Frisman Vintage Building and Garden Elements

50s Eichler Home Cold War Atomic Scare Mid Century Modern Brass Door Knocker Rare Rare, Vintage, Fun, 1950s, Model Home, Original, Cold War, Atomic Era "Live Better Electrically" like Ronald Reagan, Solid Brass, Mid Century Modern Door Knocker. This was a big campaign featuring actor Ronald Reagan. This door knocker told your neighbors you lived in a modern, All-American, all electric dream house of the future! This front door hardware...

Vintage Solid Brass World Peace Dove Bird Door Knocker Very rare, vintage solid brass World Peace door knocker. A dove sits atop a globe of the world The piece was made around t...

A great set of curved arm chairs from the 1950's. For the patio or garden, made of aluminum with original blue upholstery. Modernist design and comfortable to use.

Handsome, hand wrought, industrial 19th Century Dutch Copper and Brass Coal Scuttle referred to as. "5KAN. This scuttle was used to carry coal or water. It has been elegantly repurp...

Vintage Mid Century Modern Brutalist Jerusalem Celtic Irish Cross Door Knocker Vintage 60s Modernist Brass Jerusalem Celtic Irish Cross Door Knocker Ci...

Large, Focal, Mid Century Modern, Solid Brass, Sculptural Door Knocker Elegant lines. Undulating Wavy Center Knocker. . Clean minimalist piece of door jewelry that would enhance th...

Mid Century Modern Brutalist Artisan Hammered Brass Door Knocker One of a Kind Fantastic Artisan Hand Made, Hammered Brass Modernist, One-of-a-Kind, Focal Door Knocker. At 5" Lon...

A pair of powder coated aluminum chaises by Tropitone with adjustable backs, including Gold Crest cushions.

A pair of unusual, modernist andirons by Wah Chang, signed. Made ca '1950 the bases are stamped Van Nuys, California. A note about the designer. " Wah Ming Chang (August 2, 1917 – December 22, 2003) was an American designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adoptive father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. The Chang family moved from Honolulu, Hawaii to San Francisco, California and about 1920 opened the Ho-Ho Tea Room on Sutter Street, which became a favorite venue for the city's Bohemian artists. Wah-Ming's mother, Fai Sue Chang, was a graduate of Berkeley's California School of Arts and Crafts (today's California College of the Arts), where she specialized in fashion design and etching. After she died in 1927, her husband persuaded Wah Ming Chang's art teacher and family friends, the highly respected printmaker, puppeteer, and theatre designer, James Blanding Sloan and his wife Mildred Taylor, to become his son's legal guardians. Sloan exhibited Wah Ming's etchings and watercolors in public exhibitions as early as 1925 to favorable reviews in the San Francisco Bay Area and later in the largest art colony on the Pacific Coast, Carmel-by-the-Sea. The child became part of Sloan's family, traveled in 1926 to Taos, New Mexico, for the on-site study of American Indian culture, and in 1928 displayed his block prints in joint exhibitions with Sloan at the prestigious Philadelphia Print Club and in Pasadena, California. He became a valued assistant in several of Sloan's marionette theatres as well as in productions for the Hollywood Bowl Ballet and the "Cavalcade of Texas." In the mid-1940s Chang formed a joint studio business with Sloan, The East-West Film Company, and produced such memorable films as Pick a Bale of Cotton (an interview and performance with the legendary blues and folk singer Lead Belly in 1944) and the highly controversial anti-war short (1946–47), The Way of Peace, created in part with elaborate miniature sets and puppets in stop...

A modernist set of firetools. Leather wrapped handles, ca' 1950's. Beautifully made, nice patina.

A pair of unusual andirons-Art Deco stylized skyscraper look. Polished brass, heavy and well made.

A collection of five Brown Jordan vintage outdoor pieces. Chaise (adjustable back), 2 stools and an armchair with ottoman. Ottomans measure 21.5 x 21.5 ...

A pair of outstanding andirons in Hollywood regency-1970's Italian style. Large and impressive in person, from a mansion in Richmond, VA.

A pair of heavy (over 100 lbs each) cast concrete stools, signed Robinson, Florida, 1974. Unusual biomorphic design.

A pair (not identical match but from the same maker) peat or plate buckets. Mahogany and brass, outstanding construction, heavy and well made, with beautiful brass details. Made in E...

An unusual and hard to find John Follis and Rex Goode planter by Architectural Pottery circa 1970s. This is a yellow-ochre colored gla...

A pair of Classic midcentury textured glaze planters by Gainey Pottery, California, circa 1960s. These have no hole on the bottom.

A pair of unusual architectural lamps, circa 1980s. Heavy and well made, travertine bases, on a dimmer providing uplight. These lamps could also be room dividers, etc...

A charming Arthur Umanoff patio set-dining table with four armchairs. Freshly powdercoated and seats reupholstered. Table measures 30" H, 42" D.

A very rare and unusual, vintage 1930's modernist paleta (little shovel/fire tool) in copper, aluminum, by Osvaldo Borsani.

Rare stackable planters by Willy Guhl for Eternit. Each one stamped on the bottom. Three yellow and three grey or concrete available. Planters have ...

A pair of enormous Gainey Pottery, Laverne California, ceramic planters. Shiny purple glaze. Measures 31.5" diameter.

Spectacular Gainey Pottery ceramic planter measuring 30.25" diameter, 12" H. Rich, deep red color, high gloss glaze. Vintage, never used stock.

A pair of stylized, sea-horse andirons by Oscar Bach.

A pair of polished, heavy brass, scroll shaped andirons.

An interesting pair of French modernist andirons, ca' 1930's, in nickel. Satin finish.

A pair of hand polished, decorative brass, scroll andirons. Heavy and very well made, thick gage.

A great 1950's modernist set of firetools, brass handles, original mounting bracket.

A pair of impressive andirons with knock handles. Nickeled wrought iron-very heavy.