Fine Coffee Table Lacquered in Black, Eggshell and Blue. Circa 1960

This fine lacquered coffee table combines three chromatic shades of rare elegance: a deep black that serves as the frame, eggshell inlays that bring texture and light, and accents of blue that energise the composition. The eggshell lacquer technique, inherited from Asian decorative arts and popularised in France by Jean Dunand and later Jean-Michel Frank, here signs a piece of quality.

Eggshell lacquer consists of meticulously inlaying eggshell fragments into a traditional lacquer, creating an effect of luminous cracks that contrasts with the depth of the black lacquer. This demanding, long and costly technique makes each piece an almost unique object whose surface lives according to the angle of light. The addition of blue, rarer, testifies to an assertive decorative research characteristic of the early 1960s.

With generous dimensions (Width: 134 cm | Depth: 69 cm | Height: 41.5 cm), this coffee table naturally takes its place at the centre of a living room, a hotel lobby or a reception space, where it visually structures the composition through its graphic palette.

A piece of 1960s decorative arts whose mastery of lacquer and tricolour palette continues to enchant refined classical, eclectic and contemporary interiors.