Art Deco Oak Pedestal Dining Table with Parquetry Top
Art Deco Oak Pedestal Dining Table with Parquetry Top
The rectangular top inlaid with an ambitious geometric parquetry pattern in oak veneers of contrasting grain and tone, arranged in a large-scale interlocking stepped diamond or point de Hongrie design creating a bold optical rhythm across the entire surface, within a plain moulded edge of rounded profile; supported on a central pedestal base of sculptural conception, comprising a central cylindrical column flanked by four sweeping curved bracket supports of U-form, each of solid oak with gently rounded edges, the ensemble springing from a shaped oval platform base of corresponding rounded form, the whole in golden honey-toned oak with good natural patina throughout.
The present table exemplifies the mature French Art Deco preoccupation with geometric surface enrichment and sculptural base design that characterised the finest ébénisterie exhibited at the Salons of the Société des Artistes Décorateurs throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s. The use of oak — in preference to the exotic veneers favoured by the grand luxe ateliers of Ruhlmann or Süe et Mare — situates this table within the more austere, rationalist current of Deco production associated with designers working for the bourgeois domestic market, where structural clarity and the inherent beauty of native French timber were prized over exotic materials. The sweeping curved bracket supports of the pedestal, with their almost organic fluidity, anticipate the biomorphic tendencies that would emerge more fully in the post-war period.
French, circa 1930
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