gueridon

A gueridon typically consists of a trolley that is equipped to prepare, cook and serve food.

In a restaurant, a Crêpe Suzette is often prepared on a gueridon before the guests.

Sushi on the gueridon?

Grand nature morte au gueridon.

A two-tiered gueridon with a Sevres porcelain top is stamped by Martin Carlin.

An Empire gueridon table with gilt-bronze support and marble marquetry top sold for FFr1.4 million, over twice its high estimate.

"It is like a youthful wind," he said in French, as Jean-Philippe Mathieu, one of Gueridon's two owners, translated.

This type of service encompasses preparing food (primarily salads, main dishes such as beef stroganoff, or desserts) in direct view of the guests, using a "gueridon".

And here was Mr. Capron, with his wife and collaborator, Jacotte, at Gueridon, surrounded by pieces they had not seen in 30 or 40 years.

It features several pieces of bronze furniture made by the artist Diego Giacometti (1902-85), including a gueridon in the form of a tree and a coffee table with birds.

It also could have encompassed the stunning mahogany gueridon, or small-top table (about 1835), whose white marble slab is supported by three graceful, arching legs set on a base.

Ariane Dandois has a pair of William Kent benches from Rushbrook Hall and a memorable 19th-century mahogany gueridon with a pâte-de-verre, trompe l'oeil top from Italy.

Mr. Berlin has an upholstered armchair, a pair of pier tables, a sewing table and a gueridon, or pedestal table, made in Boston in his stand at the Winter Antiques Show.

Art & Design: Postwar to Present," opening today and on view through May 31 at Gueridon, a store on Lafayette Street near Bond Street that specializes in midcentury-modern French and Italian decor.

The table, based on a 1920's gueridon by the Art Deco designer Andre Arbus, is part of Mr. Grange's 29-piece furniture collection for John Widdicomb, a high-end manufacturer based in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Alfonso Munoz at Gueridon, a shop on Lafayette Street, said that when the Gucci store at Fifth Avenue and 54th Street displayed two late-50's Kagan pieces in its window last spring, he got even more inquiries about Kagans.

The gueridon, a tall stand for a candelabrum, offered Brustolon unhampered possibilities for variations of the idea of a caryatid or atlas: the familiar Baroque painted and ebonized blackamoor gueridons, endlessly reproduced since the eighteenth century, found their models in Brustolon's work.