Oppenheim s table like her tea cup touched on a nerve that was about the female.
Meret oppenheim traccia table.
Its elliptical top is covered in pure gold leaf and two fantastical birds are impressed on its surface.
The underside is pai.
The swiss artist meret oppenheim can be considered in a certain sense the surrealism muse making some of the movement s best known sculptures and posing as a model for a famous series of shots by man ray.
The slim line legs and the taloned feet in polished cast bronze pay homage to the claw foot furniture of the past.
Choosing the subject of the table where women serve tea or dinner the table suggests an object of offering.
Thank you for your patience.
One of these pieces was the low table that the swiss artist meret oppenheim designed in 1929 for leo castelli s avant garde gallery dubbing it the bird leg table for fairly obvious reasons.
Méret oppenheim for simon gavina traccia coffee table in bronze gold leaf and wood italy 1970s.
From morentz meret oppenheim traccia coffe table ca.
He created this coffee table in 1939 for the parisian gallery by leo castelli where it had been presented under the name bird leg.
By simon by design d autore meret oppenheim.
Traccia table with bird legs meret oppenheim simon ultramobile collection it was 1939.
The traccia coffee table is an icon of italian design.
1972 bronze gold leaf wood 62 5 67 5 53 cm.
Due to extraordinarily high volume of requests our responses may be delayed.
The table becomes a delicate erotic object of irony humor and.
Meret oppenheim traccia oval table bird s feet original simon label italy 1972.