Art Deco centre table

Constructed using silky oak for the sides and plinth. The table top, base and fascia are made from highly figured pollard oak, with curving fluted sides and a stepped design to the top and plinth.

Attributed to Serge Chermayeff

Waring & Gillow - label to underside

Circa 1930s

Towards the end of the 1920s Waring & Gillow opened a new experimental modern art department. Serge Chermayeff was enlisted as Director partnering with the French based designer Paul Follot, head of Waring & Gillow, Paris. Together they attempted to bring a progressive Art Deco edge to the company. In 1928 they opened a large exhibition ‘Modern Art In Decoration and Furnishing’ to London. It consisted of 68 decorated and furnished rooms situated one the 4th and 5th floors of the Oxford Street building (currently Selfridges). The exhibition ran from November 1928 to January 1929 (Information courtesy of Wikipedia).