Table Coffee
Flip-top coffee table 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; figured mahogany; Comte, 1937-early 1940s; Comte S.A. paper tag with “F:121816,” “No. 2513149-2,” numbering impressed “1467”
(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,
Comte, 1937-early 1940s
H 18 in. (46 cm)
L 43 in. (109 cm)
W OPEN 31.5 (80 cm)
W CLOSED 15.25 in. (39 cm)