The swiss artist meret oppenheim can be considered in a certain sense the surrealism muse making some of the movement s best known sculptures and posing as a model for a famous series of shots by man ray.
Meret oppenheim traccia table.
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Meret oppenheim traccia oval table bird s feet original simon label italy 1972.
He created this coffee table in 1939 for the parisian gallery by leo castelli where it had been presented under the name bird leg.
Its elliptical top is covered in pure gold leaf and two fantastical birds are impressed on its surface.
Traccia table with bird legs meret oppenheim simon ultramobile collection it was 1939.
This side table by surrealist artist méret oppenheim is part of the 1972 serial production called ultramobile of the original design she made in 1939.
The table becomes a delicate erotic object of irony humor and.
One of these pieces was the low table that the swiss artist meret oppenheim designed in 1929 for leo castelli s avant garde gallery dubbing it the bird leg table for fairly obvious reasons.
Traccia table ultramobile this is a second edition table of this classic table.
The underside is pai.
Méret oppenheim for simon gavina traccia coffee table in bronze gold leaf and wood italy 1970s.
By simon by design d autore meret oppenheim.
1972 bronze gold leaf wood 62 5 67 5 53 cm.
The traccia coffee table is an icon of italian design.
The legs of the table are slender bird s legs.
The slim line legs and the taloned feet in polished cast bronze pay homage to the claw foot furniture of the past.
Oppenheim s table like her tea cup touched on a nerve that was about the female.