). JMF's designs has been much imitated, however nothing compares to the quality and feel of the real thing. Jose Enrique Tivoli, always known as “Pepe”, was an architect and founder member of COMTE. In 1932, he joined Ignacio and Ricardo Pirovano and Mariano Mansilla Moreno, (an architect with whom he conceived some fine buildings such as the Association Cristiana de Jóvenes in the central San Nicolas...