France, 1947
Hungarian oak, ebony, gilt, contemporary fabric upholstery
The tables with inlaid ebony star motifs to tabletops, the chairs with gilded edging to seats
Originally designed to be paired with two identical tables to seat twelve for dinner
Branded signature to underside of tabletop: “Maxime Old”
H: 28 ½, W: 40 ½, D: 40 ½ in. (table); H: 38 ¼, W: 19, D: 21 in., seat height: 18 in. (chairs)

Galerie Plaisance, Paris
Property from a Private New York Collection

Badetz, Yves, “Maxime Old: Architecte-Décorateur”, Paris: Éditions Norma, 2000, pp. 130-32 (for a discussion of the Marly commission), pp. 146-47 (the present lot illustrated)

Fourcart, Bruno and Jean-Louis Gaillemin, “Les Decorateurs des années 40”, Paris: Éditions Norma, 1999, p. 164 (the present lot illustrated)

Bony, Anne, “Furniture & Interiors of the 1940s”, Paris: Flammarion, 2003, p. 22 (the present lot illustrated)

The present lot was designed for and originally installed in the dining room of the Loize family residence in Marly, outside Paris. The Marly interiors were a major project for Old, and an important articulation of his style. “The whole,” writes Yves Badetz, “illustrates perfectly an elegant residence in the postwar Parisian countryside.”

For the other dining tables and chairs from the Marly dining room, please see Lots 17, 18; for the dining room cabinet, please see Lot 19