Jean-Charles Moreux. Console in carved oak and marble. 1940s.

Louis XVI style console, the carved and gilded wooden base in a top shape, tapered and fluted, decorated with acanthus leaves in the upper part, joined by a spacer bar decorated with...

Console in cream lacquer with three trays standing on four fluted legs in gilt bronze. Contemporary work.    

French Art Deco low table, circa 1938, designed by Jean-Charles Moreux and executed in cerused oak with travertine marble top. 31” wide x 19” deep x 20” high. JEAN-CHARLES MOREUX (1889-1956) French architect and designer Jean-Charles Moreux was born in 1889 at the Chateau de Joncy in Saone-et-Loire. He studied at l’Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris (1914-22) where he spent the period during World War I working on the preservation of works of art. While attending l’Ecole he became friends with the architect Jean Lurcat and his brothers, Andre and Paul Vera. In 1924 he exhibited his first pieces of furniture at the Salon d’Automne. He had a preference for poetic living spaces and felt that people deserved better than Corbusier’s “machines for living in”. He was anxious to introduce aspects of the marvelous into architecture and living spaces. His creations drew upon the classical, baroque, and rococo styles. Moreux’s well-known clients included the Baron Robert de Rothschild and Bolette Natanson...

A grand French mahogany and parcel-gilt console table, circa 1940s, the shaped onyx marble atop a serpentine-shaped frieze, raised on four legs with fluted details, possibly Maison J...