Helga Horner Inc.

This limited luxury edition has a issue of 200 copies, this set is number 98. Each book has a handcolored frontispiece, with tissue guards, each volumen averages 300 or more pages, ...

Very nice Amcrest Gentlemans Wardrobe Stand/ Silent Butler. This was a piece of furniture that most well dressed men owned. The stand has a well done rush seat, the rush has been str...

Elsa Schiaparelli was born in 1890 in the Corsini palace in Rome. With a father who was the director of the Lincei Library and a professor of Oriental literature, an astronomer uncle and a mother descended from the Medici's, she grew up in a family of aristocrats and intellectuals. She studied philosophy, even though her dream was to become an actress. In 1911 she published a collection of overtly sensual poems, Arethusa. When her parents learned about it, she was sent to a convent in Switzerland, where she left again after going on a hunger strike. 1913 marked the year of her emancipation. She set off for London. this city proved to be the beginning of freedom. She met count Wilhelm Wendt de Kerlor, and they married in 1914. They left London for New York in 1916. In 1922 she moved to Paris. During the day, Elsa worked at an antique dealers. In the evening she frequented the famous restaurant, Le Boef su le Toit, which attracted the Paris smart set. Her circle of artist friends grew. After meeting Paul Poiret, the greatest couturier of the time, she tried on a few designs, but could not afford such pieces. The experience of couture, luxury, quality, design, colors, materials, embroidery and shapes lit a spark in Elsa, that would prove to be one of the turning points of her life. She surrounded herself with the best creative talents: Elsa Triolet, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Schlumberger, Meret Oppenheim, Jean-Michel Frank Jean Dunand, Jean Clement and Raymond Peyent. All influenced her designs. In the 1950's Elsa designed the iconic Schiaparelli sofa...

American Craftsman furniture was built to last a lifetime. Oak, solid, was inexpensive and plentiful and therefore used generously. No plywood! Oak by it's nature is a very hard wood...

Ridgways, at Bedford Works, Shelton, was founded by Edward J. Ridgway, son of the famous Master Potter William Ridgway of Hanley. Well known in the ceramic industry, in the 18th and ...

A very impressive pair of Salad or Side Dish Servers in the style of George Jensen, the famous Danish Silver Smith. The serving pieces are large and practical for a Buffet Service. T...

This is a very good quality Chinese Porcelain Lamp. The painting despicts a Female with a Stag. Wonderful greenery surrounds the main images.The glaze is soft and there is a deep she...

Very rare set of 12 Dinner Plates, with the Earl of Derby Coat of Arms, dated 1830. On Pompadour Ground- The plates are in very good condition. A full ...

The Konigliche Porcelain Manufactur of the 18th Century was finaced by Friedrich II. The fabrication of porcelain was stricktly controlled as far as productivity as well as quality w...

This set of Limoges Dinner Plates are quite rare. The set consists of six different designs, two each in the set. The designs are very reminiscen...

The eighteenth century French chair ranks among the most elegant of furniture forms, admired both for its beauty and for the essential role...

This set of tall candlesticks, or torcheres could have been Church candle pricket torcheres. They hold large 1" diam. or so wax candles, above a wide...