GUY DE ROUGEMONT | “NUAGE” ILLUMINATED COFFEE TABLE

Rosamund Bernier, “Palm Beach Fable: The Private Wrightsman rooms,” House and Garden Magazine, May 1984, p. 120 (for a related model photographed in Henri Samuel’s study)

This rare coffee table designed in 1970 represents an iteration of the more recognizable "Nuage" coffee table design created by the artist that same year. With only three or four models believed to have been produced by the artist, this variant is particularly rare and presents with a unique burlwood veneered top and one open side to the base. The table was specially commissioned by Henri Samuel for his office in his Paris home, and was eventually placed alongside Design masterpieces by Sylvain Dubuisson, Diego Giacometti, and Philippe Hiquily.