Oak Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Tilework executed by B. Danikowski Robert Guillerme placed equal emphasis on function and aesthetics, creating a look as staid as it was arresting. While his work was in many ways...

Robert Guillerme studied design and architecture at the École Boule, graduating in 1934. After the Second World War he moved to Lille, in the north of France, where he decorated homes and designed furniture for the well regarded Rogier workshops. In 1948 Jacques Chambron left his work as a painter and decorator on the Rue Nollet in Paris, and relocated his family to join Guillerme. The two had met in 1940 while imprisoned by the Germans in East Prussia and bonded over, among other more obvious things, their shared passion for design. In 1949 the pair discovered Émile Dariosecq, a master cabinet maker who had a shop in the city, and who was willing to produce their designs. The three started Votre Maison. The association was destined to be as influential as prolific. Not only did Votre Maison produce over two thousand models during the later half of the twentieth century, it also left an indelible stamp on design of the 50s, 60s and 70s. The company’s output served as a model for a vast field of livable contemporaneous design. The soul of Guillerme et Chambron’s work was in the company’s name (“Your House"). Their focus was as keenly attuned to functionality—furniture’s use in daily life—as to the creation of innovative design. For the pair of designers the home was envisioned as a place where the family could live both comfortably and in aesthetic harmony. Robert Guillerme, who designed most of the work, possessed a limitless creative ambition, producing designs for everything from grand dressers and sideboards to the smallest elements of a space, such as pedestals, shelving, benches, and lighting. This steady output of beautiful furniture bucked convention not merely in the equal emphasis Guillerme placed on function and aesthetics, but in the almost paradoxical creation...

This striking rectangular coffee table was designed by Jacques Chambron and Robert Guillerme in the 1960s. It was produced by their company Votre Maison in Northern France. This part...

Edition table Josette. Tilework executed by B. Danikowski. Robert Guillerme placed equal emphasis on function and aesthetics, creating a look as staid as it was arresting. While hi...

1960s French Guillerme and Chambron Design Modular Coffee Table Bar Cabinet: you can use it as a little coffee or cocktail table and with its sliding and flapping side system you can...

Guillerme et Chambron, Large coffee table in oak and ceramic, circa 1970 Edition Votre Maison.

Coffee table in solid oak by Guillerme et Chambron and ceramics by Danikowski circa 1965 Nice Danikowsky's ceramics, blue and red on black tiles figuring ...

Guillerme Et Chambron, Grande table de salon en chêne et lave émaillée de Boleslaw Danikowski circa 1970. Edition Votre Maison

Guillerme Et Chambron, table de salon en chêne et marbrite circa 1950 Edition Votre Maison

Guillerme and Chambron, rare coffee table, Edition "Votre Maison" circa 1970 Oak table, top made of enamelled lava tiles by Boleslaw Danikowski.

Tilework executed by B. Danikowski Guillerme placed equal emphasis on function and aesthetics, creating an aesthetic as staid as it was arresting. While his work was in many ways ...

This coffee table was designed by the iconic French design duo Guillerme et Chambron. The high quality and distinctive skeletal open frame construction features simple and dynamic ...

Robert Guillerme studied design and architecture at the École Boule, graduating in 1934. After the Second World War he moved to Lille, in the north of France, where he decorated home...

Dimensions for each element. Tilework executed by B. Danikowski. Robert Guillerme placed equal emphasis on function and aesthetics, creating a look as staid as it was arresting. W...

This pair of midcentury, polished light oak reading tables by the celebrated French designer Robert Guillerme, was created as part of a line of desi...

Guillerme et Chambron, rare coffee table in oak and ceramics modele "Mortagne", circa 1955, Edition Votre Maison.

Guillerme et Chambron, rare coffee table in oak and ceramics modele "Mortagne", circa 1955, Edition Votre Maison.

Robert Guillerme et Jacques Chambron, oak gueridon Stanislas model with ceramics. Table with two positions system: Can be gueridon or dining table (up and down system). Edition Vot...

Guillerme et Chambron, oak and ceramic coffee table. Edition Votre Maison, 1970.