Italian Brass Framed 1950s Emilio Martelli Scagliola Table

An unusual two-piece brass and Lucite coffee table, with moulded edge and curved shape with two organic cast brass supports signed by des...

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 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.

An Italian Mid-Century mirror by Fratelli Marelli. The glass plate stamped Fontana - Cantu. The inner frame embellished with the signs of the Zodiac and topped by a brass spider on t...

An unusual large bronze coffee or cocktail table with an oval glass top. The base with seabed verdigris finish and three patinated bronze swimming Sting Rays...

A very good quality table by Maison Jansen, with elaborate gold gilt supports in the Rococo manner, and a shaped top in parchment. Stamped Jansen underneath.

Italian hand painted top and Lucite coffee table attributed to Emilo Martelli. Stunning floral hand painted top on Lucite cylinder base, missing paint to small areas.

A chic and elegant 1950s Italian brass swan coffee table with swan head legs and original glass. Well-made and heavy. Dimensions base: Wid...

A beech and brass coffee table with inlays designed and produced in Italy c. 1950s.

Coffee table Marble top Brass base Italy 1950s.    

A wood, brass and glass coffee table or cocktail table, designed and produced in Italy, 1950s.

A teak, black-painted wood and brass coffee table designed and produced in Italy, 1950s.