Jean Michel Frank Style Cerused Oak Dressing Table

A rare desk with a oak decape distressed finish and moldings by Jean-Michel Frank. Number 13395.

A beautiful French 1940s desk in oak with pull out extendable side leaves and double sided lockable centre drawer, supported on top and tailed U-shaped legs, finished with brushed ni...

A striking tiger oak dressing table dating from the 1930s, featuring a shaped triple mirror, serpentine front and elegant cabriole legs. The bold quarter-sawn tiger oak grain is show...

Art Deco style executive desk with two deep drawers in oak and bronze accents. Desk writing surface inset is naugahyde. An exceptional piece as a desk or library table. THIS ITEM I...

French Maison Jansen Attributed Cerused Oak Desk. Stunning French cerused oak or limed oak desk, writing table, bureau plat or center table with a single drawer attributed to Maison...

Solid oak wood console table with parchment-covered top. Structure in solid oak with rectangular parchment-covered top. Sides with subtle scrolled ends. Raised on four slender, tape...

This Boiceau desk bears his stamp, and was entirely veneered in amboyna, an exotic burlwood named for Ambon, the Indonesian island where it was harvested. The naturally squiggling patterning of the veneer provides an overall surface decoration. The top alone has no fewer than 60 small book-matched squares of it – ten across and six deep – creating a kaleidoscopic effect in subtle monochrome. Applied decoration is minimal. It consists of two inlaid pairs of griffins in boxwood and purplewood facing off across braziers on both the front and the back of the desk, and blind-tooled Greek keys trimming white-leather-topped shelves that slide out to either side. These decorations introduce no color, and, in lying flush with the surface, leave the sleek form undisturbed. Boiceau even eliminated drawer pulls, necessitating a lock and key for each drawer. Born in Lausanne in 1881, Boiceau descended from French Huguenots who had settled in Switzerland. Prominent as bankers, lawyers, businessmen, and diplomats, the Boiceaus were a cosmopolitan family. Ernest studied painting in Munich, and then painting and architecture in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1900 he embarked on a ten-year European sojourn, painting landscapes and portraits along the way. In 1910 he resettled in Paris, became interested in textiles, and established an embroidery workshop that catered to the stage and haute couture. Among his clients were the Folies Bergères, the Comédie-Française, and the Paris Opéra, and the fashion houses of Worth and Molyneux. He also made embroidered table linens, wall hangings, and upholstery fabrics. In a 1913, at an embroidery exhibition in Paris at the Musée Galliera, he presented a boudoir in collaboration with curtains, upholstery fabrics, and a tapestry, embroidered in modern abstract designs. In 1925 he launched a couture line, and branched out to design finely crafted objects and furniture made in rare woods, like ebony and Tasmanian oak...

The Voltaire Desk reflects the disciplined beauty of mid-century French ateliers. Handmade and hand-finished in wire-brushed oak, it reveals dimensional grain and structured proporti...

Art Deco oak console or table and table, circa 1930 Measures: 73 x 96 x 55 cm or 70 x 110 x 96 cm Some water spots on the closed tray.

Original vanitie and its Art Deco stool in sycamore, circa 1940-1950. Small lack of veneer in one corner (see photo) Varnish to redo.