Art Nouveau Coffee Table
Jun 19, 2015
This coffee table was designed and made for a customer with a large cigar room. The elliptical top size is 60″ wide X 80″ long with a total height of 22″ The shape of the base is an art Nouveau style. This style was at its peak in France around 1910. Art Nouveau was inspired by natural forms such as flowers, trees, ect. My inspiration came from a Designer/furniture maker named Eugene Vallin 1856-1922.
The top has a marquetry picture of a lake and trees with a water reflection. There are 450 different pieces of veneer to create the top marquetry. The elliptical shape of the top really help add to the Art Nouveau overall style of the coffee table.
This was a really fun piece of furniture to make, the time frame was four months which wasn’t a long enough time frame. I had to push hard, 1200 hours in a 4 month time period. I still love every moment of it. I think us woodworkers are a little crazy. lol Thank you for looking!!!
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1200 hours in such a time-span, holy cow! You have a point that our kind (woodworkers) is almost fanatical, but it pays off, when you look at a beautiful piece like this! Great job, Dennis, excellent design :)
Hi EzraStacks,
Thank you very much for the kind complements, It is funny how some of us woodworkers get into it, kind of like an obsessive compulsive disorder. LOL
Hello and WOW does not do it justice. I do like a challenge and was wondering if you have a few more photos of the legs / lower assembly. I am working and learning Sketch Up and this would be an assume project to try and re-create with it. If not, it is cool as leaving something to imagination is a must. It is a beautiful work and hope for the same results...Peace.....
Hi goofyfoot,
Thank you for the kind complements, I am working on a furniture book and should be out in a couple of years. I don't know if you can wait that long, and good luck to you.
The art on this unit is peautiful. Amd the craftsmanship on the legs make them look like beautiful little pods. I saw something similar in a self storage unit once but I'm sure it can't be the same because it's too unique to have been copied!
Amazing design! nice finishing touch! I like it
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