Large Japanese Woven Bamboo Morikago Basket by Maeda Chikubosai I
By Maeda Chikubosai
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large and impressive Japanese basket in the form of a morikago by Maeda Chikubosai I (1872-1950) circa first half of the 20th century. Chikubosai I was from the Kansai Region and a...
Copper
Japanese Woven Bamboo Brazier by Maeda Chikubosai I
By Maeda Chikubosai
Located in Atlanta, GA
An important piece of bamboo basketry art by Maeda Chikubosai I (1872-1950), circa 1920s-1930s. The body of the bamboo brazier was made with smoked bamboo (susudake) and rattan and w...
Copper
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Flower Basket cChandelier Made of Brass and Copper, France 1920s
Located in Hannover, DE
This beautiful chandelier was lovingly crafted by artists in the 1920s and 1930s. The basket was lovingly crafted by hand from twisted metal wire. Each flower is lovingly handcrafted...
Brass, Copper
Woven Copper Basket Form Table Lamp
By Maitland Smith
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Glamorous Hollywood Regency style woven metal basket form table lamp by Maitland-Smith, circa 1970s.
Brass, Copper, Metal, Metallic Thread
French Copper Flower Decorative Basket, 19th Century
Located in Woodbridge, CT
French, copper large heavy quality, seamed flower basket with woven copper wire handle, circa 1880.
Copper
Woven Copper Bowl
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An unusual and finely rendered footed and subtly undulating bowl crafted entirely of woven copper.
Pair Japanese Woven Copper & Shakudo Basket Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair Japanese Copper Shakudo lamps in red woven copper with brass ribbon and mixed metal panels depicting floral and figural fisherman motifs. Meiji Period (Late 19th c.) rewired ...
Brass, Copper
Woven Basket By Ruth Asawa
Located in Pawtucket, RI
Rare and early Ruth Asawa patinated copper woven basket. Made during her time at Black Mountain College where she studied under Josef Albers and Buckminster Fuller.
Large Round Signed Nantucket Lightship Basket by Folger
By Rowland Folger
Located in Nantucket, MA
10 ½” Open round Nantucket lightship basket with carved wooden oak ears with oak staves, handle and rim. The bottom is turned out of Pine and the interior is markedin ink with the or...
Copper
Meiji Period Japanese Woven Copper and Lacquer Basket
Located in New York, NY
Amazing! An ingeniously woven metal basket. The whole of various woven patterns in brown and black, the lid and base divided by two brass bands, the top with an oval engraved panel, ...
Copper
Maitland Smith Console Table
By Maitland Smith
Located in Naples, FL
Maitland Smith console table. Verdigris; Copper strips woven in a basket weave with beveled glass insert.
Metal, Copper
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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