Michel Boyer, Rare Minimal Coffee Table in Stainless Steel and Smoked Glass 1973

A steel and smoked glass coffee table designed and produced in Italy, 1970s.

A steel, glass and blue-lacquered wood coffee table designed by Tommi Parzinger and produced by Parzinger Originals, USA, 1950s.

A prototype red altuglas side table designed and produced by Michel Boyer & Jean-Pierrre Laporte, France, 2009. Produced for an exhibition at Silvera in 2009.

A very rare modular walnut coffee table, Model 4651, designed by George Nelson and produced by Herman Miller in 1946.

A pair of smoked glass & stainless steel table lamps designed and produced in Italy, 1970s.

A polished stainless steel coffee table designed and produced by Silas Seandel, New York, America, 1968. Signed.

Minimalistic brushed steel and smoked glass coffee table in the style of Michel Boyer.

Minimalistic brushed steel and smoked glass coffee table in the style of Michel Boyer.

Beautiful minimalist sculptural form ' MBR 03' coffee table designed in 1968 by French master designer Michel Boyer for Rouve, Paris. Michel Boyer designed a small series of 'MBR' white laminate tables with varying overall dimensions and proportions of inset storage compartments but all based on the same theme. These tables were produced in small numbers in 1968 by the high end Avant Garde manuacturer Rouve who were based in Rue Bonaparte in Paris. Please see copy of original Rouve advert (image 2) which documents this exact model, the 'MBR 03'. The table is high quality and extremely heavy for its dimensions, finished in elegant white laminate with elegant detailing such as the rounded corners and inset storage compartments, for bottles, plants, magazines etc which add greatly to the overall sculptural form. The white minimalist form is supported on a hardwood plinth and clearly shows influences from the 'Groupe de Recherche d'art Visuel' artists based in Paris who were creating experimental works in both kinetic and op art during the same period as well as the scene eminating out of the 'Galerie Rene Denise' who were exhibiting these key 1960s artworks  One of Michel Boyer's most famous interior design projects was for the interior of the Rothschild bank in Paris in 1970, please see image 6, where he installed a number of his white laminate 'MBR' tables alongside a series of dramatic wall hung 'Espaces chromatiques carrés' kinetic cubic light sculptures by the artist Gregorio Vardanega...

Black glass table - Michel Boyer Edition: Roche Bobois 4 swivelling trays circa 1990 Measures: Diameter 130cm Height 48cm 1500€.

Mid-Century Modern squared chromed steel table with smoked glass top, Spain, 1970s. Interesting as coffee table or end / side table near a sofa. The chromed steel has been cleaned an...

A solid polished stainless steel base with a new smoked inset glass top coffee/cocktail table by Brueton.