French Bronze Gazelle Coffee Table in the Manner of Armand-Albert Rateau, 1960s
A rare French coffee table from the 1960s, created in the manner of Armand-Albert Rateau, where function gives way to something more poetic. Beneath the glass top, four stylized gazelles form the base, cast in bronze and joined in a continuous composition that feels at once rhythmic and architectural. Their elongated necks, looping legs, and horned profiles create a sense of movement held in suspension, as if caught mid-step.
A verdigris patina settles across the bronze in layered tones of green, softening the surface and giving greater depth to the casting. Light moves across the contours of the figures, tracing their silhouettes and emphasizing the tension between delicacy and weight.
The connection to Rateau is felt in the reverence for animal form, and in the way ornament becomes structure. Like his most compelling works, the natural world is not treated as decoration, but as the foundation of the design itself. The gazelles do not support the table in a conventional sense—they are the table.
There is also something quietly mythic in the composition. Read in profile, the figures feel almost hieroglyphic, somewhere between ancient symbol and modern sculpture. From different angles, the forms shift, becoming more abstract or more animate.
As a coffee table, it carries presence well beyond utility. As an object, it sits closer to sculpture—an uncommon example of French design where fantasy, material, and function resolve into a single gesture.
DIMENSIONS: 30"W x 30"D x 18.25"H
ORIGIN: France
PERIOD: 1960s
MATERIALS: Bronze,Glass
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