Indian Copper Water Pot
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Minimalist Chandeliers and Pendants
Copper
Antique 19th Century Indian Agra Planters and Jardinieres
Brass, Copper
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Antique Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Table Lamps
Brass, Enamel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Floor Lamps
Plastic, Carbon Fiber
Early 20th Century Anglo-Indian Planters and Jardinieres
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
Early 20th Century Indian Folk Art Metalwork
Silver, Brass, Copper
Antique Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Barware
Silver Plate, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Copper
2010s European Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Antique 19th Century Indian Folk Art Planters and Jardinieres
Brass, Copper
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum, Brass
20th Century Polish Industrial Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1970s German Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass, Opaline Glass
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Industrial Chandeliers and Pendants
Enamel
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Copper
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Early 20th Century Planters and Jardinieres
Copper, Iron
Mid-20th Century Nepalese Anglo-Indian Metalwork
Copper
Antique Late 19th Century Indian Islamic Bottles
Bronze, Copper
Antique 19th Century Indian Planters and Jardinieres
Copper
Antique 19th Century Indian Planters and Jardinieres
Copper
Materials: copper Furniture
From cupolas to cookware and fine art to filaments, copper metal has been used in so many ways since prehistoric times. Today, antique, new and vintage copper coffee tables, mirrors, lamps and other furniture and decor can bring a warm metallic flourish to interiors of any kind.
In years spanning 8,700 BC (the time of the first-known copper pendant) until roughly 3,700 BC, it may have been the only metal people knew how to manipulate.
Valuable deposits of copper were first extracted on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus around 4,000 BC — well before Europe’s actual Bronze Age (copper + tin = bronze). Tiny Cyprus is even credited with supplying all of Egypt and the Near East with copper for the production of sophisticated currency, weaponry, jewelry and decorative items.
In the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, master painters such as Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, Rembrandt and Jan Brueghel created fine works on copper. (Back then, copper-based pigments, too, were all the rage.) By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, decorative items like bas-relief plaques, trays and jewelry produced during the Art Deco, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau periods espoused copper. These became highly valuable and collectible pieces and remain so today.
Copper’s beauty, malleability, conductivity and versatility make it perhaps the most coveted nonprecious metal in existence. In interiors, polished copper begets an understated luxuriousness, and its reflectivity casts bright, golden and earthy warmth seldom realized in brass or bronze. (Just ask Tom Dixon.)
Outdoors, its most celebrated attribute — the verdigris patina it slowly develops from exposure to oxygen and other elements — isn’t the only hue it takes. Architects often refer to shades of copper as russet, ebony, plum and even chocolate brown. And Frank Lloyd Wright, Renzo Piano and Michael Graves have each used copper in their building projects.
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