Newlyn Copper
Antique Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Decorative Bowls
Copper
Antique Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Decorative Bowls
Copper
Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Screens and Room Dividers
Copper
Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
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Brass, Copper, Iron
Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Table Lamps
Copper, Brass
Antique Late 19th Century English Bookcases
Copper
Antique 19th Century Beds and Bed Frames
Wood, Paint
Antique 1890s Great Britain (UK) Arts and Crafts Fireplace Tools and Chi...
Copper
Antique Early 19th Century French Decorative Baskets
Copper
Antique 1860s European Country Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Copper
Early 20th Century Great Britain (UK) Arts and Crafts Fireplace Tools an...
Copper, Iron
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Pottery
1980s Modern Nude Prints
Etching
Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Copper, Iron
Antique 19th Century British Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Copper
Antique Late 19th Century Arts and Crafts Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Copper
Vintage 1940s Urns
Copper
Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Picture Frames
Paper
Antique 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Boxes
Copper, Enamel
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Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Decorative Boxes
Copper
Antique Early 1900s Great Britain (UK) Wall Mirrors
Copper
Antique Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts More Dining and Entert...
Copper
Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Tea Caddies
Copper
Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Vases and Vessels
Copper
Antique Late 19th Century Welsh Art Nouveau Fireplace Tools and Chimney ...
Copper, Wrought Iron
Antique 19th Century English Wall Mirrors
Copper
Antique Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Serving Pieces
Copper
Antique Early 1900s British Art Nouveau More Folk Art
Copper
Early 20th Century British Arts and Crafts Vases
Copper
Early 20th Century English Umbrella Stands
Antique Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Vases
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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