Early 20th Century End Tables

Our table was made of birch, solid and veneered, stained a rich brown, and topped off with a slab of Bohemian breccia marble. We date it to around 1928, and attribute the design to Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot, who coined the term Kultivierte Sachlichkeit (Cultured Objectivity) to describe his work, and distinguish it from the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) practiced by his contemporaries Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Lily Reich. The table bears a passing resemblance to a considerably simplified, marble-topped ovoid one that he designed for his 1934 Berlin living room. Breuhaus was a man on the make. The first of his three marriages was to the daughter of an industrialist, who financed the building of luxury villas and workers’ housing designed by his son-in-law. In 1929, Breuhaus, the son of a dentist, added “de Groot” to his name, falsely linking himself to a distinguished family of painters. By then, he’d been fudging his academic record for years. That didn’t prevent a teaching appointment at the State University of Bavaria, which allowed him to add the prestigious “Herr Professor” prefix to his name. Yet he never followed through on the teaching — he was far too busy designing more luxury villas (commissions he accepted only if he could furnish them as well), and products for his own company, which included furniture, textiles, wallpapers, lighting, and fine silver. In addition to designing aircraft interiors for Lufthansa, and pullman railroad...

An Anglo Indian octagonal drinks table with wonderful carved grapes, grapeleaves and vines to top, and carved leaf design piercework to octagonal sides, in rich dark teakwood, with a...

An adjustable pine end table, designed and produced in Sweden, c. 1900.

Fine and stylish mahogany table, early 20th century, the round top with under chamfered edge over six hexagonal tapered legs joined by hexagonal shelf, and standing on cast bronze he...

Art Deco French oval-shaped end / side table with an opaque black glass top inset into a molded bronze frame in faux bamboo form with opposing demilune stretchers...

Early French Art Deco (transitional) tiered table by Leon Jallot in pearwood and camphor wood burl, circa 1910-12. 28” diameter x 29” high. Leon Jallot (1874-1967) Born in Nantes, July 24, 1874, Leon Jallot studied in Paris but did not go to any school of art. Without any formal training, other than a general refined sense of culture, he opened his own workshop at age 16 and began wood sculpting and making his own furniture.Strictly self-disciplined, he began as a wood carver. By 1899, at the age of just 24, he had worked his way to become Director of the Art Nouveau workshop of the collector, Siegfried Bing, for his shop called l’Art Nouveau in Paris. He remained there until 1901, overseeing production for the shop as well as Bing’s installation at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition. Jallot therefore participated in the creation of some of the Art Nouveau movement’s most prized works – those designed by the firm’s renowned threesome: Georges de Feure, Eduoard Colonna, and Eugene Gaillard. In 1901 Jallot became one of the founding members of the first Salon of Societe des Artistes Decorateurs – an organization which produced highly anticipated annual exhibitions through the first half of the 20th Century. In 1903 he established his own decorating workshop where he designed and fabricated furniture, fabrics, carpets, tapestries, glassware, lacqueer and screens. Jallot was the first of the Art Nouveau designers to turn away from floral ornamentation and to pursue linearism – as early as 1904 his decoration was limited to the natural grain of the wood – and he was an advocate of rich materials rather than over-wrought forms to suggest luxury. Jallot’s work was shown at the Salons of Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1908, Salon d’Automne from 1919, and at the SAD throughout. A review of his exhibit at the 1921 Salon des Artistes Decorateurs, in Art et Decoration, said: “His furniture has the easy elegance of ideas created in a flash and then mulled over – ingenuity, savoir-faire, and patience are all combined in his work.” He created furniture for the Grand Salon of Une Ambassade Francaise and Hotel du Collectionneur at the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes (which would, years later, launch the term “Art Deco”). From 1921, Leon Jallot partnered with his son, Maurice (see Maurice Jallot’s biography elsewhere on the Calderwood Gallery...

Elegant French oak and parchment gueridon in the Viennese secession style. an interesting blend of JMF touches, parchment, raw oak on a classic Viennese form with round top, 5 pillar...

English oak and leather Arts & Crafts stool having thick tanned leather seat with over scale brass studs, over "cup and cover" turned legs with reeded tops, joined by stretcher base,...

Early Classic French Art Deco side table/small cabinet by Lahalle et Levard, circa 1920. 19.5” wide x 12” deep x 26” high, in purple heart, boxwood, other exotic hardwoods, mother-of...

French Modernist Art Deco side/end table by Eric Bagge, circa 1928, in sculpted mahogany with burled mahogany tier and parquetry top. Measures: 32.5" wide x...

French Louis XVI-style (1940s) round end table with 2 drawers and 2 pullout side shelves with leather surface and a white marble top having a...

French Louis XV-style (19/20th Century) walnut round end table with open stretcher and white and green marble top.

2 early 20th century Italian Renaissance style iron low end tables having a gold glass top supported on 4 sabers resting on a rectangular base (Priced Each).

A vertical cast iron swage block.

French Louis XV-style (19/20th Century) gilt rectangular end table with pink inset marble top

Pair of French Art Deco Corinthian column-form taborets / end table bases in embossed brass over wood with floral and scroll design. (PRICED AS Pair)

French Louis XV-style (19/20th Century) walnut rectangular end table with stretcher and marble top.

American Art Deco natural wicker and oak top narrow oval end table with decorative trim.

Bentwood (19/20th Century) stripped end table with cross leg design base and round wood top

French Art Deco, 1930s cherrywood square end table with an inset beige and light green shagreen top and bottom shelf with an octagonal design.   

Pair of Bentwood Vienna Secession (1905) ebonized beech wood square end tables with an "X" form stretcher base. (designed by GUSTAV SIEGEL; marke...

Pair of Italian Neo-classic-style (19/20th Century) steel rectangular end tables with double scroll design sides and "X" form stretcher with specimen marble tops. (PRICED AS Pair)

Pair of French Mid-Century (1940s) ebonized low end tables with an inset gold glass top and gilt trim with an open design stretcher (Attributed to MAISON JANSEN) (PRICED AS Pair)

French Art Nouveau mahogany floral inlaid rectangular end table with gallery and shelf. (LOUIS MAJORELLE)

A magnificent, soulful and uncommon diminutive table or pedestal carved from a single block of richly toned African hardwood and having incised cris-cross patterning around the perim...

Art Deco walnut table with chrome base.

Pair of cube tables with zebrawood tops.

Center or side table. Pictured in original period documentation.

Art Deco walnut table.

Wrought iron coffee table after E Brandt, the frame is detailed with extensive Hammer work distinctive of the period, the new top is clad in genuine Shagreen. The top can be customiz...