Mid-Century Peter Ghyczy Smoked Glass and Raw Brass Coffee Table

Dutch Mid-Century, 1970's brass and glass coffee table by acclaimed designer Peter Ghyczy. Ghyczy studied architecture with an industrial design background at the Polytechnic Univers...

Square coffee table with thick clear Lucite legs and smoked glass top from Roche Bobois. Since its founding in 1950, Roche Bobois has emerged as a prominent figure in furniture desig...

Square top in white carrera glass with architectural aged brass base in the manner of Paul McCobb, The Irwin Collection, American, 1950s. The glass is in excellent condition; the bas...

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...