Italian Decorative Art

18th Century Italian hand painted on alabaster and framed landscape painting.

18th century Italian hand painted on Alabaster and framed landscape painting.

Beautiful midcentury painting. A very decorative color collage of flowers. The painting is signed PL and named Monachez. The painting has a red original frame. The painting has a wa...

Decorative wall panel handmade by the artist manufactured using the scagliola technique. Tha Coloured Abstract subject dictated by the imagination ( in relief) emerges from the backg...

Important ink drawing representing animated landscape with ruins and aqueduct in the background Venetian school Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certific...

From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Moro Screen. Nature has always been a source of inspiration for our hand-decorated furnishings. We...

Italian silk-screen print on paper of two women and a musician, 1900-1980s Silk-screen print depicting two women and a musician. In beige paper passepartout and white varnished wood...

An Italian pair of stretched canvas paintings from the 19th century. These antique wall decorations from Italy each have painted canvas stretched over an arch-shaped wood frame, nearly 4 feet in width. The paintings are Neoclassical in design featuring an urn with flame at center, symmetrically framed within an abundant display of scrolling acanthus leaves. A gold tone ribbon fabric with nail-heads outlines the outer edges of each framed piece. These 19th century Italian Neoclassic arched wall ornaments would add the grandeur of height hanging above a pair of window or door casings...

19th century Moonlit landscape Measures: Oil on canvas, 67 x 51.5 cm With frame 75 x 59 cm Signed lower left “Luigi Giavazzi” The landscape illuminated by the nocturnal light of the moon that illuminates the sky depicts a collision between natural elements: if on the one hand we find the luxuriant hilly landscape with the rocks covered by shrubs and the grotesque tower with the lion of San Marco...

8 fogli mosaico Bisazza originale, anni 90 montati su rete. dim 30 x 30 cm adatti uso rivestimento vasi, cornici, rivestimento. adatti anche per uso in esterno. fogli pronti da inco...

An imposing Italian still life oil painting four folds room divider.

Fratelli Toso impressive "laguna" waterfall glass wall sculpture design Giusto Toso years ’60 with 171 glass, every glass is long 17 inches 43 cm and weight 2,8 lbs each 1,3 kg in th...

“Selvatica” is a wall lamp with a LED backlight, conceived as an external window to connect you to nature even in those places, where it is not actually present. Its front panel is made of painted paper with subsequent material interventions on the back to create plays of light and shadow. The ovoid shape gives the idea of the oriental fan...

The, suitably, psychedelic artwork on the Italian 4 Foglio film poster for the Beatles' classic Yellow Submarine is, well, groovy baby. Sure to brighten up an...

An outstanding Italian 19th century white Carrara marble relief plaque. The circular solid white Carrara marble plaque depicts the profile of a wo...

The natural brass flower-shaped wall light has a double sunburst of brass laser-cut petals and hand made decorations. Electrification can be customized according to the buyer's coun...

ANTONIO FRANCIONE (1907 -1987 - Italy) - 'Pompeii' - Fine quality frieze style painting - watercolor and gouache over graphite on paper - extraordinary quality and composition - sign...

17th century Portrait of Saint Paul Measures: Oil on oval canvas, 67 x 50 cm - with frame 81 x 64 cm The portrait examined here depicts the Apostl...

Impressive 19th century Italian hand fan, remarkably preserved with silvered metal sticks and guards depicting ancient gods, palm trees and classical emblemes. The paper leaves are h...

A beautiful vintage Italian mirror featuring a back painted modernized shield shape frame in a light amber hue with a rosy tint. This piece has a circular mir...

6 fogli mosaico Bisazza originale, anni 90 montati su rete. dim 30 x 30 cm adatti uso rivestimento vasi, cornici, rivestimento. adatti anche per uso in esterno...

Great explosive graphics feature on this original Italian 70s film poster for firm favourite Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Amazing design and bold colours on a truly stunning s...

White Bunny Drawing by Oleg Cassini for Playboy October 1979, Signed. Illustration of a woman wearing a white body suit, choker, and hat. Signed by Oleg Cassini. Notice the body suit is in the shape of the head of a bunny with clever use of the 'whiskers'. Approximate Measurements: Length: 11" Width: 14" Property from the Collection of Steven Rosengard, Chicago, Illinois This original drawing was commissioned by Playboy and included in the October 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine (pages 225-227) in a feature that included works from designers such as Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini, Edith Head, Fernando Sanchez, and Monika Tilley, among others, who create their versions of the Playboy bunny costume. Candace Collins can be seen modeling some of the designs in the feature. Oleg Cassini is an icon of twentieth-century fashion. Though born to Russian aristocracy and raised in Italy, he built a fashion empire that was unmistakably American. Cassini is perhaps best known for the hundreds of designs he created for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (see images 4-8), but his achievements as a collector, connoisseur, and quintessential twentieth-century man go far beyond Camelot. In 1913, Oleg Cassini was born in Paris to the Russian diplomat Count Alexander Loiewski and Countess Marguerite Cassini, a Russian aristocrat of Italian ancestry who also had an interesting link to America. The daughter of Count Arthur Cassini, Russian Ambassador to the United States during the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations, Marguerite dazzled turn-of-the-century Washington as her father’s official hostess and left her mark on the capital city. Stationed in Denmark when the Russian Revolution toppled the czar, Ambassador Cassini and family were exiled to Switzerland before settling in Florence, Italy, where young Oleg was raised. A true Renaissance man, he spoke Russian, French, and Danish before adding Italian and English; he studied medieval and modern European military history and costume and learned to draw; he learned horseback riding, fencing, and the art of chivalry; and, most importantly, he came to understand the struggles of the Russian titled class and other European aristocrats in the wake of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Countess Cassini started a successful fashion business in Florence, and soon the talented young Oleg was sent to Paris to sketch the latest collections for recreation in Italy. In Rome in his early 20s, Cassini created fashions for high society women and designed for a few films, which planted the seed for his move to Hollywood. The drive to reinvent himself brought Cassini to America in the 1930s; in his autobiography he describes arriving nearly penniless in mid-Depression New York City where his title as an exiled Russian Count meant even less than in war-devastated Europe. Down and out, Cassini struggled for employment, having sketching skills but no knowledge of the wholesale trade required for survival in Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue fashion district. However, he excelled at making connections, and Cassini slowly entered New York society. He was soon joined by younger brother Igor (who had studied in America and travelled with the young Emilio Pucci) and his parents, the once-dazzling Countess and his father, the displaced diplomat still loyal to Russia. The family settled in Washington, D.C., and Igor worked his way up the Hearst newspaper chain to become the famous society columnist Cholly Knickerbocker. In New York, Oleg Cassini married the troubled socialite Merry Fahrney (who would go on to marry eight times), but the marriage ended in scandal for Oleg, and he decided to follow his original intention and head for Hollywood. Despite initial difficulties, Cassini gained access to Hollywood’s elite (partially through his skills on the tennis court), and was soon hired as a designer at Paramount Pictures alongside the redoubtable Edith Head. In her 1941 film debut I Wanted Wings, Veronica Lake wore a memorable Cassini design. That same year, Cassini met and married the newest young Hollywood star on the scene, the beautiful 20th Century Fox–talent Gene Tierney. With the outbreak of World War II, Cassini enlisted in the Coast Guard but was transferred to the U.S. Army Cavalry which allowed officers of foreign birth. He attended basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the horsemanship he learned as a boy served him greatly. He attended Officer Candidate School and reached the rank of First Lieutenant (he also became an American citizen at this time, losing his title of Count). Cassini spent several years posted at Fort Riley, where Tierney joined him before he landed a convenient military post in Hollywood. As Tierney’s career thrived (she played the title role in Otto Preminger’s Laura in 1944), she was able to assert her influence over 20th Century Fox’s head Daryl Zanuck, who hired Cassini as designer for Tierney on her 1946 film The Razor’s Edge, which proved to be a brilliant showcase for his talents. The pair separated the same year and, again seeking reinvention, Cassini re-established himself in New York City as a fashion designer. By 1950, the Oleg Cassini label was born. Combining his knowledge of Old World and modern Europe, Hollywood, the tennis courts of Palm Beach and Newport, and of course, New York City, Oleg Cassini invented a new brand of fashion that was distinctly American and of its moment. For his first collection, Cassini took to the stage, narrating the looks and imbuing the scene with his personality, unusual in an industry where the designers typically remained backstage and the models were called by number over a PA. The first collection was a smash — the president of Lord & Taylor devoted all of their storefront windows to his designs — and by 1955 sales had reached $5,000,000. Oleg Cassini’s career had turned a very positive corner. Cassini spent the early 1950s traversing the country, personally selling his collections to department stores in the interior, something his predecessors had never done, and moving between the Hollywood and New York scenes. Cassini’s brother Igor coined the term “the Jet Set” for this generation that constantly flew from New York to Los Angeles (then a ten-hour flight), Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, and the Riviera. In 1954, Cassini set out to woo Grace Kelly and sent her roses every day. The two were briefly engaged before her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco. In December 1960, Cassini’s career-defining opportunity came when he was chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her fashions for the White House. Cassini had long known Joe Kennedy and his war-hero son John, and had first met Jacqueline Bouvier before her marriage in the early 1950s. Invited by President-Elect Kennedy to meet Jacqueline at Georgetown Hospital (she had just given birth to son John Jr.) to present to her drawings of potential dresses and First Lady looks, Cassini worked furiously to prepare a new line for the First Lady. Mrs. Kennedy had always had her clothes made by the top French couturiers of the day, but for the White House she wanted an American designer. Cassini wrote in his autobiography that he told the First Lady: “‘You have an opportunity here,’ I said, ‘for an American Versailles.’ She understood completely what I was trying to communicate; she began to talk excitedly about the need to create an entirely new atmosphere at the White House. She wanted it to become the social and intellectual capital of the nation” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 327). Mrs. Kennedy loved Cassini’s design for a gown to wear to the Inaugural Gala (she had already ordered a dress from Bergdorf’s for the Inaugural Ball), and Cassini was selected as the First Lady’s designer and was soon dubbed the “Secretary of Style.” From 1960 to 1963, Oleg Cassini would design over 300 items for Mrs. Kennedy, creating the “Jackie Look” that contributed not only to a fashion revolution but also the dawn of a new age. Cassini wrote that “Jackie played a very active role in the selection of her clothes. She loved brilliant colors — pistachio, hot pink, yellow, and white among others. Her sense of style was very precise; she would make editorial comments on the sketches I sent her. She always knew exactly what she wanted; her taste was excellent” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 334). After the Camelot years, Cassini’s business flourished and grew into a major industry; his name appeared on everything from couture to tennis-, sport-, and swimwear, car interiors, housewares, and perfume. He collected beautiful and rare artwork, arms and armor, and antique furniture, and lived the lifestyle projected by his image. From this period onward, Cassini also came to live in important homes. Of his Gothic Gramercy Park townhouse on Manhattan’s 19th Street he would write imaginatively, “I walked into the foyer and immediately fell in love. It was a place unlike any other in New York, a sixteenth-century Dutch house transported brick by brick from Europe by the Wells Fargo family in the early twentieth century. There was a vaulted, twenty-foot ceiling in the living room, leaded windows, elegantly carved wood paneling...

The eleventh Ginkgo 03 applique is in cast brass natural finish, this brass working technique allows you to have shapes rich in details such as the natural veins of the leaves and their movement; this five leaves applique is a perfect decorative wall highlight alongside jungle or trompe l'oeil wallpapers or to be integrated in a nature inspired interior project. Bronzetto suggests the natural brass finish for the Ginkgo Leaves...

From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our decorative Parrot which is part of our category dedicated to accessories and home embellishments. In case you need a touch of adventure even when not travelling, let us bring the outdoor in with our fun handmade and hand-painted parrots. A little exotic accent to add to your home, our hand-painted parrots may be fully customized in terms of colors and design. Born as a bed post finial...

Our ceramic plate "Mediterranean Nuances" is handmade and hand-painted in Italy: realized in majolica painted in polychrome, it is characterized by elegant decorative motifs of the Deruta tradition colored with different variations of blue and brown tones following the original Renaissance painting technique. The particular shape of this dish is traditionally called "a priest's hat". This majolica can be exposed as an centerpiece or it can be used as a fancy wall dish...

Rare brass cross designed by Arnaldo Pomodoro and his brother Giò Pomodoro in the 1950s, of fine Italian manufacture. It is part of the V/58/16 model. The...

Untitled mid-century modern Italian impressionist oil on board painting of a village or town square landscape. The painting features beautifully detailed b...

This is a large antique carved portrait. An Italian, oak decorative relief panel, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Of superb proportion and wonderful craftsmanship D...

16 fogli mosaico Bisazza originale, anni 90 montati su rete. dim 30 x 30 cm adatti uso rivestimento vasi, cornici, rivestimento. adatti anche per uso in esterno. fogli pronti da inc...

5 fogli mosaico Bisazza originale, anni 90 montati su rete. dim 30 x 30 cm adatti uso rivestimento vasi, cornici, rivestimento. adatti anche per uso in esterno. fogli pronti da inco...

A fashinating 17th century Italian Virgin with Child, an hand-made rectangular shaped relief devotional plaque in polychrome glazed terracotta depicting a Madonna with Child, dating ...

Italian frieze in hand-carved wood and gilded gold-leaf. Made by a good craftsman who carved it by hand, copying from an ancient frieze. (See all my p...

An exceptional and extremely decorative Italian early 19th century Louis XVI st. giltwood decorative wall decor. The wall decor is centered by a beautiful richly carved tied blooming...

These elegant wall sconces were hand-carved in Italy. They have been wired to serve as lamps and feature sumptuously hand painted shades. The whole is composted of intricately carved...

Long Italian antique frieze in silvered copper on wooden base. It is no longer easy to find these ancient friezes: this is very decorative and can be hu...

A very handsome Italian 18th century white Carrara marble and giltwood plaque. This finely carved white Carrara marble plaqu...

Large Baroque frame with a collection of Italian cars from the 1960s/70s inside, a particular and very unique work inspired by Pop Art.

Molded glass gile depicting a wounded gazelle by Napoleone Martinuzzi (1892-1977) circa 1930 for Venini, molded mark 'NM' An example of this model was employed in a floor lamp de...

A stunning and extremely decorative complete set of four Italian 19th century Florentine st. Pietra Dura marble and giltwood wall plaques. Each w...

From our hand painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Bellini Panel. An exquisite decorative wooden panel inspired by the famous Venetian cocktail inven...

A light-blue, vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian wall mirror made of hand blown crystal glass. Original colored mirror glass, enhanced by detailed flower decoration, designed by Luig...

Serpent & Galleon, Ink on Paper, in an 18th Century GiltWood Frame.

Italian mid-century shaped solid brass mirror 1950 gold, the mirror has some age spots and scratches as per the original.

Italy, 18th Century Ceramic hanging platter. Measures: Ø 34 x D 5 cm.

A light-brown, vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian wall mirror with its original mirror glass, enhanced by brass nailheads, designed by Paolo Buffa in good condition. The backside of ...

A northern Italian early XVIII century painting of Francesco Perezzoli, depicting the birth of Venus. Oil on canvas. Original guild wood frame. Italy circa 1700.

Nerone & Patuzzi inspired; Nioi; Craftsman; Italy; Art; Wall Piece; Wall Panel; Hand-Crafted; Hand-Carved; Giovanni Ceccarelli; Luigi Marchisotti; Nioi Hand-Carved Wall Panel in t...

1930s colored drawing inscribed on the back "Promenade" This important drawing we can very likely attribute to the Italian master Carlo Carrà. The beauti...

Moses and the bronze serpent depicted in low relief carving in Italian Marmo Ross di Verona. Handcrafted replica of a Tau Cross XIII century artifac...

Italian antique frieze in hand-carved wood and gilded gold leaf. Very rare. (See my published ancient friezes). You can hang it on the headboard, on a...

Beautiful squared wall mounted tile platen or vide-poche in colored ceramic by the Italian artisti Giovanni De Simone. Giovanni De Simone was a great Sicilian artist...

Enclosed in a frame entirely covered in black nappa leather, this unique decorative wall sculpture is composed of pure geometric shapes of different colors arranged in an abstract st...

We offer a very interesting work of art, this ,s an excepcional Italian Baroque Oil /canvas , showing a Rubens and Van Dyck portrait, teacher and student together !!! Peter Paul Rub...

A beautiful Italian grand Tour Style Pietra Dura mosaic on marble Plaque with gilt framing. Picture is a bird on branch with leaves and flowers.

Decorate a music room, den or office with this elegant and colorful antique wall mounted lyre. Crafted in Italy circa 1780, the large Classical Roman musical instrument featured two ...

An extraordinary piece of op art, this wall decor by Splot Design will make for a bold and iconic addition to a contemporary interior. Eclectic and singular, it exudes a sophisticated vintage allure...

A most elegant and high quality true pair of Italian 19th century Neo-Classical st. Rosso Antico marble and ormolu wall plaques. Each striking plaque is framed within a circular mottled ormolu border with a fine seashell reserve at the top flanked by beautiful foliate movements. At the center are the handsome Roman soldier and the elegant maiden set on their original Rosso Antico marble backgrounds...