Table Console

Gallery BAC xpanding console/desk design by Jean-Michel Frank, having a sinuously modeled Regency-inspired silhouette, two drawers, and the ability to double in size or shrink in half due to the ingeniously folding legs

Elegant tric-trac expanding desk in limed oak by Jean-Michel Frank

Expandable coffee table by Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941), having a “tric-trac” folding mechanism that doubles the table’s size, with cut-out style legs in the Regency taste and original leather insets on top; limed oak; Comte, 1937-early 1940s

(c.f.: Gallery BAC, Jean-Michel Frank in Argentina, New York, 2010, pgs. 26, 28, 31; Mo Amelia Teitelbaum, The Stylemakers: Minimalism and Classic Modernism 1915-1945, London, 2010, pgs. 133, 139, 145; Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, New York, 2008, pg. 168; Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank: Adolphe Channaux, Paris, 1980, pgs. 189, 190, 191)

Jean-Michel Frank,
1937-early 1940s

H 27.75 in. (70.5 cm)
L 51 in. (130 cm)
OPEN D 31.5 in. (80 cm)

  • Gallery BAC xpanding console/desk design by Jean-Michel Frank, having a sinuously modeled Regency-inspired silhouette, two drawers, and the ability to double in size or shrink in half due to the ingeniously folding legs
  • Gallery BAC xpanding console/desk design by Jean-Michel Frank, having a sinuously modeled Regency-inspired silhouette, two drawers, and the ability to double in size or shrink in half due to the ingeniously folding legs
  • Gallery BAC xpanding console/desk design by Jean-Michel Frank, having a sinuously modeled Regency-inspired silhouette, two drawers, and the ability to double in size or shrink in half due to the ingeniously folding legs
  • Gallery BAC xpanding console/desk design by Jean-Michel Frank, having a sinuously modeled Regency-inspired silhouette, two drawers, and the ability to double in size or shrink in half due to the ingeniously folding legs
  • Gallery BAC xpanding console/desk design by Jean-Michel Frank, having a sinuously modeled Regency-inspired silhouette, two drawers, and the ability to double in size or shrink in half due to the ingeniously folding legs
  • Gallery BAC xpanding console/desk design by Jean-Michel Frank, having a sinuously modeled Regency-inspired silhouette, two drawers, and the ability to double in size or shrink in half due to the ingeniously folding legs