Two-Tier Coffee Table in Brushed Steel & Brass with Smoked Glass, Guy Lefèvre for Maison Jansen, circa 1970

Guy Lefèvre remains one of the most celebrated designers to have worked under the Maison Jansen umbrella, his furniture distinguished by a characteristic material vocabulary that paired the cool, satin finish of brushed steel with the warm brilliance of brass to produce objects of enduring decorative force. This elongated two-tier coffee table is a quintessential example of his mature work, combining formal restraint with material luxury in the manner that made his pieces among the most sought-after in the French interior design world of the 1970s.

The rectangular form — low, horizontal, and deliberately proportioned — achieves its effect through the precision of its construction: the brushed steel frame, with its crisp right-angle joints, is accented by continuous brass trim detailing that outlines the edges of the upper and lower shelves. The two levels are glazed in smoked glass, whose subtle toning provides a chromatic complement to the warm and cool metals of the framework.

Produced for the illustrious Maison Jansen — the firm that counted among its clients the crowned heads of Europe and the most distinguished collectors of the twentieth century — this piece represents the summit of the house’s postwar production: a synthesis of the decorative tradition and the modernist sensibility that few workshops could equal.

A fine and representative example in good vintage condition. Both glass shelves present and intact.