Adam Wood

Thomas Pheasant for Baker Furniture Adam Bench This bench measures: 53 wide x 16.75 deep x 18.75 high, with a seat height/chair clearance of 18.75 inches We take our photos in a co...

A carved wood and painted Adam style demi lune console table with foliate motif inlaid top, fluted and gilt apron and legs.

An antique Adam style pine and gesso fire mantel reclaimed from a property in Edinburgh. This Scottish fireplace is ornately decorated with composition across the frieze in true 18th...

Tom Dolan Hand Painted Adam and Eve Folk Chair

The figure is hand-welded from hundreds of individual steel rods, which are woven, twisted, and tensioned to create a translucent exoskeleton. Mounted on wood base. No signature. Bru...

An impressive Victorian stained glass window by Adam & Small of Glasgow made in circa 1895 to commemorate the opening of the Old Man's Friend Society in Rottenrow Balmanno House in 1...

Adjustable writing table with Adam and Eve inlay. Professionally stained and repolished.

An antique Scottish pine and composition fire surround in the style of Robert Adam. Dating from the late 18th century, this antique fireplace displays beautiful hand carved elements...

An oil on board painting depicting a Scottish landscape with lake by Welsh-born Scottish artist John Adam Houston. The painting is framed. The painting is signed and date 84 on the l...

This exceptionally elegant Louis XVI-style occasional table, in the manner of Adam Weisweiler, combines the restrained architecture of late eighteenth-century French neoclassicism wi...

The stained and tapered wood legs pair perfectly with the organic form of the body.

The stained and tapered wood legs pair perfectly with the organic form of the body.

Rare Gilt wood Adam Period Demi Lune console table with Sienna Marble Top Bearing the Tag Archer Cowley & Co Oxford.

Adam Ross walks the line between abstraction and realism in his complex, layered paintings. His landscapes are apocalyptic explosions of color, bold and inventive compositions that s...

This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels.

This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels.

ADAM STRAUS STILL LOOKING FOR THE PROMISED LAND, 2018 oil on newspaper and shopping lists adhered to jute adhered to wood, framed in lead 41 x 63 in. 104.1 x 160 cm.

Dimensions: 23.25 inches high x 26 inches wide x 16.75 inches deep

English Adam (circa 1780) gilt wood console with a carved frieze over rams head topped fluted legs with a stretcher & alabaster veneered marble top with a verde edge.

Fantastic hand-painted and carved lodge piece from the Midwest. Painting depicts Eve picking the apple from the snakes mouth. The Stand has a hand-carved snake that wraps around the ...

An interesting late 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted two-tier pastry table Round marble-top table centered with an upper tier with a pierced bronze rim, the four c...

A striking pair of Neoclassical-style twin beds, each finely hand-painted with garlands, scrolling foliate motifs, and central medallions depicting classical figures in pastoral scen...

A gorgeous antique gilt bronze Neoclassical or Adam style rocker blotter By Tiffany Studios (signed on the side) New York, USA, Early 20th Century Measures: 5.5"W x 2.75"D x 2"H ...

From Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve, 1507 Akin to the historical narratives we’re fed in an attempt to steer us away from a life of lies, the narrative of Adam, Eve, and the serpent ...

“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.” – Immanuel Kant A recent online story in the German news outlet Deustche Welle post...

I am primarily a painter of things and my practice has grown out of a process of subverting the genre of still life. For my most recent paintings I have been working in an improvisat...

A fine pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany console tables, in the manner of Adam Weisweiler. Each table has a rectangular with fleur de pecher marble top above th...

This elegant bronze-mounted and ebonized settee is a sophisticated interpretation of the celebrated Neoclassical designs associated with Adam Weisweiler, one of the most distinguis...

From Jan Matejko’s Stańczyk, 1862 I’ve heard that in centuries past, the jester – or fool – was often one of the only people able to speak truth to power. Because of their inherent ...

A portrait of Ted Turner, founder of CNN and by extension a 24-hour news cycle I’ll blame everything wrong with America on Ted Turner. Don’t misread me – he didn’t do anything that ...

From John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, 1919 When considering the factors that are required (or at least helpful) for a lie to succeed, I constantly look to the audience. I constantly tr...

From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875 As we seek this fine line separating safe lying from detrimental misdirection, we often have to cross it...

From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642 The search for limits is an ongoing endeavor. Circu...

A donkey, symbol of the Democratic Party Democrats promote themselves as consistently ethical. So, when they inevitably get caught lying, the fault is compounded by their hypocrisy....

A portrait of the Wizard from The Wizard of Oz, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939 Whenever I’ve watched The Wizard of Oz, I’ve always been struck by the same thing – that the actor who play...

A portrait of Lance Armstrong We tend to exercise differing levels of tolerance for different liars. Some people get called out immediately, while others are given a pass time and t...

A portrait of Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers I suppose I like to believe that liars know they’re lying. I like to believe it’s a controlled activity. And if they know what they’re doing, I...

A portrait of Charles Ponzi When we combine the power of lies to persuade with their ability to establish a false hierarchy, we end up with Charles Ponzi – the eponym of the Ponzi S...

From an illustration by Arthur Rackham for Alice in Wonderland – “They all crowded round it panting and asking, ‘But who has won?’” 1907 There’s a fear of inferiority that lies behi...

From John William Waterhouse’s A Mermaid, 1900 We have a wonderful capacity to impose fictions on others in order to make them desirable. We only need a few kernels of possibility t...

Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, 1484-86 We desire attention, but no one likes a show-off. So, we’ve sharpened our ability to practice false modesty. We pretend to cover ours...

A portrait of Sasquatch (Harry from Harry and the Hendersons, Universal Pictures, 1987) Developing almost simultaneously with my appreciation of mannequins, I fell in love with what...

From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652 Sooner or later, we get caught lying. For most of us, it’s incredibly early in life, and the falsehood detected is innocuou...

A portrait of Pinocchio from Pinocchio, Disney, 1940 Are there any more recognizable stories about the difficulties that can accompany lying than that of Pinocchio? For the puppet-...

A beautiful late 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze and Sèvres style porcelain mounted parquetry cabinet. A marble top above a single door adorned with Sèvres style porcelai...

The stained and tapered wood legs pair perfectly with the organic form of the body.

From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875 At some point the lying has to stop, right? But when? I’m no longer convinced that any external stimulus...

From a series of paintings by Ed Valigursky. Our technology is staggering. We now have computers that can lie for us. For proof you only need to head over to any online comment boar...

A portrait of Kellyanne Conway While the statement for this show indicates that there are no formal teachers of proper lying technique, it doesn’t deny that there are individuals ou...

A red-and-green parrot. For a lie to gain real power, it must continue its existence separate from its creator. If it can be repeated by others, retold in a variety of contexts, it ...

From Johannes Vermeer’s A Girl Asleep, 1656-57 Learning to lie is a bit like learning how to play a game. There are strategies. There’s an opponent. It can be fun because it’s a cha...

A portrait of news anchor Brian Williams Similar to the regular fall of the Democrats, Brian Williams positioned himself as a figure worthy of our trust nightly. He convinced us tha...

From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642 Forgive and forget. That’s what we’re taught to do ...

A portrait of Mark McGwire If we are caught lying, it is the suddenly being singled-out that proves most unsettling. We are temporarily relieved of our ability to define our own pub...

From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875 Knowing what we do about insufficient consequences, we will always test the limits of acceptable lying. ...

A portrait of Baron Munchausen from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Columbia Pictures, 1988 The concept of Munchausen Syndrome offers another perspective on lying. When we lie, ...

A mannequin For some reason, mannequins seemed to be everywhere when I was growing up. Maybe it was growing up during the heyday of malls in America. Nevertheless, with their clearl...

From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652 As we invariably test the waters of lying, we quickly learn to recognize the more forgiving members of an audience. Rest as...

A portrait of Abraham Lincoln We’ve assigned a great deal of responsibility to our shared cultural figures when it comes to teaching lessons about truth, fiction, and morality. We u...

This “Adam” model is from the timeless and iconic Paradise Collection from the Triva Series, which was created in 1958 by Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist during her time as a designer at No...