Any Art Deco Furniture Gurus? What’s this table?

[derin100]

I didn’t really know on which forum to pose this question but here seems a good start.

So, I bought this table exactly 25 years in a Central Glasgow antiques shop. We bought it because we’d moved into a very 1930s house and were buying Art Deco furniture to suit.

I’ve always wondered what this table was actually for and how much it might be worth now. I have personally never seen another one like it. This dealer used to make regular trips to Denmark and sold quite a lot of Danish furniture, if that helps at all?

The wood appears to be a birds-eye maple.
The strange thing is it has four pull out shelves; two in each tier at opposites to each other, as per the photos. These have glass protective inserts in each and the top has also always had a thick, protective glass top.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Jonquil]

I'm no Art Deco expert but I agree it is in that style.
In fact, I'd say it has an air of the Bauhaus about it.

[dudleybloke]

Lovely piece.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

I don't know what it is but I do think it's a very attractive piece of furniture.

[Seventy]

It’s burr walnut. The slides are birdseye.

[nicanary]

Would it be a shop dsiplay unit from a VERY posh shop ?

[Oneball]

Deco coffee table with pull out slides/shelves

[derin100]

Seventy said:

It’s burr walnut. The slides are birdseye.

Ah….thank you!

[derin100]

nicanary said:

Would it be a shop dsiplay unit from a VERY posh shop ?

That’s a novel idea! Could have been.

[OzzyR1]

A few similar styles of varying prices via Google images:

https://lens.google.com/search?ep=gisbubb&hl=e...

Edited by OzzyR1 on Wednesday 21st June 20:15

[derin100]

dudleybloke said:

Lovely piece.

Thank you. Yes, it’s very nice. My photos don’t actually do it justice.

[derin100]

Oneball said:

Deco coffee table with pull out slides/shelves

Yes, that’s sort of the most obvious use….But, it seems a bit ‘elaborate’ and a bit of a ‘performance’ for just a coffee table…..???

[CharlesdeGaulle]

derin100. I've sent you a mail.

[Seventy]

derin100 said:

Seventy said:

It’s burr walnut. The slides are birdseye.

Ah….thank you!

I’d be interested if you’re selling.

It’s nice quality. The handles (I can’t see them at all well) could be bone, ivory or plastic. If ivory would benefit from an exemption now.

[derin100]

Seventy said:

I’d be interested if you’re selling.

It’s nice quality. The handles (I can’t see them at all well) could be bone, ivory or plastic. If ivory would benefit from an exemption now.

They look like some kind of early pink plastic. Not Bakelite but definitely not ivory either.

[derin100]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

derin100. I've sent you a mail.

Just replied🙂

[derin100]

OzzyR1 said:

A few similar styles of varying prices via Google images:

https://lens.google.com/search?ep=gisbubb&hl=e...

Edited by OzzyR1 on Wednesday 21st June 20:15

Thanks. Yes, I’d seen some of those before when I tried to research it. That other three tiered one near the beginning is similar but it does have or explain this strange complexity of these pull out shelves on mine.
It seems like so much precise extra effort must have gone into making those four shelves?

[Oneball]

derin100 said:

Oneball said:

Deco coffee table with pull out slides/shelves

Yes, that’s sort of the most obvious use….But, it seems a bit ‘elaborate’ and a bit of a ‘performance’ for just a coffee table…..???

It’s quite common. Some mid-century coffee tables the pull outs remove completely to act as trays.

Here’s a similar deco one.

[Ray100]

Don't know anything about art deco furniture but it's good to see you back.

[harrycovert]

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