Mid Century Modern Teak Afromosia Wood Astro Rocket Coffee Table by G Plan 1965 Recently Added Claude Michel was a French

Claude Michel was a French sculptor in the Rococo style

to the center is is a urn shaped flaming finial above a corresponding rosette

Batavian (now Jakarta) Dutch East Indies silver and tortoise shell Sirih casket

The clock is complemented with a pair of gilt bronze & cobalt blue Sevres porcelain four branch vasiform candelabras

a theme which became particularly pronounced in an abstract expressionist style after the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War

Mid Century Modern Teak Afromosia Wood Astro Rocket Coffee Table by G Plan 1965 Recently Added Claude Michel was a FrenchMid Century Modern Afromosia Teak 'Rocket' coffee table designed by V. B. Wilkins in 1965 as part of the "Astro" range for G Plan. This iconic design was part of the highly innovative "Astro" furniture range, with elements of the space age that was very much part of design in the mid 1960s. The table is made of solid Afromosia wood, a type of African teak with rich distinct grain, the table having a circular inset glass top and is raised on four legs