Pierre Chareau
Designed by Pierre Chareau, re-edited by Galerie MCDE
Side table in hand-oxidized and blackened metal with three tabletops
One fixed tabletop and two swiveling tabletops
Closed: W 39 x D 26 x H 68 cm / W 15.4″ x D 10.2″ x H 26.8″
Opened: W 62 x D 50 x H 68 cm / W 24.4″ x D 19.7″ x H 26.8″
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Long before he built the Maison de Verre, his celebrated house of glass and steel, Pierre Chareau was already rethinking what furniture and lighting could do inside a room, and Fan Table carries that same conviction. As an ensemblier rather than a mere decorator, he never designed objects in isolation, but as instruments meant to shape atmosphere, direct light and choreograph the way a space is actually lived in.
The Fan Table lives up to its name: one fixed tabletop is joined by two swivelling leaves that fan outward in hand-oxidised, blackened metal, growing from a closed footprint of just 39 by 26 cm to a full 62 by 50 cm once opened. It is a small feat of mechanical choreography, letting a side table expand into a proper surface for drinks or a tray without ever leaving its corner.
“No house in France better reflects the magical promise of 20th-century architecture than the Maison de Verre,” wrote architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff in the New York Times about the groundbreaking project by Pierre Chareau. Arguably one of the most influential works of modern architecture, the « House of Glass » stands as the most innovative example of Chareau’s genius.
The visionary designer brought modernity into interior decoration by his pioneering use of wood, glass and metal. By the mid 1920s he had joined the prestigious Société des Artistes Décorateurs and, in 1929, he co-founded the “Union des Artistes Modernes”. With some of his like-minded peers – including Robert Mallet-Stevens and Jean-Michel Frank – he befriended the most sought-after artists of his time, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard and André Breton to name abut a few.
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Flint Terracotta
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Linterno Fabric : St Moritz/Nobili