$2,600 / item
Jacques Lucite and Brass Étagère
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Our Jacques collection is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. Shown in crystal clear Lucite with brushed brass. Also available in moody...
Brass
Jacques Acrylic and Brass Console by Jonathan Adler
By Jonathan Adler
Located in Houston, TX
Clearly cool. The Jacques console is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. Crafted with crystal clear acrylic and brushed brass corners. Fitted with a ...
Brass
Jonathan Adler Jacques Acrylic Console Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in Bradenton, FL
Luxe clear acrylic with brushed brass accents and fitted with a low glass shelf for baubles or books. This Jonathan Adler Jacques Console works perfectly behind a sofa or looks fab i...
Brass
Jonathan Adler "Jacques" Étagère Signed on Lower Rear with Metal Label
By Jonathan Adler
Located in Kingston, NY
Offered is a signed Jonathan Adler "jacques" plexiglass and chrome étagère.
Chrome
Jonathan Adler Jacques Acrylic And Brass Dining Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in Rochester, England
Designed by Jonathan Adler, this contemporary Jacques dining table has an elegant mid century aesthetic.
Brass
Sold
H 26.5 in W 18 in D 20 in
Vintage Contemporary Jonathan Adler “Jacques” Two Tier Lucite Side Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fabulous vintage Contemporary Lucite side table. A beauty from Jonathan Adler named “Jacques” Lucite rods with brushed brass joints and inset glass shelves.
Brass
Jacques Lucite and Brass Console
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Our Jacques collection is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional, in crystal clear Lucite with brushed brass corners. Fitted with a low gla...
Brass
Jacques Lucite and Brass Étagère
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Our Jacques collection is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. Shown in crystal clear Lucite with brushed brass. Also available in moody...
Brass
Jacques Lucite and Brass Game Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. The perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. Crystal clear Lucite with brushed brass corners. Nothing finishes a room like a game table in a cor...
Brass
Jacques Lucite and Brass Bar Cart
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Bar carts are the swankiest of all home decors. Two glass shelves offer plenty of space for your chosen aperitif and your fabulous barware. Shown in ethereal transparen...
Brass
Jacques Smoke Lucite and Nickel Bar Cart
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Bar carts are the swankiest of all home decor. Our Jacques Bar Cart comes in a moody smoke acrylic with silver trimmings. Two glass shelves offer plenty of space for yo...
Nickel
Jacques Lucite and Brass Column Table Lamp
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. The perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. Our Jacques column table lamp features crystal clear acrylic framework with brushed brass corners t...
Brass
Jacques Grand Cocktail Table in Lucite and Brass
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Our Jacques collection is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. In clear Lucite with brushed brass accents, it's low and lounge. The size...
Brass
Jacques Lucite and Brass Two-Tier Accent Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Our Jacques collection is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. In clear Lucite with brushed brass accents, this petite cube is perfect n...
Brass
Jacques Smoke Lucite and Nickel Étagère
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Our Jacques collection is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. Shown in moody smoke Lucite and nickel. Also available in crystal clear L...
Nickel
Jacques Lucite and Brass Dining Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Our Jacques collection is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. Featuring luxe clear acrylic with brushed brass corners, our Jacques dini...
Brass
Large Jacques Tray in Smoke Lucite and Nickel
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Our Jacques collection is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. Corral your prized possessions without crowding your space. Our large Jac...
Nickel
Large Jacques Tray in Smoke Lucite and Nickel
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Our Jacques collection is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. Corral your prized possessions without crowding your space. Our large Jac...
Nickel
Small Jacques Tray in Smoke Lucite and Nickel
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. A petite version of our popular Jacques Tray, this size is perfect for a vanity, console, cocktail table, or even the kitchen counter. Corral your prized possessions wi...
Nickel
Large Jacques Tray in Clear Lucite and Brass
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Clearly cool. Our Jacques collection is the perfect blend of simplicity and glamour, modern and traditional. Corral your prized possessions without crowding your space. Available in ...
Brass
$34,000
H 32 in W 48 in D 20 in
Pair Available- Breathtaking Restored Art Deco Commode by Widdicomb, circa 1938
By Widdicomb Furniture Co.
Located in Atlanta, GA
These magnificent commodes are shipped as professionally photographed and described in the listing narrative: Meticulously professionally restored and completely installation ready. ...
Brass
$15,439 / item
H 32.68 in W 110.24 in D 40.56 in
Art Deco Sofa by Munna Design Studio with Velvet Upholstery
By Munna Design Studio
Located in New York, NY
This sofa features a wonderfully elegant fan-shaped motif, with its accentuated curvy lines with decadent and lavish finish. The feminine curves are ravishingly enhanced by the diffe...
Velvet
Rosso Wall Mirror
By Specchi Veneziani
Located in Milan, IT
Crafted in the finest Murano tradition, this exquisite Venetian mirror is a true work of art. Assembled with crystal and gold elements, and adorned with red glass flowers, each piece...
Glass
Pair of 70s Style Italian Bamboo and Brass Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Monumental size Bamboo lamps. Crafted in Italy and made to order, these lamps are modern and chic. Production lead time 2-4 weeks. Base diameter 8 inches, hat diameter 20 inches, he...
Brass
Art Deco Burl Etagere
Located in Westwood, NJ
Showcasing a bold geometric design, this open shelving unit is crafted with luxurious golden mappa burl wood veneer and gleaming brass accents. Its asymmetrical tiers provide an eleg...
Brass
$3,200Sale Price|66% Off
H 89.5 in W 48 in D 13 in
Billy Baldwin Style Metal & Brass Etagere Book Shelves, 20th Century
Located in Southampton, NY
Billy Baldwin Style Metal & Brass Etagere Book Shelves, 20th Century This etagere, crafted from metal, brass and faux leather shelves, showcases a minimalist yet elegant design. ...
Metal, Brass
Renato Zevi Chrome and Brass Small Étagère
By Romeo Rega, Belgo Chrome
Located in Hanover, MA
This is a chromed steel and brass trim small scale étagère, in the round, open from all sides, with four removable tempered safety glass shelves; two center, one floating on top and ...
Brass, Chrome
Globo Console
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Futuristic elegance. A glossy, white lacquer cabinet cradled by a sinuous brass framework and capped with blue solid acrylic cabochons. Small footprint but big impact, our Globo cons...
Brass
$7,500Sale Price / set|50% Off
H 30 in W 36 in D 16 in
Pair of 1960's Hollywood Regency Duquette Style Gold Leaf & Eglomise Cabinets
By Tony Duquette, Lane Furniture
Located in Hanover, MA
BG WINTER SALE Amazing and rare pair of vintage early 1960's cabinets from from an outrageously over-the-top period Hollywood Regency decorated home outside of Boston; think Zsa Zsa...
Art Glass, Giltwood
Milo Baughman Chrome and Glass Etagere/Bookshelf, 1960
By Milo Baughman
Located in Chicago, IL
Milo Baughman Chrome and Glass Etagere/Bookshelf, 1960. Original, bottom glass has chip on side. Measures 76" tall 16" deep 38" long
Chrome
Pair of Italian Gold Gilt Étagères Shelving Units
By LaBarge
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Pair of vintage Italian gold gilt smoked glass shelves étagères with pineapple finials. Smoked glass shelving and a cane shelf. Classic styling with a pop. Curbside to NYC/Philly $600
Metal
$25,400Sale Price|27% Off
H 56.5 in W 47.25 in D 33.25 in
'Pompeiana' Corner Cabinet by Piero Fornasetti, Italy, 2 of 2 in 1988, Signed
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 'much larger than it looks' collectors item is the 'Pompeiana' corner cabinet by Piero Fornasetti, completed in 1988, signed, dated and numbered 2 of 2. Fornasetti cabinets, es...
Brass
Hollywood Regency Etagere in Brass and Steel, Maison Jansen Style
By Maison Jansen
Located in New York, NY
Hollywood Regency style Etagere featuring a chromed steel frame with solid brass accents and 5 glass shelves. A great addition to any living room area or bathroom.
Brass, Steel
Amuneal's Collector’s Wardrobe + Vanity 4 Bay Unit
By Amuneal
Located in New York, NY
Four bays of Amuneal’s collector’s shelving system is used to create this modular wardrobe unit with silvered oak shelves, dresser, vanity table and mirror. The precision design and ...
Brass
Design Institute of America Brass Etagere
By Design Institute America
Located in Redding, CT
Design Institute of America brass etagere. Elegant Hollywood Regency style piece. There are eight glass shelves of various sizes. We do have the glass, they show in the last few pho...
Brass
Delphine Mirrored Bar
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Minimalist forms meet Maximalist glamour. Antiqued mirror with a polished brass base. The robin's egg blue interior is fitted with four adjustable tempered glass shelves, plus six wi...
Brass
Potter-turned-home-design guru Jonathan Adler is a man with a peripatetic mind, inspired in equal parts, it seems, by classic modern design, Surrealism and pop culture.
Although his namesake company has expanded into a mini empire touching just about every aspect of modern living — chairs and ice buckets, wallpaper and menorahs, chandeliers and rugs — made in myriad materials, Adler still creates almost every object in clay first. His guiding principle is a simple one: “I make the stuff I want to surround myself with, and I surround myself with it.”
Adler grew up in a New Jersey farm town. His grandfather became a local judge, and his father returned home after graduating from the University of Chicago. “My pop was a brilliantly talented artist. At one point, he had to decide whether to become an artist or a —,” he pauses, searching for the right word, “person.” His father became a lawyer but spent all his free time in his studio, “making art, unencumbered by the need to make money from it. It was a totally pure pursuit.” Adler’s mother, who had worked at Vogue and moved to the rural town reluctantly, was also creative, and both parents encouraged their three children’s creativity.
When he was 12, Adler went to sleepaway camp, where he threw his first pot. “And it was on,” he says. His parents bought him a pottery wheel, and he spent the remainder of his adolescence elbow-deep in clay. Even while majoring in semiotics and art history at Brown University, he hung out at the nearby Rhode Island School of Design, making pots.
Adler moved to New York City, worked briefly in entertainment, and in 1993 returned to his true love, throwing pots (in exchange for teaching classes) at a Manhattan studio called Mud Sweat & Tears. One day, at Balducci’s food market, he ran into Bill Sofield, an old friend who had recently cofounded, with Thomas O’Brien, the now-legendary Aero Studios, a design firm and shop. Sofield paid a studio visit and promptly gave him an order. Then, another friend introduced Adler to a buyer at Barneys New York, who also wrote an order.
For about three years after Adler began devoting himself to ceramics full-time. Despite the street cred of both Aero and Barneys, he also wasn’t really making enough money to live on. Then, in 1997, he teamed with Aid to Artisans, a nonprofit aimed at creating economic opportunity for skilled artisans in developing countries, and traveled to Peru to hire potters who could follow his designs, thus increasing production.
Adler’s first store opened in 1998, in the Soho shopping mecca in Manhattan. He now operates about two dozen shops, as far-flung as London and Bangkok. During Adler’s trip to Peru, he connected not only with potters but also with several talented weavers and decided to branch out into textiles. Other categories followed, leading him to travel the world in search of artisans who could execute his endless supply of ideas. In India, Adler found a man who’s expert at beadwork; he has his limed furniture made in Indonesia, his honey-colored wood pieces in Vietnam.
After a friend asked him to decorate her house, Adler expanded to interior design, taking on hotels as well as private residences — projects for which he remains “agnostic,” using pieces by other designers. “I really try to get to know my clients and then make them seem more glamorous and more eccentric than they think,” he says. “I see myself as a slimming mirror for them.”
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The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.