A Gilt-Brass Mounted and Inlaid Center Table With Unusual Parquet Pattern Gold Travertine Top By Louis Majorelle

May 26 2009, 3:03pm

The design of this remarkable table, which is inlaid with the signature MAJORELLE NANCY on the inside of one of its legs, places its maker, Louis Majorelle, in the vanguard of the stylistic developments of the early 1900s. A table of the same form appears in a photograph of Majorelle's workshop, taken sometime between 1903 and 1908, when Majorelle and his contemporaries were mostly still working in the Art Nouveau style. The table's distinctive rectilinear design, with geometric inlay to its legs and the striking parquet pattern to its marble top, would have been extremely progressive for its time, and encapsulated a sense of modernity.