The Brussels master Ado Shal (Ado Chale, b. March 18, 1928) has been making decorative objects for half a century, which attract eyes like super-power magnets.

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He became one of the most recognizable designers of our days. Tables Ado Shalya with firm smooth tabletops, lined with colorful jade, agate, lapis lazuli, stand in the luxurious Parisian living rooms, Florida villas and luxury London residences. He lays out turquoise, red jasper, agate, gold, hematite, black onyx on acrylic resin and polishes the surface with diamonds.

Adolf Pelzner was born in 1928 in the poor Brussels district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. His father was a cabinet maker, but young Ado became interested in metal and learned to work in small urban forges. Then, traveling around Germany in the late 1950s, he saw the diversity and beauty of stones - mineralogy so fascinated him that he completely changed his style, technique, and specialization.

All subsequent life, he searched, bought and collected stones himself, wandering the beaches of Pas-de-Calais or across the plains of Arizona. For the construction of his objects he used bronze, steel, aluminum and even bone. Once Ado Shawl was fascinated by the large frieze of Gustav Klimt in Pale Stokle (few lucky ones managed to visit the interiors of the famous monument created by Joseph Hoffmann in 1905-1911). And he wanted to make decorative things that people would like to look at and look at. The designer's wife, Jugette Schall, was a professional gemologist, she not only helped her husband navigate the variety of stones, but with a business acumen, she had been doing business all his life. In 1961, she opened the Galerie Chale gallery on the rue Livourne in Brussels.

In 1962, Pelzner took the pseudonym Ado Shal. My wife began selling inlaid tables and decorative items of her husband, and also began to offer clients works by the Belgian sculptor Olivier Strebell, jeweler Emil Supli, as well as works by German masters Hadfried Rinke, Heinrich Wildt. King Baduen and his wife Fabiola often visited the gallery, which eventually moved to the fashionable Avenue Louise, and once the couple even bought Ado Shalya’s table as a gift to French President Georges Pompidou. Shalya also had decorative objects from Princess Diana and German Prime Minister Helmut Kohl.

Interior designed by Olivier Dweck. Living room. Table, diz. Ado Shawl. Bench, diz. J. Nakashima. Two large-format abstract works of G. Hildebrandt support the texture of concrete.

Interior designers became interested in the tables in the mid-1960s. In 1967, architect Henri Montois for the interiors of the Hilton Hotel in Brussels ordered Shal 25 low tables encrusted with radiant marcasite.

Another milestone in the biography of the master was an acquaintance with the famous Parisian gallery owner Yves Gastou. Since 2000, Gallerie Yves Gastou has presented his works and carries on all key fairs from Basel to New York. Prices for Shalya’s masterpieces at Gastu start at 40 thousand euros.

In 2011, the wife Yuggette Schall passed away. Today, in his workshop in Ryu Lens, everyone is led by the daughter of master Ilona Shal, on the first floor there is an exhibition hall where about 15 works of the master stand at the same time. Ado Shal himself, who celebrates his ninety-year anniversary in 2018, rarely goes down to the guests, but continues to choose stones and draw sketches.