Snelling's Free Form Coffee Table
Douglas Snelling (1916-1985), coffee table, c.1955 manufactured by functional Products Pty Ltd, St Peters, Sydney, Australia, free form shape, Queensland maple (A/F). Height 17.72 in. Literature: Grant, Kirsty, mid-century modern, Australian furniture design, National Gallery of Victoria, 2014 Exhibited Identical design on display at the exhibition, mid-century modern, Australian furniture design, National Gallery of Victoria, 30 May - 19 October, 2014
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- A/f, as Inspected - The letters "A/F" or "as inspected" as part of a description is the cataloguer's shorthand for "all faults" or "as found", meaning the item has some type of damage or deficiency, it is of uncertain date or provenance, and/or that the seller takes no responsibility for the completeness of the item or the accuracy of the description.
- Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.
Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
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