Samuel Marx Verre Eglomise Cocktail Table

Solid round top with square section legs ending across the floor with an X. Bare surface slightly distressed, but still very attractive.

Artist/Designer: Samuel Marx (American, 1885-1964); Quigley Additional Information: Rotating coffee table has eight propeller-like shelves. Provenance: Provenance: Plotkin-Dresner R...

This vintage table made of natural coquina coral stone from the 1960s, was found in a Fisher Island estate. This coffee table is very uniquely designed; ...

Delightful and chic round coffee table with a scrolled wrought iron base with highly decorative detail and twisted gilt iron wood top surround. Gilding to base. Verre Eglomise´ mirrored table...

Chinese style Asia Modern mirrored coffee, or cocktail table in the style of Samuel Marx, Haines, Robbsjohn et al. Chinese Red finish, with inset mirror surface. This example shows ...

French Forties Art Deco coffee table by Maurice Jallot, circa 1947, in cream lacquer with original verre eglomise glass top and gilt bronze mounts. 40” long x 17” deep x 17” high. Pictured in Mobilier et Decoration, 1947. Maurice Jallot (1900-1971) Maurice Jallot was born in Paris during the 1900 Exposition Universelle – an auspicious beginning for a career in the arts. He studied at the Ecole Boulle in Paris and upon graduating, joined his father’s (Leon Jallot) studio in 1921. He left for a while to gain outside experience and rejoined the firm in 1930. A versatile and imaginative designer, Maurice Jallot exhibited a range of pieces and ensembles at the annual salons, some in partnership with his father and some singly. For the 1925 L'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes - the World's fair held in Paris, France, from April to October 1925 the Jallots provided furnishings for the Hotel du Collectionneur (grand salon), Ambassade Francaise, La Societe Noel, La Maison de Bretagne, and Gouffe Jeune. Their furniture in the 1920s was fabricated from woods – palisander, walnut, pearwood, amboyna, camphor. From the mid-1920s the Jallots faced the Challenge common to all woodworkers: whether to adjust to, or fight, the revolutionary introduction of glass and metal. They chose the former, introducing a distinctive range of modern furniture: stainless steel tables, mirrored cabinety, etc. Maurice participated in the interior decoration for A French Embassy...