Two-Tier Faux-Bamboo Brass Side Table with Glass Shelves, in the Style of Jacques Adnet, c.1970

This elegant side table embodies the refined decorative sensibility of Jacques Adnet, the celebrated French interior designer who elevated the faux-bamboo aesthetic to the level of a personal signature. Adnet’s characteristic approach — combining the warmth and luminosity of gilt brass in faux-bamboo form with the lightness and transparency of glass — is faithfully captured here in a compact and beautifully made two-tier table equally suited as an end table, bedside surface or occasional piece.

The brass framework is constructed in the distinctive faux-bamboo idiom, each leg and rail formed from segmented brass tubing with ringed joints that evoke the growth patterns of the natural plant while achieving the precise, architectural quality of the craftsman’s hand. The corner and crossing-point joints are particularly well articulated, the ball-and-ring details adding a note of controlled decorative texture to the overall clean-lined composition.

Two clear glass shelves are set within the brass framework — one at the top surface and one at the lower tier — providing practical and visually light surfaces that allow the golden warmth of the metal to remain the dominant element of the composition. The square format, measuring 43 by 37 centimetres at a comfortable height of 38.5 centimetres, makes this an ideally proportioned companion to any seating arrangement.

In excellent vintage condition, the brass retaining a strong and attractive golden patina throughout. A charming and accomplished example of French faux-bamboo decorative furniture in the Adnet tradition.