5th Aug, 2026 11:00

Design & Contemporary
 
Lot 47
 
Lot 47 - Art Deco, France, to a Jean-Michel Frank design
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Art Deco, France, to a Jean-Michel Frank design
Inverted 'U' Table

1934
Oak veneer
Underside stamped 15783
54cm high x 56cm wide x 30cm wide

Provenance:
The collection of Mo Amelia Teitelbaum
Mo is a collector, researcher and author who specialises in the period that Jean-Michel Frank spent in the South Americas. She has dedicated much of her life to researching this once forgotten and underappreciated time in Frank's period of creativity. It was in Argentina that his friendship with the Chillian patron, collector and muse Eugenia Errazuriz deepened and he met Ignacio Pirovano, the man he would go on to found COMTE with.
Mo has penned two fascinating books on this period of Frank's life; The Stylemakers, Minimalism and Classic Modernism 1915-1945 and Jean-Michel Frank, Une Aventure Sud-Américaine. Both much lauded by Jean-Michel Frank collectors and enthusiasts of this period of Design and Modernism.
Chiswick Auctions would like to thank the Mo for allowing us to present the current work to auction, we feel privileged to have the opportunity to offer such a rare and important piece of Jean-Michel Frank's design history.
Notes:

This low “inverted U” table was made in France for Jose Enrique Tivoli, an architect and founding partner of COMTE. He knew J M Frank well and they were together in Paris in 1939, with the Pirovano family. On Tivoli’s death, this table and other Frank/Comte items in his collection passed to his only descendant.

A clear, direct provenance to the ex-Tivoli family. This side table circa 1934, has a slight difference in the curvature of the top with the J M Frank model but is French made and the number stamped (in France) is not Comte and indicates the year 1934.

Sold for £4,788

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