Rare polished oak Coffee Table by Maxime Old

Fine and rare coffee table by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings in carved acacia wood with original glass top Stamped: Sans Epoque, Robsjohn-Gibbings Provenance: This table was created for the Brentwood, CA home of architect James Dolena. Dolena and Gibbings worked closely during this period on several projects including the very well-known home of Mrs. Hilda Boldt Weber, "Casa Encantada...

Contemporary hand-carved limed oak coffee table by Carol Egan.

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...

A beautiful oak and ceramic coffee table by famed French ceramist Jacques Blin, this piece features his beautiful, stripped down design aesthetic and his characteristic cave painting...

Maxime Old - A fine French three-tier sculptural coffee table / magazine rack in solid oak with a glass top.

Very elegant cherry tree coffee table by great French designer Maxime Old. This model was published in French magasin “Art et Décoration” 1948, ? 8, page 4.

Wooden coffee table after Maxime Old has a matchbook walnut veneer top that is supported by round dowels that go through the three suspended shelves ...

Customizable French 1940s-style (modern) makore veneered coffee table with a rounded rectangular top with brass trim, four legs, and stretcher base. (manner of MAXIME OLD) (CUSTOM SI...