Hand-Crafted Bookcases

Discover a timeless fusion of craftsmanship and style with our stunning mid-century étagère. Meticulously hand-crafted using a unique blend of wood and gesso, this shelf unit showcas...

Composition description Wall mounting bracket - 5 x 3 x H285 cm + 5 x 3 x H247 cm Mate black metal (SCM-16) + Bims in brushed bronze metal (SCM-14) Shelves high profile 800 - 80 x ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for this really quite stunning Antique circa 1860-1880 Art Nouveau style bookcase which is wonderfully curved to the ...

19th Century Victorian Mahogany Revolving Bookcase has two tiers of book storage and four vertical mahogany slats to each side and the revolving platform base. Circa: 1880 Dimensio...

We are so excited to present to you this vintage mahogany dwarf bookcase. We have lightly restored this by giving it a hand clean all over, hand waxed and hand polish. Please ...

19th Century Swedish Painted Bookcase features a stately, tailored architecture that makes it incredibly versatile in a wide variety of decor ...

Low curved bookcase in English walnut with panelled back, can be used centrally in a room or placed against a wall. Each end of the bookcase is made fr...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very fine antique Sheraton Revival Mahogany & Satinwood revolving bookcase table A very good looking well made and decorative piece. Made i...

19th Century French Renaissance Hunt Buffet ~ Bookcase is a majestic way to decorate your room, while simultaneously providing display and storage with incredible style! Starting wi...

This bookcase is a hand made reproduction of a bookcase from the Louis-Philppe periode in France in the mid 19th century. It is caracterized by its curved moldings, hand-curved feet ...

This bookshelf is made from Florida mahogany using traditional joinery. The mortise and tenon joint is visible from the side of the bookshelf. I work with a master woodworker to crea...

This is Niagara Furnitures’ Small Penhurst Mahogany Bookcase. The figural mahogany cornice is beautiful and adds a sense of depth to t...

A rare Art Deco period eight-piece study suite set in the manner of famous Austrian architect, designer, and Vienna Secession founder Josef Hoffman (Austria, 1870-1956), circa 1920. Exquisitely handcrafted in Austria in the early 20th century, most likely Vienna, featuring fine quality craftsmanship and solid wood construction, featuring Biedermeier inspired Viennese Art Deco styling of simplicity, strict, geometric lines with minimal surface embellishment, instead of ornamentation putting the focus on high-quality materials. The matching eight-piece set comprising a tanker writing desk with inset leather surface, surmounted with raised gallery fitted with drawers flanking richly figured quilted diamond inlay, rising on double pedestals with locking cupboard doors opening to stacked shelved tray interior, affixed with patinated brass pulls and escutcheons, retaining original keys, finished on all sides so it can be placed anywhere in the room, and paired with a comfortable armchair with upholstered seat and backrest. A large eight door bookcase storage cabinet with original glass panels, adjustable shelves, and cocktail drinks bar slide. A centre card table with rectangular shaped canted corner top featuring inset green baize felt games playing surface, over conforming apron fitted with dovetailed drawers, rising on square column pedestal, surrounded by four upholstered side chairs. PROVENANCE / ACQUISITION: Property from the important Estate of Myra Janco Daniels (1925-2022) Naples, Florida. A legendary business woman, philanthropist, and arts advocate who built the institution known today as Artis—Naples and made Naples a cultural destination. Additional info below. Acquired from highly reputable auction house, Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas. Design Signature Auction catalog #8110 Condition Report: Great original antique condition with beautifully aged warm mellow patina. Strong, sturdy and structurally sound. Overall very attractive condition; no significant losses or restorations; wear consistent with over 100 years of age and indicative of use. Delivered cleaned, waxed, hand rubbed polished French patina finish, ready for immediate use and generational enjoyment! ABOUT THE LEGENDARY PREVIOUS OWNER: We normally don't post about the prior owners life, but in the case of Myra Janco Daniels (1925-2022) we felt her incredible story be shared. The arts visionary and advertising Pioneer who helped transform Southwest Florida into a nationally recognized cultural destination, died June 22, three days before her 97th birthday. Daniels was founder and longtime CEO of the Philharmonic Center for the Arts (now Artis-Naples), which since 1989 has brought world-class music, theater, dance, opera, and art to Naples. In 2000, she founded the Naples Museum of Art (now the Baker Museum) on that same campus. After a storied career as an advertising executive in Chicago, Daniels came out of retirement in the early 1980s to spearhead a fund-raising drive for a small classical music ensemble on MarCo Island, which would later become the Naples Philharmonic orchestra. She discovered “a great hunger for the arts,” she later wrote, and soon expanded her fundraising goal to building a permanent home for the orchestra and an arts center for Southwest Florida. Daniels’ vision for the Philharmonic Center was ambitious and unusual – combining world-class performing and visual arts in a single venue. The Community strongly supported the concept, and the Phil, as it became known, gave Naples a national arts profile. Then-First Lady Barbara Bush was in attendance on opening night in November 1989. The Wall Street Journal covered the opening. “Myra Daniels is a dreamer. But unlike most dreamers, Myra is a doer,” the late Muriel Seibert, the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, once said of Daniels. While the arts were a lifelong passion for Daniels, her first career was as a groundbreaking advertising executive in Chicago, where she won national Advertising Woman of the Year honors and was among the first women to head a national ad firm. Daniels said that she used some of the same principles learned in her advertising career to sell Southwest Florida on the arts. “You have to believe in what you’re doing and then you have to get people involved to the point that they feel it’s theirs. That’s what we did.” Born Myra Janco in Gary, Indiana, Daniels was raised during the Great Depression by parents who encouraged her interest in the arts. But her greatest influence growing up was her grandmother Sophie, who, like Daniels, stood only five feet tall but dreamed big. “Sophie showed me what was possible,” Daniels wrote. “Create something that people want and need and you’ll be successful, she said. I always remembered that.” Her grandmother, who ran her own real estate business, experienced some failures “but she always dusted herself off and went back out there swinging. She wanted me to be that way too.” Daniels earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana State and later became an associate professor of marketing at Indiana University, the first woman to hold that position. In her mid-20s, she started Wabash Advertising in Terre Haute, Indiana, which later became affiliated with larger agencies in Chicago and Cleveland. In 1963, she was named executive vice president of Roche, Rickard, Henri, Hurst, Inc. in Chicago. The National Advertising Federation honored Daniels as its Advertising Woman of the Year in 1965, the youngest woman to receive the award. That same year, she became president of a new national agency that she formed with ad man Draper Daniels. The merger was not just a professional one. Draper Daniels, who was responsible for many famous ad campaigns at the time, including the Marlboro Man and was later an inspiration for the Don Draper character on TV’s Mad Men, became her husband in 1967. Myra wrote about their unusual courtship and life together for Chicago magazine, in an article entitled “I Married a Mad Man,” which was included in her book Secrets of a Rutbuster. They ran the Draper Daniels, Incorporated agency, as it was called, until 1977. When Draper wanted to retire to Southwest Florida, Myra Daniels reluctantly left Chicago and advertising, and they settled on MarCo Island. But after Draper died of cancer in 1983, Myra turned her energies to the fundraising Campaign that led to the Philharmonic Center Cultural Complex. Daniels served as CEO of the Philharmonic Center from its inception in the 1980s to her retirement in 2011, building the Phil into a $100 million corporation. During that time, the Naples Philharmonic became a nationally recognized orchestra, with a Grammy nomination, CD and appearances on PBS; and the Naples Museum of Art developed an international reputation. The center also helped change people’s perception of Naples, which had been known mostly for its beaches and golfing. In 2005, Naples was named the Best Small Art Town in America in a book that singled out the Phil. More than just an arts venue, the Philharmonic Center also wove the arts into the culture of the Community, providing public school programs, adult and children’s education classes and workshops, and free concerts throughout Southwest Florida. Edward Villella, legendary dancer with the New York City Ballet and founder of Miami City...

Vintage early 1970s bookshelf or display cabinet by De Coene, Belgium. This three door cabinet is made of solid wood with clear glass. The doors have magnetic closures. Moveable shel...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely antique Bevan Funnell LTD glazed mahogany bookcase. Well made in the 20th century, it has dental-s...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original circa 1880 English Victorian two tier rotating book table with pokerwork top A very good look...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very good looking and well made pair of circa 1900 English mahogany paneled library...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very fine, antique Sheraton Revival Mahogany, Walnut & Satinwood revolving bookcase table Please note ...

19th Century French Louis XIII Bookcase in Stripped Oak is a majestic reminder of the glorious revivals of designs spanning millennia that occurred during the middle to the end of th...

Experience the fusion of classic craftsmanship and modern allure with our exquisitely restored mid-century bookcase. Crafted meticulously from a unique blend of wood and gesso, this ...

A Superb Quality Inlaid Mahogany Bookcase from Niagara Furniture with bellflower and satinwood inlay decorative details. The top section with a moulded cornice featuring hand cut sat...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this super rare and highly collectable, fully restored Boeckh Brothers LTD circa 1910-1920 metamorphic bakers shelf...

This excellent quality Stacking Mahogany Bookcase or barrister bookcase consists of seven separate pieces: a cap, a base and five glass sections. The oversized atlas sized base secti...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, very unique, Burr Walnut revolving book table which has been fully restored Plea...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of tall free standing open bookcases with drawers to the base and Crocodile / Alligator leather finish A very good looking well made and decorative pair of open library...

Mortise is a low-rise bookshelf conceived for elegant and flexible storage, capable of extending up to 9' ft wide thanks to a smart modular design that can be packed flat. The piece ...

19th Century French Napoleon III Period Neoclassical Mahogany Bookcase ~ Bibliotheque is the perfect choice for adding timeless flair an...

Mortise is a low-rise bookshelf conceived for elegant and flexible storage, capable of extending up to 9' ft wide thanks to a smart modular design that can be packed flat. The piece ...

Top design and top quality workmanship from Amsterdam from the early 1900's. One of a kind bookcase or side cabinet from 't Modelhuis by Jewish furni...

Fabulous arts & crafts mission bookcase with 5 sections, 3 leaded glass door compartments which have storage space. Sizes are, 32x 9.5x 10h, 32x 9.5 x 10.5h, 32 x 9.5 x 8.75h. Drawer...

Beautiful antique armoire French Provincial Louis XV burled walnut and walnut with three adjustable interior shelves, late 1700's, 18th Century. This 18th c. This French burled walnut armoire...

The Anta da Arca bookcase, inspired by a Portuguese legend, is a seductive piece that transcends traditional and modern borders. Its modern minimalist design with a touch of sophisti...

This very popular Penhurst Mahogany Bookcase from Niagara Furniture has a lot of great features. It’s overall breakfront shape separates it from other flat fronted bookcases, the fig...

An excellent quality Mahogany Open Bookcase produced by Niagara Furniture. The top section features a moulded cornice with hand cut satinwood inlays arranged in a drape pattern. The ...

Imposing 20th century library bookcase crafted from solid oak. The impressive upper case features two sets of beveled glass panel doors with neoclassical ionic style columns separati...

Super Victorian burr walnut breakfront bookcase or side cabinet, circa 1850, of fine quality with a double moulded top above a frieze with carved roundels and fielded panels to the p...

An excellent quality Large Mahogany Bookcase produced by Niagara Furniture. The top section features a moulded cornice with hand cut satinwood inlays arranged in a drape pattern. The...

19th Century French Walnut Henri II Bookcase ~ Display Armoire is a splendid example of one of the classic French styles revived during the reign of the country's last monarch, Napol...

The Anta da Arca bookshelf, inspired by a Portuguese legend, is a seductive piece that transcends traditional and modern borders. Its modern minimalist design with a touch of sophist...

A stunning quality 18th century, George III period mahogany bureau bookcase retaining the original patina. Well proportioned mahogany bookcase with moulded cornice above a pair of as...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite 18th century library bookcase with 15th century Jacobean...

Our version of a breakfront bookcase, this is the Niagara Furniture Four Door Bookcase. The shape of the piece with the center section protruding pa...

19th Century French Louis Philippe Period Cherry Bookcase ~ China Buffet is a timeless rendition of the genre, executed in beautifully aged cherry wood presenting a splendid figure a...

A highly functional and decorative two part Mahogany Tall Bookcase cabinet resting on shaped bracket feet. Large doors without lattice work allow for fu...

Grand Antique Neoclassical Painted Bookcase attains a restrained architecture inspired by the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, with rectilinear design enhanced with proporti...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of vintage Flamed Mahogany waterfall bookcases with single drawers and cupboard bases Ple...

Wimbledon-Furniture Wimbledon-Furniture is delighted to offer for sale lovely solid English oak Maple & Co stamped Library bookcase with height adjustable shelves Please note the d...

Fantastic post modern bookcase or etagere display hand-crafted by artisans from reclaimed douglas fir. The imposing shelf has a rustic intentionally aged patina with a light grey was...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning pair of circa 1900 solid mahogany dwarf open bookcases with brass gallery rail, single drawers and original castors A v...

Beautiful six-door cabinet with brass details and adjustable solid oak shelves. Fantastic patina/age-cracked finish on the cabinet's original, untouched surface. This fully functioni...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for this absolutely stunning REH Kennedy England made for Harrods London Astral Glazed library bookcase...

Stylish Mid-Century Modern four-shelf etagere or bookcase featuring a rattan wrapped frame made in the manner and style of Bielecky Brothers with gracefully curved corners. The shelv...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely Bradley Burr yew wood low open bookcase with adjustable shelves. A very well made, stable and good looking piece made by the well kno...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely Bevan Funnell Astral Glazed Bookcase. We have lightly restored this by cleaning it, waxing and...

An early 20th century, good quality painted mahogany 4-door secretaire breakfront library bookcase, the moulded cornice above four astragal glazed doors, opening to adjustable shelve...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning highly collectable hand painted duck egg blue Victorian pine pot cupboard or bookcase A very charming and highly collectable piece...

A 19th century French Louis Philippe étagère, or tiered shelf, made of solid mahogany, finished on all sides and retaining a nice luster. Shaped shelves with bead trim supported by t...

Morris & Co. A fine mahogany glazed breakfront bookcase designed by George Jack of exceptional quality typical to all Morris & Co furniture. With upper and lower central glazed secti...