Metropolis Modern Furniture

A pair of Regency style giltwood and parcel-ebonized convex dolphin mirrors from the 21st century. Each mirror presents a distressed convex round mirror...

Urns and foliate carvings adorn this attractive piece.

Introducing our Regency Etagere, a timeless piece designed to add a touch of sophistication to any room, its meticulously composed of three tiers to provide both functionality and vi...

George I mahogany games table, 18th century. With a rectangular over hanging top with turret corners, a frieze drawer, cabriole legs ending in pad feet. The back left leg swings out ...

Nineteenth century giltwood convex wall mirror with ball and ribbon decoration.

Exceptional English Regency style convex Girandole mirror made by Friedman Brothers decorative arts. Painstaking model of an 18th century hand-...

A fine gilt and ebony octagonal round glass convex mirror in the manner of Thomas Hope with ebonized star decoration. We are currently working to a 30-36 week lead time.

A truly fabulous, important, rare and grand proportioned Regency giltwood convex mirror. The substantial frame carved with overlapping laurel leaves and berries, supporting to boldly carved acanthus candelabra with original cut-glass drip pans and gilt bronze nozzles. The gilding has aged to a deep rich colour. This fabulous and incredibly grand masterpiece retains its original convex mirror plate. One of the finest period convex mirrors ever made. The creation of convex mirrors became possible with the development of glass blowing. When the glassblower created a small glass bulb, they were filled with a metallic mixture of lead and tin while still hot. Once cooled, the bulbs were cut into smaller pieces and could be used as hand an pocket mirrors. They were used as fashionable pieces of jewelry and were often encased with gold, silver, ivory and tortoiseshell. The Empire circular convex mirror was introduced from France, where they had been made as early as 1756. This style of mirror became so popular under the heading ‘Mirrors’, in Sheraton’s 'Cabinet Dictionary' (1803), that they are the only style mentioned. Convex mirrors were said to “strengthen the colour and take off the coarseness of objects by contracting them”. Convex mirrors produced on a larger scale were both practical and intriguing. While they distort the image that they reflect, they also magnify light...

A lovely Federal card table in fine mahogany with hinged rectangular top pivoting and opening to a square supported by a turned column with tobacco leaf carvings over a round base with carved knurling reminiscent of pineapples. Four "C" shaped legs are reeded and rest on brass lion claw...

A French Louis XVI style demilune console that folds open to a round game table. With a molded edge on a gate leg swing supports and square tapered legs with brass capitals and caps....

19th century carved gilt convex mirror circa 1870. Fine quality circular convex wall mirror, surmounted by a right facing carved eagle wit...

This is an incredibly architectural table with awesome lattice center with two glass levels; Sabots in brass. Is been attributed to Carlo Scarpa, circa 1962. This item is currently...