produced by Compagnie des Arts Français, Paris
elm, brass, leather
29³⁄₄ x 71 x 31³⁄₈ in. (75.5 x 180.4 x 79.6 cm)

Galerie Matthieu Richard, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2023

Art et Industrie, Paris, no. 18, 1950, p. 41 (for a photograph of the model at the Salon des Arts de la Table, Paris, 1950)
A.-R. Hardy and G. Millet, Jacques Adnet, Paris, 2009, p. 131 (for the above mentioned photograph)

This model was exhibited at the Salon des Arts de la Table, Paris, 1950.

Christie's would like to thank Alain-René Hardy for his assistance with the authentication and cataloguing of this lot.

Last image: Salon des Arts de la Table, Intérieur De Moulin, Furniture by Jacques Adnet. Courtesy Bibliothèque Nationale de France. © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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The present dining table, with its rustic elegance and seemingly simple construction was first exhibited at the Salon des Arts de la Table organized in 1950 by Max Fourny, editor of the magazine Art et Industrie and father-in-law of Jacques Adnet. It is a rare piece of furniture with a discreet refinement, of which only a very small number were likely produced. Rustic in appearance and supremely complex in its construction and effects of great elegance, delicately reinforced by the fawn leather sheathing the tubular crossbar closed at its ends by the discreet shine of brass caps.