Peter Ghyczy Iron and Brass Circular Coffee Table

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Square coffee table by Peter Ghyczy. Solid brass legs and a thick glass plate. Architect and designer Peter Ghyczy, born in Hungary in 1940, graduated at the Technical University of...

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...

Midcentury Industrial brass frame and smoked glass coffee table with raw construction appearance. In original condition with some visible wear, small chips to the glass and nice pati...

This coffee table was manufactured by Peter Ghyczy in the Netherlands, circa 1970s. It features four brass legs, and a thick glass surface. The piece remains in wonderful condition w...

Rare Peter Ghyczy coffee table in very good condition. Made of solid brass with a glass top. The table has been fully polished. This table has been produced in very limited quanti...

This is a very rare model coffee table, we contacted Peter Ghyczy, who told us that this table was issued once in 1990 for a large fair, the IMM in Cologne in the early 1990s. At that time 10 tables were made and this is one of them. Therefore, if you are a fan of Ghyczy, this can be a nice addition. Information about Peter Ghyczy. German designer Peter Ghyczy was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1940. After political turmoil, Ghyczy's family fled Budapest in 1956, first to Vienna and then to Bonn in Germany. Ghyczy completed his secondary education in Germany, studied sculpture in Düsseldorf before studying architecture at the Technical University of Aachen in 1960, specializing in structural engineering. He graduated in 1967 and wrote his thesis on unconventional school buildings. During his studies, Ghyczy worked as an assistant to the famous German architect Rudolf Steinbach (1903-1966) and on projects in Paris and Egypt. In 1969 he became a German citizen. After graduating, Ghyczy worked on a large number of designs by furniture makers and factories in Germany, including Vitra. Ghyczy's most successful design during this period was the Garden Egg Chair (1968) for Reuter, which remains one of his most recognizable designs today and is one of the earliest known examples of a hinged chair...