Chippendale style bureau dame / office table, England, XVIII century. In mahogany. Measurements: 77 x 108 x 64 cm. Rococo table in the Chippendale style. With a straight plan, it has a smooth top, with a leather tablecloth, bordered by a moulding. The moulding is decorated with decorative notches. The waist is supported by two drawers with iron handles, and stands on four slender legs with claw-and-ball feet. Foliage-like vegetal carving covers the shoulders of the slender legs. Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) was one of the most important decorators of Rococo London, and indeed the originator of the English style of the period. The style known as Chippendale developed from about 1750, and although it began to decline in London around 1765, it was only then that it began to spread outside the capital, and indeed it was to enjoy great development in outlying centres for the rest of the century. The Chippendale style is composed of rococo features of French origin, Gothic and Chinese elements, mixed either separately, all together or only two of them.