Beautiful brutalist side table table by Elizabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti, model Isis, designed in 1987 by the iconic duo, and produced by the famous gallery En attendant les Barbares. Made in wrought iron hand beaten and waxed, this table is clearly a baroque and brutalist statement piece, especially for those that believe passionate expressions of creativity go hand-in-hand with interior design. Elizabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti were a team of designers, based in Paris, who brought extraordinarily imaginative designs into the mainstream. Their work, like this gueridon, reflects their idea that furniture design should have no rules in terms of form and materials. The piece is emblematic of the design duo’s commitment to avant-garde, romantic style, and is highly decorative. The table is signed and stamped, and is in mint condition.  

Literature : A. Bony & A. Kentish, 'En attendant les Barbares, Quatre décennies de design', Ed. du Regard, Paris, 2022, modèle similaire page 114 ; Stephen Calloway, François Baudot and Gérard-George Lemaire, Elizabeth Garouste et Mattia Bonetti, Marseille, 1990, page 78.

Garouste & Bonetti duo were celebrated for inventing a new Baroque and barbarian romanticism. They became recognised as international players in the art and design market from the early 1980s to the late 1990s.  Their furniture is inventive, unconventional, subtle, constituted by heteroclite and unusual materials, in reference to the Middle Ages and Africa, revisiting the Venetian baroque and the neo-classicism.  As they once stated about their work : ‘Our hope is to give people the feeling of freedom in the choice of forms.  Good taste really bothers us a lot.  What we care about is implanting doubt.  We don’t have any rules.’

Dimensions :  

Width : 49 cm
Depth : 35 cm
Height : 51 cm