Rosewood console table, Italian manufacture, 1960s

Wooden console table, Mid-Century style Condition: Restored Materials: Wood Époque : 1950

Thick transparent plexiglass console table with glass top, 1980. Elegant and minimalist, this console table is distinguished by its remarkably thick plexiglass frame, which lends sta...

Console table with shelves and lateral decorative inlays entirely made in wood, designed by the French designer and craftsman Pierre Chapo, French Manufacture from 1960s Pierre Chapo was first interested in painting, his encounter with a shipbuilding carpenter in 1947, introduced him to wood and woodworking; and led him to architectural studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After traveling through Scandinavia, and Central America and working for a year in the United States, he returned to Paris and pursued his interest in wood, crafting furniture mainly out of solid oak, elm, ash or teak with a double concern for contemporary design and traditional know-how. He opened a gallery on boulevard de l'Hôpital in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, where along with his own creations, he displayed the work of other craftsmen or artists such as Isamu Noguchi with whom he shared a sculptural and organic approach to design. Special custom orders started coming in, Samuel Beckett...

1960s Italian gilt wood console. Wear to finish as shown in pictures.