Gold Leaf Side Tables

table with bronze leg and wooden top covered with gold leaf. Wear due to age and time of the table  

"Traccia" table, designed by Meret Oppenheim from 1936. Edited by Dino Gavina as part of the "Ultra mobile" collection in 1970. Composed of oval over finished in gold leaf and solid ...

Meret Oppenheim 'Traccia' table produced for Studio Simon's Collezione Ultramobili , Dino Gavina, Milan, circa 1972. The tabletop is in gold leaf with the characteristic bird tracks impressed on the surface, the underside is painted with deep bronze-gold coloured paint and is supported by slender bronze shafts in the form of bird legs. The first of the Studio Simon tables, unlike the later Cassini edition, had the feet welded to the shank just below the ankle as per this piece. The original table was exhibited by the Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim in 1939 for the Parisian gallery René Drouin...

Pedestal table "Traccia" by the Swiss designer Meret Oppenheim, Simon edition, Cassina. Serial production of the original 1939 Surrealist model. Lacquered wooden top with 24-karat ...

Pedestal table "Traccia" by the Swiss designer Meret Oppenheim, Simon edition, Cassina. Serial production of the original 1939 Surrealist model. Lacquered wooden top with 24-karat ...

Wonderful patinated Méret Oppenheim for Simon Gavina, 'Traccia' table, in bronze, gold leaf and wood, Italy, circa 1972.

A beautil and iconic Italian Side Table Mod. "Traccia" designed by Meret Oppenheim in 1936, edited by Simon Gavina. Composed of oval shape table top made of wood and covered with gold-leaf and made of solid bronze legs. Meret Oppenheim: An artist with a complex personality, a free and instinctive creativity, versatile in application of the various artistic techniques. After her move to Paris in 1932, she gets in contact with all the great masters of surrealism, such as Arp, Giacometti, Breton, Man Ray, Duchamp and Max Ernst who became her intimate companion. The surrealist movement had great influence in Oppenheim’s work but nevertheless she could create her own identity. Her most famous work “Déjeuner en fourrure” (Breakfast in fur), that was purchased by Alfred H. Barr from Charles Ratton Gallery for the MoMA in New York, dates back to these years. Back to Paris in 1939, she took part to the exhibition on “imaginary” furniture with Max Ernst and Leonor Fini; in that event, she presented the famous table with...

Pedestal table "Traccia" by the Swiss designer Meret Oppenheim, Simon edition, Cassina. Serial production of the original 1939 Surrealist model. Lacquered wooden top with 24-karat ...

Meret Oppenheim 'Traccia' table produced for Studio Simon's Collezione Ultramobili , Dino Gavina, Milan, circa 1972. The tabletop is in gold leaf with the characteristic bird tracks impressed on the surface, the underside is painted with deep bronze-gold coloured paint and is supported by slender bronze shafts in the form of bird legs. The first of the Studio Simon tables, unlike the later Cassini edition, had the feet welded to the shank just below the ankle as per this piece. The original table was exhibited by the Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim in 1939 for the Parisian gallery René Drouin...

"Traccia" table by Meret Oppenheim for Simon Collezione, circa 1970s.

Pedestal tables Traccia by the Swiss designer Meret Oppenheim, Simon edition, Cassina. Serial production of the original 1939 Surrealist model. Lacquered wooden top with 24-karat ...

Pedestal table "Traccia" by the Swiss designer Meret Oppenheim, Simon edition, Cassina. Serial production of the original 1939 Surrealist model. Lacquered wooden top with 24-karat g...