Brutalist circular coffee table, raw wood slate stone patchwork, France 1980s

This magnificent and highly collectible coffee table is an authentic piece by the renowned French ceramist Roger Capron (1922-2006), created in his studio in Vallauris during the mid...

Exceptional light coffee table by the architect André Kulesza, hammered wrought iron and polychrome stained glass crystals. The fragments of glass crystals have been carefully selected and combined harmoniously to represent an abstract design. The glass crystals are fixed on reinforced glass and protected by a window which acts as a table top. the base is reminiscent of a spider, the 4 feet merge in the center and under the glass crystals to support the light diffuser. Incredible work of art. The architect André Kulesza (1913 - 2012) known as the Polish Le Corbusier, carried out this unique production in parallel with the construction of the Polish church in Lens (city in the north of France) of which he was the architect, to commemorate the thousand years of Christianity in Poland. This table is like a masterpiece. Height: 18.11 inch / 46 cm Width: 24.21 inch / 61.5 cm Length: 24.21 inch / 61.5 cm Good condition. circa 1966 The passionate life of André Kulesza, patriot and architect. André Olgierd Kulesza passed away in February 2012, at the age of 89. If the name of this Valdericourtian doesn't mean anything to you, his architectural achievements are certainly not unknown, mainly in the north of France. The town center of Noyelles-lès-Vermelles, buildings in Noeux-les-Mines, the Ephad (accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people) in Sailly-Labourse or Violaines, the Millenium church in Lens and many more Other achievements in France and around the world have marked the career of this Polish immigrant whose destiny was shaken by History. It must be said that André O. Kulesza already had unusual parents. His mother, from the Polish nobility having lost part of her family massacred by the Bolsheviks in 1917 and taking refuge with her aunt in Poznan, attended Paderewski, Marie Curie and became a painter; in 1919, speaking excellent French, she worked for the French military mission in Warsaw and a young captain named Charles De Gaulle. Later, she would be a member of the Polish Resistance...

This 1980s brutalist coffee table from Germany features a striking oak cross frame with mosaic tiles on top. Its elegant base softens the bold design, making it less overwhelming whi...

Brutalist Slate and Stone Coffee Table in the Style of Paul Kingma, 1970s A striking Brutalist coffee table in the manner of Dutch artist Paul Kingma, dating to the 1970s. The circu...