Garden Stone Table

Important garden table composed of a cement base imitating wood and a 135 cm diameter slate top, made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The edge of the top was entirely worked with a stone chisel. A completely new and ephemeral art form developed between the end of the 19th century and the second quarter of the 20th century. It owes its originality to a desire to imitate nature in the context of rustic arrangements, often remarkable, sometimes exceptional. Long decried and still little known today, it owes its two main expressions to faux wood cement ornamentation and rockery arrangements, formerly used in public or private parks and gardens. As a fashion effect, the craze for this art form will be such that some of these elements will be associated with equally original creations, such as the faux bois cement ornamentation of certain facades, giving these examples a strange architecture. The art of faux bois will also often be associated with rockery arrangements, highlighted by remarkable creations of fake caves, rustic rocks, borders of paths, elements accompanying ponds...