By Meret Oppenheim
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Logistics and International Shipping
We provide a comprehensive export service so that your only concern is enjoying your acquisition.
• Door-to-Door Service: Pieces located in our Argentina galleries are shipped directly to your address via air freight.
• Simplified Customs Management: We handle the processing of export permits and the payment of customs duties. You will receive your purchase without additional paperwork or surprise costs.
• High-Security Packaging: Following FedEx international standards, each piece is protected in custom-made wooden crates, designed to withstand 1-meter impacts and ensure the integrity of the object during transit.
• Note for shipments to the USA: To comply with shipping company regulations and ensure delivery at the destination, a valid tax ID (EIN, SSN, or ITIN) is required.
• Domestic US Shipping: For those pieces available in our United States storage, logistics are managed through 1stdibs.
Personalized Restorations
Our team of expert artisans offers restoration services tailored to your aesthetic preferences and design needs:
• Cabinetry and Polishing: We perform polishing work on woods, allowing for transitions from light to dark tones (including deep black finishes).
• Upholstery: We reupholster chairs and armchairs with fabrics or leathers of your choice, guaranteeing a high-quality finish.
• Lighting: We adapt ceiling lamps by shortening smooth rods to adjust them to the height of your rooms.
• Metal Treatment: * Restoration of chromed or silver-plated bronze pieces to their original state.
o Chroming or silver-plating services for bronze objects.
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste.
The two tables have different heights
Material: wood and bronze
Style: Art Deco
Country: France
If you want to live in the golden years, this is the tables that your project needs.
We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982.If you have any questions we are at your disposal.
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Meret Oppenheim
Meret Oppenheim -Traccia Table - The person and the works of German-Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) are forever associated with surrealism and 20th century art history.
Meret Oppenheim, in full Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim, (born October 6, 1913, Berlin, Germany—died November 15, 1985, Basel, Switzerland), German-born Swiss artist whose fur-covered teacup, saucer, and spoon became an emblem of the Surrealist movement. The piece, created when Oppenheim was just 23 years old, became so famous that it overshadowed the rest of her career.
Oppenheim’s father was German and Jewish and her mother was Swiss. In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, the family moved from Germany to Switzerland. Oppenheim was encouraged by her father and by her maternal grandmother, author and illustrator Lisa Wenger-Ruutz, to pursue art. Thus, in 1929 she began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel (through 1930). She then moved to Paris and briefly attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1932.
Being in Paris offered Oppenheim the opportunity to connect with leading avant-garde artists, which, more than schooling, gave her entrée into the art world. In 1933 she met Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray, André Breton, and Jean (Hans) Arp. Oppenheim was quickly absorbed into the Surrealist circle and exhibited three paintings at the Salon des Surindépendants in Paris in 1933. Soon after meeting Man Ray, she became his muse and modeled for images such as Érotique Voilée (1933; “Erotic Veiled”), in which she appeared nude behind...
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1930s Art Deco Vintage French Sofa Tables