Interesting Brushed Steel and Lucite Chandelier, French Work by Maison Charles

This very nice Pineapple chandelier is made of brushed metal and gilt metal. This is a very nice model. This is a work in the style of famous French designer Maison Baguès. Vers 1970

This interesting coffee table is made of brushed steel with a smoked glass top. This is a model by famous French designer Maison Charles. The ...

This neoclassical style chandelier is made of brass and red lucite. This is a French work. Circa 1940.

This chandelier is made of bronze and crystal. It has a very nice shap and is very elegant. This is a French work in the style of Maison Baguès...

This very nice table lamp showing horses is all made of lucite. This is a very interesting French work in the style of Maison Lalique. Circa 1970.

This very nice neoclassical style floor lamp is made of silver plated and brass. The lamp is composed of 4 lights on top of 4 brass sleeves on trumpets. It has a brass ring on top o...

Large French 1960s chandelier by Maison Charles, Paris. Referenced model: Modèle "aux joncs." From a Parisian apartment. Rewired with matching wax candle covers. Adjustable chain an...

Large French 1960s chandelier by Maison Charles, Paris. Referenced model: Modèle "aux joncs." From a Parisian apartment. Rewired with matching wax c...

A very elegant French chandelier in steel by Maison Charles circa 1970 8 lights

Set of three bronze light fixtures by Maison Charles, France, circa 1970s. Socket: e14 for standard screw bulbs. Measurements chandelier: Height 29.52 inches / Diameter 22.83 inches ...

‘O Hanging Fixture’ chandelier design in the 1970s by Renowned American designer Charles Hollis Jones. Constructed of polished nickel plated steel and clear Lucite. The Pendant tak...

An interesting early 20th century gilt bronze and crystal twenty-six-light "Grotesque" chandelier. A unique Gothic style, drop crystal, basket chandelier with different "Grotesque" faces and designs. Twenty-four-tiered perimeter lights (including six lanterns) and two-tiered interior lights. Artists began to give the tiny faces of the figures in grotesque decorations strange caricatured expressions, in a direct continuation of the medieval traditions of the drolleries in the border decorations or initials in illuminated manuscripts. From this the term began to be applied to larger caricatures, such as those of Leonardo da Vinci, and the modern sense began to develop. It is first recorded in English in 1646 from Sir Thomas Browne: "In nature there are no grotesques". By extension backwards in time, the term became also used for the medieval originals, and in modern terminology medieval drolleries, half-human thumbnail vignettes drawn in the margins, and carved figures on buildings (that are not also waterspouts, and so gargoyles) are also called "grotesques". A Boom in the production of works of art in the grotesque genre, characterized the period 1920–1933 of German art. In contemporary illustration art, the "grotesque" figures, in the ordinary conversational sense, commonly appear in the genre grotesque art...