1920s Side 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...

A carved and veneered elm side table or coffee table designed and produced in Sweden, 1920s.

Side table in the Louis XVI style from France featuring a Carrara marble top and brass trim throughout. This piece has three dovetailed drawers and tapered; fluted legs. It has been ...

Classic French Art Deco small side table/bench by Ruhlmann, 1925, in solid macassar ebony, with new veneered inset top. This small table was used as a small bench and istogether wit...

French Modernist Art Deco three-tiered side/end/drinks table by Paul Follot, circa 1926, in mahogany and ebony, with vertical inlays. 20” square x 22” high. PAUL FOLLOT (1877 - 1958) Paris-born decorative artist and sculptor PAUL FOLLOT studied at Ecole Normale d'Enseignment du Dessin under Eugene Grasset. In his early graphic design work he was influenced by medieval and Pre-Raphaelite art. In 1901 he joined La Maison Moderne...

French Art Deco side in sculpted mahogany with quarter-matched top, circa 1925, by DIM (Joubert et Petit). 24” square x 21” high. DIM - Decoration ...

French Art Deco two-tiered low table by Paul Follot in mahogany and ebony, circa 1925. 21.5” square x 19” high. PAUL FOLLOT (1877 - 1958) Paris-born decorative artist and sculptor PAUL FOLLOT studied at Ecole Normale d'Enseignment du Dessin under Eugene Grasset. In his early graphic design work he was influenced by medieval and Pre-Raphaelite art. In 1901 he joined La Maison Moderne...

Satinwood Pull Out Side Table by Michel Dufet with figured square top, each side with a pull out drink slide France: circa 1929 Bibliography: "Art et Industrie...

Classic French Art Deco low round side/end/coffee table by Maurice Dufrene, circa 1925, in mahogany, burled mahogany and burled amboyna with marble top. Measures: 30” diameter x ...

French Modernist Art Deco side table by Andre Groult with Cubist marquetry in a variety of exotic hardwoods. Measures: 17" diameter x 22" high.  

Classic early French Art Deco side table with lift top, circa 1920, by Leon Jallot in rosewood with shagreen inlaid top. Restored and refinished.