Jean Touret for the Marolles Workshop, Coffee Table, Wood, circa 1980, France

Jean Touret (1916-2004) for the Marolles workshop, Four-light floor lamp model « Girouette », Wrought iron beaten with rooster decoration and under each light the initial of the four cardinal points, Tripod base, With four lampshades, Circa 1950, France. Measures : height 190.5 cm, width 41.91 cm, depth 55.88 cm. Jean Touret is a French sculptor, whose mainly religious work, uses wood and metals to achieve sometimes monumental sculptures (statuary, altars, organ buffets). His art that remains figurative but at the limit of abstraction, coincides with the movement back to the liturgical simplicity that Vatican II. Jean Touret is also known as designer. At the beginning of his career, in the Loir et Cher, he set up a craft cooperative "The Artisans de Marolles...

Coffee Table with removable iron top, The lacquer tray decorated with a Greek scene, circa 1980. Measures: Width 62 cm, Depth 38 cm, Height 43 cm.

Set of four coffee tables in the style of Paul Dupré-Lafon, iron base and granite top, France, circa 1980. Provenance: Courtyard garden Terrasses of "Palais de la Méditerranée," N...

In the style of Pierre Chapo, important coffee table, Wood decorated with lattice work in its centre, Rectangular tray, H base and spacer, F...

Coffee table in straw marquetry, Foot in the shape of fasces, France, circa 1960. Measures: Width 70 cm, depth 51 cm, height 51 cm.

Iron coffee table, smoked glass, circa 1940, France. Height 39 cm, width 146 cm, depth 55 cm.

In the style of Jean Touret (Atelier Marolles) coffee table.

Stamped "Marolles." Edition of 20 Jean Touret moved to Pezay, a rural area near Marolles, in 1946. While there, he became highly conscious of the uncertainty that Industrial development would bring to the future of the local craftsmen. Believing strongly in the value of the artisan...

Jean Touret & the Artisans of Marolles - A fine mid-century rectangular dining table with a wrought iron base that supports a solid oak top adorned with wrought iron nails.

Stamped "Marolles." Jean Touret moved to Pezay, a rural area near Marolles, in 1946. While there, he became highly conscious of the uncertainty that industrial development would bring to the future of the local craftsmen. Believing strongly in the value of the artisan...

A vintage 1960s gauged oak side table attributed to Jean Touret for Atelier Marolles, France.

French Brutalist elm coffee table by Atelier Marolles. This handsome hand carved French elm rectangular coffee table or cocktail table is a stunning example of the craftsmen at the A...