Pair of Italian Mirrored and Lacquered Goatskin Console Tables

A pair of mid century modern bedside tables or night stands in beech and brass. Very well made with brass sabot feet, brass handles and accents. Sweeping stretcher beneath the draw a...

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...

Art Deco Pair of Console Tables by Kristian Krass, France 1935. high quality fully restored. high gloss lacquer, hand polished. chrome details in perfect condition. documentatation s...

Pair of Italian gilt-brass Mid-Century Modern side tables with glass tops, (circa 1970s). These elegant tables feature glass tops that are slightly Smokey with silvered bands around ...