PAUL DUPRÉ-LAFON (1900-1971) - FORMER COLLECTION MARIA DE BEYRIE Exceptional modernist table, which can form a flat desk, in walnut veneer. Each polyhedral block-foot is flanked, on its base, by triangular prisms plated with thick brass leaves. The central floor spacer has a slightly curved top. Each end has a slightly curved sliding support leg and two side rails on slides to receive, once pulled out, one or two extensions. The rectangular top has a thick belt. Presented with two original walnut veneer extensions (two missing). Circa 1927-29. Condition of use, two missing extensions. Without extension : Height : 72 cm - Length : 216 cm - Width : 110 cm With two extensions : Height : 72 cm - Length : 306 cm - Width : 110 cm Provenance: - Maria de Beyrie Collection. - Private collection. - Art nouveau - Art déco - Sale Poulain - Le Fur, Hôtel des ventes du Palais (des Congrès), Paris, 23 November 2000. Our work presented under the number 197 of the catalog. - Private collection, Paris. Work acquired during the previous one. Bibliography : - Pierre Kjellberg- Art déco - Les Maîtres du mobilier - Le Décor des paquebots - Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1986. Our work reproduced on page 66. - Thierry Couvrat Desvergnes - Paul Dupré-Lafon, decorator of millionaires - Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1990. Identical model, possibly in a different wood species or lacquered, reproduced on page 112.