I love this table. It’s pure gusto — Hollywood glamour and a whisper of Italian modernism dropped into the late 1950s British sitting room.
Today it looks like it walked off a Mad Men set.
A well-resolved mid-century piece from G Plan’s most considered period. The design is built on the relationship between surface and structure — a richly figured teak top, slightly raised and framed, set against a disciplined black architectural base.
The top appears to hover. The structure is reduced to line. Small brass details quietly resolve each junction.
It sits between Scandinavian influence and British design logic — not imitative, but interpreted.
A note on attribution: this table shares its architectural vocabulary with G Plan’s later, better-known Librenza range — the ebonised base, brass details, floating teak top. But where Librenza refined that language for mass production, this earlier table carries the design in a less compromised form. The proportions are slightly different. The detailing more considered. What Librenza gained in commercial reach, it gave up in resolution. This is the table before those trade-offs were made.
Stamped to the underside with the original G Plan mark.
Condition
Conserved in the studio rather than stripped. The top has been cleaned and revived to bring back depth to the grain — no tinted finishes, the timber presented exactly as it has aged. Light surface wear consistent with age remains, part of its domestic history. The frame is structurally sound; minor age-related marks to the black finish have been carefully toned using reversible methods, leaving the original finish intact.
A final light oil will be applied before dispatch.
H: 41cm W: 99cm D: 48cm
