Modernist Chrome Framed Fold-Out Table “Jean” by Eileen Gray for Alivar

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Fold-out table Jean was named after Eileen Gray‘s long time lover Jean Badovici. It has a frame made of chrome and a table top made of black melamine. Folded in the table is 64 cm long (25.2 inch), folded out the length reaches 128.5 cm (50.6).
Eileen Gray designed the Jean table in 1929 for her summer house in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France where every guest room had one. “Every room has at its disposal one of these tables”, she wrote, “that at the same time can serve as a desk. For entertaining one moves all the pieces together, unfolds them and what follows is a small dining table, light yet absolutely stable.”