Maxime Old Saturne Table Made of Cuba Mahogany Wood and Glass

Size: 59″ x 18.11″
Cuba mahogany wood and glass in the center

Saturne table has been made in 1961 by Maxime Old for the VIP lounge of Marseille-Marignane airport. At this time, the designer was more and more oriented towards larger-scale and global projects, more interested in the orchestration of space.

A “Certificate of Authenticity” is provided by the beneficiary Olivier Old.

Maxime Old is a French designer and interior architect born in 1910 and died in 1991. He represents the French scene of modern furniture having designed more than 3000 creations during his career. He started his creative path at Ruhlmann (A French Art Deco Furniture designer) after graduating from the University of Boulle in Paris.

Maxime Old’s career lies on the years where big changes happening in the interior architecture feild, from Art Deco to Bauhaus and from Bauhaus finally to Modernisme. He founded his own atelier very soon and begins to work in interior architecture upon request from clients. His Paquebot Collection was featured in the French Ocean-Liners, the City Hall of Rouen, the Hotel Marhaba in Casablanca and eventually the Airport in Marseille.

Today the Anne Jacquemin Sablon gallery edits the originals designs of Maxime Old, which at the time were not produced . The pieces produced are therefore the first editions based on the drawings from between the 1940s and 1980s.