ART NOUVEAU EXTENDING DINING TABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO EUGÈNE GAILLARD (1862-1933), CIRCA 1900

Large walnut extending dining table with carved floral decoration H. 73.5 cm, W. 162 cm, D. 110 cm Eugène Gaillard, a French architect and designer, renounced to a career in law to become a furniture designer. Samuel Siegfried employed him alongside Georges de Feure and Edouard Colonna to create interiors for his pavilion at the Exposition Universelle de Paris in 1900, where a table similar to ours was exhibited. Gaillard saw nature as a source of inspiration, although he did not faithfully reproduce plant and animal forms in his designs, but transformed them into fantastic motifs.