Modest Designs

Solid brass with cruciform base for Hansen Lighting of New York. Beautiful old example of this simple and elegant design. Features two sockets with chain pulls and original diffuser ...

Rare cocktail table from John Vesey's famous 1958 collection. Polished aluminum spokes connecting to a central nut, with original octagonal glass top. Model V-59 in the John Vesey ca...

Glossy gold-brown and white twisting stripes over matte brown glazed base. Made as lamps.

Sexy one-drawer desk with extravagantly grained Macassar ebony surface on mahogany legs with brass stretchers and corner decoration. Has a raised drawer front detail, mirrored-imaged...

Beautiful and beautifully constructed set of solid dark walnut wall-mount shelves. Each shelf rests on a carved butterfly back bracket, with exposed tenon pins, angled side supports,...

Bench or daybed designed by Amir Farr in consultation with Oscar Niemeyer for the famous Strick House, Niemeyer's only completed residential commission in the United States. Due to h...

Cream-lacquered table with gilt metal sabots and gold and silver-leafed eglomisé glass top.

Great early pair of glass rod canister lamps with nickeled brass hardware and glass ball finial. Internal light gives beautiful mood lighting. Original light-switch finishes to metal...

Rustic modern lamp with modernist sgraffito design. Thin profile. An unusual studio piece by the famous French Riviera ceramic house. Signed to underside.

Space Age solid bronze candlesticks for or Metal Arts Co. Rochester, NY.

Handsome reeded drum blanc de chine table lamps with walnut neck and single socket. Unsigned but probably Italian pottery. Lamps are 21" to top of socket.

Graceful solid oak table with various inlaid wood decoration on the tray-form top. Nordiska Kompanient metal tag to underside dates the table to 1926-1927, during Bergsten's tenure a...