A rare “Santiago” table, designed by Mathieu Matégot

, designed by Mathieu Matégot in 1954/55, manufactured by the Société Matégot, metal tube, cut metal sheet, black lacquer coating, red and yellow coated metal discs, glass top, with incised monogram and numbered: M. M. EX 1/50 S, height 73 cm, 100 x 100 cm. (DRAX)

Provenance:
private ownership, Austria

Lit.:
P. Favadin, Mathieu Matégot, Paris 2014, pp. 146/47, p. 156, p. 250; Ph. Jousse, C. Mondineu, Mathieu Matégot, Paris 2003, pp. 106/7

With this design, Matégot left the archetype of the four-legged table behind, presenting an object characterised by an autonomous and sculptural language of form. The stand has been designed as a slanted board with irregularly arranged cut-outs. The load-bearing structure has become an abstract play of two-dimensional surface and opening in which no line runs parallel.