Unique Sculptural Coffee Table By Pia Manu

Coffee table, metal base, slate top, tin sculpture. Unique piece by the Belgian sculptor Jules Dewaele, better known as Pia Manu. As a great collector of fossils and trilobites, Pia Manu takes a fossil tin form that he superimposes on the table top in combination with slate mosaics. The base of the table is made of oxidated metal, Pia Manu treatened metals with an oxidation process to give the metal a unique texture and patina. Signed Pia Manu. Acquired directly from the artist in 1983 by the previous owner. Representative of the Flemish Brutalists. He models or sculpts primitive forms with materials of powerful texture or anti-poetic (as he calls them) using concrete, fossils, metals, glass, earth and slate.