Wrought Iron Coffee Table with Patinated and Gilded Tree-Branch Base in the Manner of Willy Daro. Circa 1970

This wrought iron coffee table with patinated and gilded tree-branch base fits within the sculptural and naturalistic vocabulary that characterises decorative furniture of the 1970s, popularised in particular by Willy Daro. The ironwork, carefully modelled to imitate tree branches, combines a dark patina with gilded touches in an effect that is both vegetal and precious.

Willy Daro (1928–2010), a major Belgian mid-century creator, developed from the 1960s onwards a singular vocabulary where furniture becomes sculpture. His tables, lamps and desks borrow their forms from nature — branches, trunks, roots — treated with a metallic virtuosity that transforms them into art objects. This coffee table fits fully within this naturalistic and sculptural tradition.

With generous dimensions (Width: 112 cm | Depth: 65 cm | Height: 39 cm), it naturally takes its place at the centre of a living room, a hotel lobby or a reception space, where its organic silhouette draws the eye and structures the space through its singularity.

A piece in the manner of Willy Daro whose naturalistic poetry continues to enchant eclectic, contemporary and character-driven interiors.