Art Deco High Side Table, France, 1930s

Design
1930s

Manufacture
1930-1939

Location
Lonigo, IT

Art Deco High Side Table, wood, France, 1930s

The structure of this side table is built around a single idea: four wooden ribs, curved and tapered, rise from a circular foot and converge at a chrome sphere before opening again to receive the top. There is no apron, no shelf, no secondary element. The table exists almost entirely as negative space held in tension by that central point of contact, and the effect is less decorative than it is taut.
Made in France in the 1930s, the design belongs to a current within French Art Deco that favored formal invention and kept ornament to a minimum. The darkly stained wood is dense-grained and close-pored, reading almost graphically against the ground; the chrome sphere, small and precise, acts as both joint and punctuation. The circular top completes the composition without adding to it.