Christian Krekels Pair of Signed Coffee Tables with Eched Table Top

Christian Krekels, pair of coffee tables, brass, enamled steel, Belgium, 1970s

Admirable coffee tables with square tabletop in ornamented brass by belgium desiger Christian Krekels. These luxurious and refined coffee tables feature an etched brass tabletop and robust, dramatic black legs. The etched top shows a pattern of lines with one accent details on which also his signature is added. Krekels treated the surface in different ways to assure a unique expression.

Christian Krekels (1942-) is an expressive Belgian sculptor. Following his studies at the Institut des Arts Saint-Luc in Tournai, Krekels firstly focused his work on diamonds. Later in his career he shifted his oeuvre to sculptures. He worked on figurative and abstract sculptures as well as artistic coffee tables with characteristic tabletops. Krekels mainly works with different metals and like in this case, treated the brass tabletop in an unparalleled manner.

In the 1970s a trend of decorative arts arose in Brussels. Key-designers were Aldo Chale, Georges Mathias, Willy Daro and Lova Creation and Jean Claude Dresse and Christian Krekels worked in this style too. Their style was characterized by the use of gemstones as decorative element and the use of golden brass as primary color. The classical technique of etching was highly applied on their designs for coffee and cocktail tables.

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