20th Century Specialists

Cave shelf table by kar Dimensions: W 100 x D 38 x H 170 cm Materials: FRP Kar, is the root of Sanskrit Karma, meaning karmic repetition. We seek the cause and effect in aesthetics...

"Clarita" Art Glass Sculpture, circa 1984, unsigned In the style of Timo Sarpaneva light scratches on the top and bottom

Crystal Art Glass Sculptural Vessel / Dish / Bowl - vintage Nice Vintage Condition 5.5 x 3.5 inches apx Measurements are approximate. Please be aware that the color on your monitor ...

Handmade bent iron sculpture of an antique rag top car. Doors and hood open. Wheels move.

Post Modern Metal Sculpture by Irving George Lehman ,Welded metal and paint depicting mans head,  Irving Lehman. Born in Kiev, Irving Lehman ...

Stunning, modernist brass / bronze candlesticks designed by Pierre Forssell for Skultuna, Sweden. Stamped with makers mark.

Pair of abstract wall sculptures by Japanese artist Takeshi Kawashima in solid red and orange resin. These were purchased from a forme...

Amazing, modern, Italian Venetian, pair of table lamps, blown Murano glass, gold 24-karat black, in a very unique design, mixing a baroque style in the main body of the table lamps, ...

Unusual turn of the century industrial brass small animal cage with wheel. Possibly made by Pierce Arrow. Buffalo NY. Superior quality and construction. Sm...

Antique hand carved architectural panel from Toraja. This carving symbolizes the protection of the home. Originally used as an exterior panel. Grea...

Vintage Murano glass decorative artwork, attributed to maestro Donà, 1980s. This masterpiece of Murano glass art stands out for its delightful shapes, colors, and delicacy. The whole sculpture surface is colored with white milk, and it is decorated only by 3 small Greek spirals...

Gorgeous Italian Venetian, Sculpture, Blown Murano Glass, Red Blu and transparent, Signed Romano Donà, 1990s. This fantastic modern sculpture is entirely handcrafted in blow Murano, ...

Italian vase in blown Murano glass antiqued clear color attributed to Salviati, Venice. This is an extraordinary vase, a very important artistic creation handcrafted attributed to the Italian artist Salviati, in the Venetian island of Murano, Italy. The main body color, as well as the several reliefs that adorn this artwork, are made with antiqued transparent art of the blown Murano glass. A valuable, remarkable and decorative piece with an antique taste...

Iced Vase in coral color with a gold nuances in blown Murano Glass 1990s Italy This is a timeless design vase in Murano glass, this beauty is entirely handcra...

Refined Furkel Sculpture in sunken Multicolor Finishes in Murano Glass, Italy. This incredible Italian Venetian sculpture is truly unique, a...

Design Murano Glass Blue Sphere by Alberto Donà, Italy, 1980s. This unique artwork is simply outstanding. A vintage masterpiece by the renowned It...

Italian Murano Glass Artistic Sculpture Attributed to Tagliapietra, 1990s. This is an amazing sculpture realized with transparent Murano glass and ...

Murano glass Handkerchief "Fazzoletto", red and transparent, Venini, 1960s. This Handkerchief is a timeless piece of Murano glass design. Attributed to Venini, it was entirely handc...

Handcrafted Brutalist bud vase or sculpture, 1960s, brass, stee. Plastic test tube, signed R. Bitterman.

Antique hand carved architectural panel from Toraja. This carving symbolizes the protection of the home. Originally used as an exterior panel. Great art piece. This antique panel ...

An exquisitely carved compartmental freeform bowl by Emil Milan (1922-1985), executed in richly grained walnut. Rich patina throughout. Signed to the underside, "By Emilan, Walnut". ...

In an exclusive collaboration, each hand-studded piece by artist the bms. was transformed from a provincial 19th century artifact into a one-of-a-kind work of art. Embellishing with silver and gold thumbtacks, the bms. adds a contemporary twist to our storied objects, animating each surface with bold and provocative designs. This kintsugi rest was originally a Qing-dynasty low stool, used by a Shoemaker while he assembled pairs of shoes. Marked by the artist's golden touch, the simple stool has been gilded with a pattern inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi, wherein damaged ceramics...

lconic Orgreen titanium frame sunglasses. Vintage new old stock eyewear, handmade in Italy, early 1990s vintage featuring blue anodized titanium frame,...

Aharon Bezalel Cast Bronze, modernist, brutalist. c 1969, Wonderful form and artistry.

Modernist stabile sculpture by Graham Sears.

Colorful Murano glass vase by Romano Donà Venice 1980s. This artistic rare vase stands out for its energetic colors, that were obtained usi...

Brutalist Folk Art sculpture "The Conference" by Abbott Pattison, great sculpture made up of welded metal, screws, nuts etc, depicting abstract figures. Mounted on metal base with ba...

Artistic milk-white and iridescent vase with Murano glass and paste, by Romano Donà, Italy, 1990s. This artistic vase, entirely made with blown Murano glass in the 1990s, has a uniq...

Decorative Murano ice glass sculpture, attributed to Tagliapietra, 1980s, Italy. This is an outstanding Italian artwork, attributed to the famous Vene...

Modernist abstract sculpture, Brutalist guitar by John Metzen. Wonderful use of color, texture and space, twisted steel and blue coated wire.

Very Unique, and Elegant, Italian Venetian, Flame Table Lamp, blown Murano Glass, yellow orange black in pasta, composed by a black basement with a white line finishes, followed by ...

A Piero Fornasetti painted metal umbrella stand of a musical theme with painted sheet music and musical instruments. Original label on the reverse. Italy, circa 1980s.

Bauden Khoreay's large frontally carved stone sculpture of a stylized owl. The sculpture is in the manner of Picasso's early opium influenced African based cubist motifs. Professi...

Set of two clear art glass orb sculptures by John Bingham, circa 1980. Signed (engraved) "John Bingham" the base of the rims. Dimensions listed are for the larger of the two. S...

The giraluna is a spectral plant entity from Leo Lionni's Classic alternate universe  textbook Parallel Botany.  About the Sculpture: The Giraluna This elusive and capricious plant is the Dream Queen of parallel botany. Hydendorp, quite rightly, does not hesitate to define it as the "most parallel of plants, most plantlike of the parallels," and in so doing he stresses not so much its physiognomic oddnesses as the disconcerting normality of its shape. "If we were in the jungle," he writes, "and we found one blocking our way, we would not for an instant hesitate to hack it down with our machetes."1 But it will not be our good fortune to encounter it. If in reconstructions the Giraluna displays considerable plantness of form and an exact and convincing solidity, in its natural environment it can be perceived only as a nebulous interplay of glimmerings and empty spaces which alternate in the darkness and vaguely suggest where its outlines might be. (pl. XXIV) Its nocturnal presence, in fact, is manifested almost entirely in terms of the equivocal O'-factor of the moonbeams, which was discovered and measured a few years ago by Dennis Dobkin of the Point Paradise Observatory. This factor changes the light-shade ratio which normally defines volumes into a subtle interplay of lucencies and opacities, so that our perceptions, our basic sensorial habits conditioned by thousands of years of daytime life in the "solar key," would need complete readjustment and indeed reversal in order to come to terms with it. Daylight isolates objects, bestowing a noisy Meaning on all the odds and ends in the world. But night takes everything away except the very soul of things: a black light, a transparent darkness, a secret we cannot grasp. During the long night of the Erocene era man caught a glimpse of the Giraluna rising mysteriously in its barren landscape. Presolar man imagined himself the child of the Moon. In her lap he had known the comfort of the life, silent torpor of the night, and by her light he had seen silver pearls lie weightlessly upon the coronas of the first great flowers. But he left us only a few enigmatic signs of all this: the Feisenburg cave, the petrified bones in the Ahmenstadt tumulus, the Boergen Cup. Paradoxically enough, all that we do in fact know of his presence in that landscape comes to us from our study of his nocturnal vegetation, Around the middle of the Erocene era, when the flowers of night were fading away in the light of a new dawn, man saw that outlines and colors were slowly hardening. Thus he discovered the stone-hard world of day, and learned to be the child of both Sun and Moon, of Amnes and Ra, of Disarm and Karak, of Nemsa and Taor. The "crawling stones" of Yorkshire, the stele of Tapur, the graffiti of Klagenstadt, these have preserved for us the nearly obliterated images of the two divinities who from the center of their temples drew the design of the universe. But the Sun was not long in attaining absolute power over everything in the world. "O Ra, o Amno Ra our benefactor, glowing and flaming! Gods and men bow down before you, for you are their creator and their only Lord." Such was the prayer of Amresh, High Priest of Egypt. And a new vegetation, outspoken and exuberant, appeared on the earth, and made the bright leaves dance in the morning breeze. Night soon became no more than a dark corridor joining one day to another, a place of visions and memories, a storehouse of words and images. It became a secret refuge where the vanished flowers could once more flaunt their coronas to the Moon. And thousands of years later the black flowers of that distant night-Giraluna, Lunaspora, Solea argentea-were born from seeds hidden deep in a soil rich with legends and stories. If our knowledge of the Giraluna is today reasonably complete and detailed this is due to the industry and scholarship of Professor Johannes Hydendorp of the University of Honingen, who has collected and collated all known facts and kept his records abreast of the latest developments. Our historical and geographical information comes from the most varied sources: legends and folk tales handed down from generation to generation, accounts given by explorers, anthropologists, and paleontologists, and of course the more recent testimony of botanists such as Heinz Hornemann and Pierre Maessens. Source: Sivatherium. narod .edu About Sculpture: Leo Lionni is best known today for his children's books: Little Blue and Little Yellow; Frederick—the one about the mouse who gathers poems while his family is harvesting seeds for the winter—Swimmy the Fish. Of course the children don't remember his name, but to parents and grandparents, the ones who actually do the reading, he is something of a celebrity. Most people don't realize that Lionni is also one of the 20th-century's most influential graphic designers. Within that field, he is a legend. In fact, he didn't start doing children's books until he had left the world of advertising, teaching, and design to allow more time for contemplation and for art. Little Blue and Little Yellow (1959) began as an improvised entertainment for bored grandchildren. What can you do with a few scraps of colored paper and a lot of imagination ? Make the first best-selling children's book illustrated with abstract art. Before that his work as design director for Olivetti Corporation of America and the art director of Fortune magazine, the co-founder of the Aspen...

Mid-Century Modern handmade abstract geometric table sculpture made out of tubular Brass pieces welded together and placed on a square brown Marble Base. The marble base is covered ...

Tall Brutalist studio sculpture by John De La Rosa. Signed. The last image shows a similar sculpture in an interior setting, for inspiration.

This mid century wood sculpture by Italian artist Flaviano Laghi dates from approximately 1980 is mounted on a dark wood base and features a...

Powerful caved marble sculpture signed and dated Sanguino 1964. The rouge and white marble of a crouching woman 17 inches tall, 9.5 inches wide, 16 inches long.

Early 20th c. cast iron Elephant form doorstop by Bradley & Hubbard, original painted surface, back is marked 'B&H' and '7799', 10 3/4" hig...

Beautiful vintage necklace made of bronze and beads ( unknown texture of beads).

William Umbreit was born in East Orange, New Jersey, in 1935. After serving in the United States Army from 1954-56, he was honorably discharged in 1962. Umbreit received a BSA from N...

Glazed terra cotta abstract modern sculpture by Tomiya Matsuda. Brown, green and cinnabar glaze over a layered terra cotta curved and footed form ...

Tall Brutalist studio sculpture by John De La Rosa. Signed. The last image shows a similar sculpture in an interior setting, for inspiration.

A collection made of traditional travertine and walnut - numerically controlled - glazed ceramic hand-glazed ceramic according to ancient Vietri traditions; two companies in the Nea...

A collection of vases in Leccese Stone and etched iron that comes from the theme of the "discovery"; recovered from a distant past, they are revised in a contemporary way, stylized, ...

A collection of vases in Leccese Stone and etched iron that comes from the theme of the "discovery"; recovered from a distant past, they are revised in a contemporary way, stylized, ...

A collection made of traditional travertine and walnut - numerically controlled  - glazed ceramic hand-glazed ceramic according to ancient Vietri traditions; two companies in the Ne...

Made to Order, the console is made of fiber-glass reinforced concrete with wood details, you have a choice of Off-White, Gray, and Charcoal colors, this Console brings elegance, simp...

Lathlela in Setswana means ‘to throw’. Here Tshikare designed a tree, but with the focus on the leaves to tell the story of how “the pre-rain wind blows the leaves off and carries th...

Ceramic screen/room divider sculptures by Natasha Dakhli, 2021 _______ Dimensions: H 185 cm x L 140cm _______ Modular rotating sculptures made of enamel...

"Peo e Atang" is a celebration by artist Atang Tshikare in honor of his firstborn son Peo. The word Peo means seed or beginning and Atang means to grow or multiply. Together they mea...

Shiv Singh (1938-2015) Sculpture abstraite - 1975 Un seul fil de fer enroulés, monté sur une base carrée en bois noir. / Rolled up onepolishe...

A collection made of hand-hammered and numerically controlled white Carrara marble meets the more artisan terracotta - the hand-pulled brick - according to the most ancient tradition...

Citadelle sculpture by Bertrand Créac'h, 1993 _______ Sculpture in Carrara marble, unique piece signed. _______ Dimensions: H 55 x 25 x 15 cm _______ Bertrand Créac'h is a french sculptor. He studied at l’Ecole Boulle in Paris and met the artists Étienne Martin...

Slatted Ash Stools were designed in collaboration with Alex Sowinski (of BadBadNotGood) in 2019. This set was conceived to accompany a live performance of BadBadNotGood at Dylan Moor...

"It feels like the branches connect us all to each other, entangling us in our complexities. They hold us up and anchor us down, like a melting pot that has stopped boiling half way ...

Refuges I & II sculpture by Bertrand Créac'h, 1996 Material: Burnished Iroko wood Dimensions: (1) H 70 cm / (2) H 57 cm Year: 1996 One-of-a-kind pieces, signed Throughout his career Créac’h have created a body of architectural wooden sculptures evoking his exploration and memories of infinite paths. These elevated geometric work carved into the thickness of the material are symbolic of a spiritual mind. Iroko is a large tropical western African tree...