Art Deco table; Brussels, around 1925. Macassar ebony. Wear and tear due to use and the passage of

Art Deco table; Brussels, ca. 1925.
Makassar ebony.
Needs refinishing. Wear and tear.
Measurements: 76 x 100 x 100 x 100 (closed); 76x 190 x 100 cm (with two extensions).
Can be combined with lot 35047215.
Dining table in Art Deco style, of great modernity in its shapes and design, stylised and geometric. It has a square top, with two extensions that allow its size to be practically doubled, with a softly moulded profile and a beautiful veining, typical of Makassar ebony. The tabletop sits on a narrow waist, set back from the profile of the tabletop, which reinforces the impression of lightness of the design. The table stands on four truncated pyramid-shaped legs, narrower towards the base, whose lines continue horizontally, forming a second waist that is wider than the upper one. Makassar ebony, with its two-tone vertical grain, is ideal for the geometric and rhythmic aesthetics of Art Deco. It is an exotic wood, originally from Indonesia, highly prized for fine joinery and particularly sought after in Japan, one of the rarest and most expensive in the world.
Art Deco developed from the 1920s onwards, although it enjoyed a long life thanks to the popularity of the cinema, which spread its aesthetic until the 1940s, covering almost the entire inter-war period. The Déco aesthetic is, in a sense, an amalgam of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century and, unlike Art Nouveau, it was influenced by the early avant-garde, notably Constructivism, Cubism, Futurism and even Bauhaus rationalism. However, it is fundamentally classical art, although it approaches classicism from a new point of view, based on archaeology and elementary aesthetic principles. Art Deco forms are idealised, balanced and proportioned, but at the same time synthetic and essential, far removed from the meticulous description of reality of the late 19th century.