An ebonised wood coffee table attributed to René Drouet (DIM) - image-1

Lot 99 Dα

An ebonised wood coffee table attributed to René Drouet (DIM)

Auction 1137 - overview Brussels
17.09.2019, 14:00 - The Modern Style
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
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An ebonised wood coffee table attributed to René Drouet (DIM)

With brass mountings, the top with silver foil under glass. An elegant round table with a central baluster support on three scroll feet. The top decorated with concentric amorphic motifs in the style of the glass artist Max Ingrand. The glass top cracked through the centre. H 51, D 110.5 cm.
First third 20th C.

René Drouet (born 1899) studied at the Ecole Boulle and apprenticed under Maurice Dufrène at the Galeries Lafayette. In 1919 he was employed at DIM (Decoration Interieure Mobilier), a company founded in the same year by the architect René Joubert and the theatre set designer Georges Mouveau. When he opened his own studio, he specialised in the production of cast iron furniture throughout the 1940s. For table tops he often collaborated with the glass artist Max Ingrand.