This rare ceramic stool or side table, named Louis XIV for obvious reasons, is clearly a statement piece, especially for those that believe passionate expressions of creativity and baroque go hand-in-hand with interior design. This table made of polychrome ceramic is decorated with embossed red lambrequins with golden festoons. The piece is typical of the design duo’s commitment to avant-garde, romantic style, and is highly decorative. Elizabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti were a team of designers, based in Paris, who brought extraordinarily imaginative designs into the mainstream. Their work, like this stoolq, reflects their idea that furniture design should have no rules in terms of form, and therefore it feels blissfully free while being functional inside contemporary spaces. The piece is signed BG and is in an amazing condition. 

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 : 

Diameter : 45 cm
Height : 45 cm