By Max Campbell November 26, 2017 "Bust of Venus on a Round Tabletop," early eighteen-forties.
A rare, early Chalet table, also from around 1901, is simple, functional and sturdy, consisting of little more than a round tabletop supported by three flat, wide legs.
For furniture, she began with a round maple tabletop that had been carried west in a covered wagon by her forebears, who settled in the Pacific Northwest shortly before the Civil War, she said.
Duane Inc., at 176 Duane Street in TriBeCa, is selling 20th-century pieces, include a French 1940's limed oak dresser, a 1950's French sofa, a Vladimir Kagan table and a round white marble tabletop with a Greek key border inlaid in brass and a Robsjohn-Gibbings base.
Table legs flow into tabletops; walls round into ceilings.
It had an efficient ceramic combustion chamber, shaped like a miniature fireplace, with a round griddle perched above it like a tabletop.
Thessia Machado, a Brazilian-born video and sound artist, cradled a de-tuned ukulele, which was being strummed by a round, rotating canvas "bow" clamped to the tabletop, a setup she calls "Vibralele".
Five of these are fitted together to make a tabletop, and the edges are rounded off to minimize the potential for unpleasant splinters.
In 2005 an art historian at the University of Pennsylvania, Christine Poggi, inquired whether the sculpture, as MoMA had exhibited it, was missing a component, a round slice of cardboard that had originally formed a "tabletop" on which the guitar had rested.
Thursday to Saturday, John Derian will discount some decoupage pieces up to 60 percent, and some tabletop items and bed linens up to 50 percent (a John Derian five-inch round decoupage plate, shown, usually $48, will be $22 8 8 East Second Street (Bowery), (212) 677-3917.
"We often buy books by the yard to fill walls of bookcases," saidMary Foley, an interior designer in Bethel, "but we also create tableaus, like a still life, on tabletops and counters and shelves: a book, a silver bowl, a heavy round glass votive or a tiny vase of flowers.
