Modest Designs Furniture
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Petite Chip-Carved Cocktail Table, Attrib. Aldo Tura
By Aldo Tura
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Unusual and beautifully carved and constructed coffee table. The trestle base is intricately channel and chip carved, mounted with upward curving glass top secured by large brass cap...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass
Eric Hoglund Engraved Glass Bowl
By Erik Höglund, Kosta Boda
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rarely seen early Surrealist/Expressionist Erik Hoglund glass bowl depicting beastly dogs with over-emphasized musculature and dimensionality. Diamond etched "'Boda H 290/1153' to base.
Category
Vintage 1950s Swedish Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Bernard Saby, "VI 73", 1973
By Bernard Saby
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Surrealist landscape abstract, oil on paper laid on stretched linen, signed "Saby" lower right, titled and dated lower left, pen inscribed "Galerie du Dragon" on stretcher, chrome sl...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Pair Paul M. Jones End Tables
By Paul M. Jones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
C. 1970s, chic architectural side tables in chromed steel with thick plate glass top. From the Estate of Herbert Kasper.
Category
Vintage 1970s American Minimalist End Tables
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Pol Chambost Blue Craqueleur Lamp with Original Shade; Signed
By Pol Chambost
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Deep blue crackle glaze lamp with small fu dog medallion decoration. Original shade has matching blue trim. Ceramic vase was originally made as a lamp base. Signed to underside "Pol ...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
1970s Steel and Bronze Canopy Bed
By Don Cameron
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Fabulous four-poster queen bed frame in steel with bronze elements. From a Bergen County, New Jersey estate decorated over multiple decades by Tommi Parzinger, this bed was purported...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Beds and Bed Frames
Materials
Steel
Enzo Mari Lucite Sculpture
By Enzo Mari
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Lucite cube with internal red sphere.
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Lucite
Tommi Parzinger Originals Lacquered Chest
By Tommi Parzinger
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Beautiful lacquered Tommi Parzinger Originals chest, with sectioned felt-lined silverware drawer and two interior shelves.
Category
Vintage 1940s American Cabinets
Materials
Lacquer
Vintage Poul Kjaerholm Nesting Tables
By Poul Kjærholm
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Poul Kjaerholm PK 71 nesting tables, set of three, for E. Kold Christensen, Denmark, circa 1957, matte chrome-plated steel, with white acrylic tops, me...
Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables
Materials
Acrylic
Harvey Probber Architectural Brass Serving Table
By Harvey Probber
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chic and rare brass table with glass top. Raised on casters and with elegant curved handles, this would make a stirking bar or serving table, but can also double as a coffee table. T...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Materials
Brass
Wonderful Early 20th Century Industrial Desk Lamp by OC White
By O.C. White
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cobalt blue enameled shade, brass arm and base, and cast iron center arm. Really great combination of materials and style. The pieces can be recombined to make a wall sconce or clamp...
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Victor Vasarely Op-Art Screenprint, Signed
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Great example of Vasarely's 'Gestalt" series optical illusion print technique. Color-shaded grids give the appearance of nested 3D cubes; but the dimensionality of each cube breaks d...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Prints
Materials
Paper
Tommi Parzinger Style Chrome and Glass Console
By Tommi Parzinger
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elegant streamlined console table with polished chrome square tube metal frame and thick green plate glass top. High quality construction with polished welds, and tapering legs joined by stretcher set with diamond shaped connectors.
Attributed to Tommi Parzinger. From the estate of Alan Moss.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Paul Colin Art Deco Pastel Drawing
By Paul Colin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wonderful stylized Art Deco study of cabaret dancer by legendary French artist Paul Colin. Drawing is signed, dated and stamped with Colin's seal. Framed and matted in conservation q...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper
John Vesey Occasional Table
By John Vesey
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chromed steel and glass two-tier table with bronze finials and sculptural shaped feet.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Side Tables
Materials
Chrome
John Vesey Coffee Table
By John Vesey
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Rare John Vesey Coffee Table
By John Vesey
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Brass-mounted polished aluminum with 1/2” glass top. Model v-41 from Vesey’s first collection of 1958.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
Chic Brutulist Dining/Center Table by Max Papiri
By Max Papiri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Fantastic cast aluminum dining table base in a hard organic form, with 56" D glass top. From the atelier of Mac Papiri, an important but som...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Dining Room Tables
Materials
Aluminum
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Custom Brass Cocktail for Kandell Residence
By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Unique, one-of-a-kind, solid cast brass table with original 1” thick green glass top, circa 1953. The smallest of the three faux bois bamboo-form low tables we have available, all from the grand living room of the Kandell Penthouse apartment at the original Ritz Carlton on Park Ave. South. This 1953 Robsjohn-Gibbings commission by the buildings owners, for their personal residence, included custom interiors with bespoke furniture designs for all rooms. Interior still photos...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Nickeled Brass and Lucite Barcart by Treitel Gratz
By Treitel Gratz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Super high-quality nickeled flatbar brass bar cart, on chrome casters, with Lucite handles. Bottom shelf functions as a serving tray. Made by legendary metal shop, Treitel Gratz, kno...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Materials
Brass
Jean Mayodon Vase
By Jean-Leon Mayodon
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stunning hand-painted vase depicting abstracted torsos and animals on ghostly wooded landscape. Celedon on cobalt glazes with gold-leaf detail. Artists cipher to underside.
Category
Vintage 1930s French Vases
Materials
Gold Leaf
Rare Tony Duquette Studio Vitrine
By Tony Duquette
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wonderful orange lacquered vitrine with glass doors and shelves mirrored back, top and middle display lights, and brass hardware. Four adjustable glass shelves originally acquired th...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Carl Harry Stalhane Studio Pottery Vase
By Carl-Harry Stålhane
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Fantastic modernist saucer shape vase in matte grey glaze. Hand-thrown one of a kind vase by master potter Carl Harry Stalhane, head designer for Rorstrand pottery. Signed and dated ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Swedish Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Vladimir Kagan Carved Walnut Trisymmetric Occasional Table
By Vladimir Kagan, Kagan-Dreyfuss, Inc.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Iconic atomic design by Kagan-Dreyfuss. Elegantly articulated and proportioned table with glass top. Works as either a cocktail or an occasional table.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Walnut
Rare Paul Kiss Wrought Iron Mirror Signed
By Paul Kiss
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Hand chased and hammered wall mirror with intricate chain and tassel magnificently formed in iron. Paul Kiss was a student of Edgar Brandt and the only Art Deco metal worker to rival...
Category
Vintage 1920s French Wall Mirrors
Materials
Wrought Iron
Rare Pair of Salvador Dali Tile Side Tables
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Brooklyn, NY
French art collector Maurice Duchin commissioned Dali to design six decorative tiles in 1953. 800 hand-painted sets were produced, all hand signed by Dali. Of these, 100 sets were reserved to be sold as table-tops on painted iron frames. We have a pair of tables which each hold a complete set of...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Side Tables
Materials
Ceramic
Arthur Court Aluminum Coffee Table
By Arthur Court
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cast aluminum faux bois frame with textured linen enamel finish and original 1" reverse bevel glass.
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Paul McCobb Brass X-Stretcher Stool
By Paul McCobb
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Classic McCobb design in all-original condition.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Stools
Materials
Brass
Giancarlo Piretti Pluvium Umbrella Stand
By Anonima Castelli, Giancarlo Piretti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pluvium umbrella stand by Giancarlo Piretti for Anonima Castelli, circa 1970. Hinged plastic rings on the stand open individually to accommodate...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Umbrella Stands
Materials
Plastic
Pair of French Brushed Aluminum Tables
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chic side tables of curved aluminum petals joined with large bronze hardware and plate glass top.
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Massive Joel Edwards Studio Vessel
By Joel Edwards
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Enormous 21.75" three-necked ceramic pottery vessel with applique relief assemblage on four sides, by important Southern California ceramicist.. Beautiful mottled earth-tone glaze. O...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Carlo Scarpa Vanity Mirror for Venini Signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Red filigree glass frame with bronze mounts and original mirror. Stamped "Venini Murano" and "Made in Italy" on the backplate. This mirror is included in ...
Category
Vintage 1930s Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Materials
Art Glass
Lucite Pedestal Table by Romeo Rega
By Romeo Gega
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Center or dining table composed of a chic mix of polished brass, chromed steel and 8” D solid Lucite, with a 1” thick plate glass top, circa 1970.
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Dining Room Tables
Materials
Lucite
Bernard Saby, Abstract Composition, circa 1965
By Bernard Saby
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bernard Saby (French, 1925-1975), oil on canvas, partial signature visible under frame lower left, Cadres Lutece, Paris gallery label verso, custom aluminium frame, 23" H x 28.5" W (...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Adries Dirk Copier Unica Vase for Leerdam Glassworks
By A. D. Copier
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large, highly decorated footed vase is a unique object from the Netherlands most celebrated glass designer. This is considered to be copier's high period for design, and also his lowest for output. It is estimated that the Leerdam factories were producing under 100 Unica vase...
Category
Vintage 1940s Dutch Vases
Materials
Glass
Sterling Demitasse Coffee Service by Asprey
By Asprey International Limited
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chic modern travel coffee service with cup and creamer. Arms hold the set together and rotates so the pieces stay in place as you pour. Cane-wrapped handle. Fully hallmarked Asprey a...
Category
Vintage 1950s British Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Large A.D. Copier Unica Charger/Footed Bowl
By A. D. Copier
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Nice example of Copier's expertise in controlled bubble decoration. Cobalt blue bubble inclusions create a lunar-like terrain throughout this shallow bowl on applied pedestal base. Examples from the Unica series are all one-of-a-kind hand blown by Copier himself, and are considered the highest level of glass arts that the Netherlands produced, matching the skill of the best Venetian studios. Signed to the underside "AD Copier Unica...
Category
Vintage 1940s Dutch Platters and Serveware
Materials
Glass
Rare Vicke Lindstrand Vase for Orrefors
By Vicke Lindstrand
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large 13" vase with stylized image of a rider dismounting from his horse. This is an early and influencial modernist design from Lindstrand, included in the 1990 museum retrospective...
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Wirkkala Omena Necklace
By Tapio Wirkkala
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Beautiful silver Apple pendant on silver chain. Hallmarked and dated on reverse.
Category
Vintage 1970s Finnish Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Silver
Teak and Leather Stool by Bender-Madsen and Larsen
By Aksel Bender Madsen, Willy Beck, Ejner Larsen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Handsome sidechair-height stool built by master cabinetmaker Willy Beck. Original leather is in fine original condition. Metal tag to underside
Category
Vintage 1950s Stools
Materials
Leather, Teak
T9 Coffee Table by Francois Arnal for Atelier A
By François Arnal
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chic design with chromed steel clip-on legs and 1" thick glass.
Category
Vintage 1970s French Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Rare Presentation Box of Eero Saarinen's GM Tower
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Heavy mirror-finish chrome lid is scale model of Saarinen's GM Tech tower, over carved walnut case. The composition of the box wonderfully demonstrates the connection between the you...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Angelo Mangiarotti Marble Vessel
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Black marble sculptural bowl distributed by Knoll.
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Barware
Carl Sorensen Bronze Lidded Vessel
By Carl Sorensen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large verdigris Art Deco bowl with lid dates from the late 1920s. Signed to underside.
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