Coffee table (100cm x 100cm x h30cm).

Unique piece created by the Belgian sculptor Jules DeWaele, known under the pseudonym Pia Manu.

A great collector of fossils and trilobites, Pia Manu shows on this table a fossil shape that he printed in the mass as if it were a fossil stone.

Made from concrete, iron and pyrite.
Signed Pia Manu on the back of the table, Circa 1960.

Special order for an owner in Flanders (Belgium). Four important pieces by Pia Manu from this same provenance are presented today by @igmarstuer and @pschantiques.

Representative of the “Flemish Brutalists” Pia Manu models or sculpts primitive forms with powerfully textured or “anti-poetic” materials (as he calls them himself) using concrete, earth and slate.