About Acanthus Home
Acanthus Home researches, restores, documents, and presents furniture of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Every object is examined in hand before it is offered, with its construction, condition, restoration, and historical context recorded to a consistent standard. Our work begins with evidence. We distinguish observation from inference and identify makers and origins only where the object supports them. Conservation is undertaken with restraint, preserving wear that records an object's use. Every restoration is disclosed plainly and may range from conservation of the...Read More
Acanthus Home
Established in 20241stDibs seller since 2025
Featured Pieces
Vintage Neoclassical Revival Writing Desk, Hardwood, Kidney-Shaped w/ Marquetry
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Vintage Neoclassical Revival writing desk built on the kidney-shaped plan, a compact personal writing surface with a continuous curved top and softened edge.
The top is set with a ma...
Category
Mid-20th Century Neoclassical Revival Side Tables
Materials
Wood
Vintage Chippendale Revival Secretary, Glazed Bookcase Top, Refinished Black
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
A vintage Chippendale Revival secretary in black lacquer, circa 1930–1950, built in two parts: a glazed hutch crowned by a swan-neck pediment with a turned urn-and-flame finial, over...
Category
Early 20th Century Chippendale Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Vintage Jacobean Revival China Cabinet, Fret-Cut Glazed Door, Hardwood
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
The Corvane is a vintage Jacobean Revival china cabinet, a glazed display case raised on a turned-leg stretcher base. The central door is faced with a pierced, fret-cut wood overlay ...
Category
Early 20th Century Jacobean Cabinets
Materials
Brass
Moorish Folding Chairs, Hardwood, Stepped Crest, X-Frame Pair
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Vintage Moorish folding chairs, an X-frame pair that closes nearly flat along a central pivot. The crest rises to a stepped, crenellated profile above a recessed horseshoe arch, and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Side Chairs
Materials
Wood
Vintage Carved Cabinet, Painted Hardwood, Breccia Stone Top (The Stratelle)
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
This vintage cabinet is a low, two-door case piece with a fitted breccia stone top over a painted, carved façade. The front is a fixed three-part composition: two doors, each with a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Colonial Sideboards
Materials
Stone
Vintage Jacobean Revival Center Table in Oak, Parquetry Top, Barley-Twist Legs
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
This is a vintage Jacobean Revival center table, round and two-tiered, built on four barley-twist legs that meet a shaped lower shelf with concave sides. The top is laid as a herring...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Jacobean Side Tables
Materials
Wood
Vintage Chippendale Revival Secretary, Glazed Bookcase Top, Refinished Black
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
A vintage Chippendale Revival secretary in two parts. A glazed bookcase top, crowned by a swan-neck pediment with a turned urn-and-flame finial, sits over a serpentine fall-front des...
Category
Early 20th Century Chippendale Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Set of Six Antique Edwardian Dining Chairs in Blue, Restored
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
A set of six antique Edwardian dining chairs, early twentieth century, restored by Acanthus Home and sold together. The backs carry the identity of the set: four chairs have a lyre-f...
Category
Early 20th Century Edwardian Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Wood, Upholstery
Antique Eastlake Accent Chair, Glant Upholstery, 1885–1895 (The Spindle Crest)
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Late 19th-century Eastlake side chair with carved spindle crest rail, newly upholstered in Glant. An antique chair in the American Aesthetic Movement reform style, it is built on a r...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Eastlake Side Chairs
Materials
Wood, Upholstery
Antique Renaissance Revival Side Chair, Embossed Leather Back, Hardwood
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
An antique Renaissance Revival side chair in the French Henri II tradition, with a turned and carved hardwood frame. A gentle arched crest rises to scrolled ears above an open galle...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Renaissance Revival Side Chairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
Antique Victorian Étagère in Hardwood, Divided Folio Compartment, Casters
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
An antique Victorian étagère, the open tiered stand also called a whatnot, rising through graduated serpentine shelves on turned baluster uprights to a galleried top, circa 1870–1900...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Victorian Shelves
Materials
Brass
Jacobean Revival Secretary Desk in Tiger Oak Imperial of Grand Rapids, c. 1920s
Located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
This Jacobean Revival secretary desk is a fall-front writing bureau in quarter-sawn oak, the cut that gives the rippling "tiger" fleck across its front and drawers. The slope lowers ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Jacobean Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
