1980s Serge Roche Style Palm Beach Banana Leaf Dining Table, Newly Painted

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At Turtle & Crane, we turn the past into stunning décor for today, and this banana leaf pedestal table is … Read more At Turtle & Crane, we turn the past into stunning décor for today, and this banana leaf pedestal table is a good example. Found at a Florida estate sale, the sculptural base was finished in our Atelier as a one-of-a-kind dining table.

The base rises from a stepped plinth in a cluster of flaring palm and banana leaf fronds, each with deep ribbing and a ruffled edge. We began with a pearl-essence ground, then laid in hand-applied gold leaf, deepened the recesses with shadow, and added a translucent pearl texture coat. A final pass of gilding picks out the high relief and the faux pearl accents at the center. Beneath the gold, the pearl reads soft and iridescent and shifts with the light.

The base is newly painted and gilded throughout and paired with a thick oval glass top with a polished edge, so the fronds stay visible from above and from the side. It works as a dining table and equally well as a foyer table. The form recalls the work of Serge Roche, Tony Duquette, and Mario Buatta, and it sits comfortably in Hollywood Regency, Palm Beach Regency, tropical chic, maximalist, and neoclassical rooms.

The oval glass top measures 63 inches wide, 36 inches deep, and one half inch thick. The base measures 39 inches wide, 24 inches deep, and 30 inches high, with about 29 inches of knee clearance. Overall height with the glass is about 30.5 inches.

The final photographs in this listing are AI-generated visualizations of the table in a styled room. The studio photographs show the table as it is.

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