Rare Vide-Poche/Ashtray by Boris Lacroix, Art Deco, 1930's, France

This glass tray can be used as a table centre piece. It was designed by Boris Lacroix in the 1930's and is a very fine example of the French Moderni...

Modernist lamp in chrome metal, the articulated head on the shaft is ending with a frosted glass cylinder. Bakelite switch on the wooden base. By Jean Boris Lacroix. European standa...

Original watercolor by Boris Lacroix (1902-1984) representing architecture elements, a boat and the seaside. Wall paper design from the Art Deco p...

Superb modernist table lamp by Jean-Boris Lacroix. This lamp was produced by Mitis a leading French design studio during the art deco period. It is made of Chromed metal and sandblas...

Superb Art Deco desk/secretaire by Primavera. It is made of a beech wood structure, all faces entirely covered with leather (parchment). All angles are reinforced with chromed metal....

Elegant and rare pair of modernist French bookends typical from the art deco period and 1930's. The base is made of black marble with nickel plated metal with a glass ball on top.

1970s Rare Porcelain Ashtray/Vide Poche by Piero Fornasetti for Winston accessories. Signed at the bottom. The item is in very good condition. Dimensions: W 7,28 in. x D 7,28 in. x...

1970s Rare Porcelain Ashtray/Vide Poche by Piero Fornasetti for Winston accessories. Signed at the bottom. The item is in very good condition. Dimensions: W 7,28 in. x D 7,28 in. x...

It is an Art Deco ashtray, in glass, with purple color transparencies. It was made in Art glassworks, in France in the 1940s. It is a decorative Vide poche.

Mid-Century Modern squared blue art glass ashtray or vide poche in style of Fontana Arte. The designer signature is not identifiable but it's dated and signed in Murano 1980. Measure...

A beautiful Art Nouveau Gouda pottery ashtray. Wonderfully colorful floral hand painted design, from Holland. This well made decorative object can also be used as a key holder/vide poche. Signed Dalia Konin Klyk, Coedewaalem, Gouda, Holland and numbered on bottom. Measures: 4 3/4 in. diameter x 2 3/8 in. high Other interesting information about this form of pottery: There isn’t a factory called Gouda Pottery; the pottery is called that because the main factories were in Gouda. Gouda (pronounced ‘how-da’) is the generic term we use for all the pottery factories in Holland – all Dutch pottery other than Delftware, that is. The area around Gouda had clay to make pots, which is why most of the factories settled there. A lot of the clay also came from England. The Dutch started producing clay pipes...

These handsome hand-painted Limoges porcelain ashtray is in a vibrant blue and yellow color with gilded accents and abirdr design. This piece is by Deshoulières Limoges...