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Swedish Grace Period Petite Commode
By Axel Einar Hjorth, Carl Malmsten
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sweet three-drawer Swedish Art Deco chest with intarsia mixed wood inlay on patchwork oak and birch veneer, brass fittings.
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Oak
Framed Jean Lurcat Silkscreen Tapestry
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Colorful silkscreen on linen tapestry in near mint condition, in original gilt wood frame. Labeled on back and numbered 126 from an edition of 300. Titled "La Pluie et Le Beau Temps."
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Tapestries
Materials
Canvas
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
Pair of Large Italian Pottery Lamps
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bottle-form pottery bases with hand-incised and decorated surface. A sgriffato grid is overlaid with multicolor dots, creating an earthy yet almost mathematical landscape. Shades not...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
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
Edward Wormley for Dunbar Side Table Model # 5425
By Dunbar Furniture, Edward Wormley
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Occasional table by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, model 5425. Rosewood and Walnut folding x-base with removable mahogany tray top. Labeled with Dunbar gold metal tag
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Rosewood, Mahogany
Elegant Osvaldo Borsani (attrib) Cocktail Table
By Osvaldo Borsani, Atelier Borsani Varedo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
c. 1950, mahogany, ash, fruitwood, the round top clad in starburst pattern mahogany veneer with central brass star inlay, over three round tapered and sharply sabered legs, with chan...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Parchment Topped Coffee Table, Attr. Atelier Borsani Varedo
By Osvaldo Borsani, Atelier Borsani Varedo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elegant low cocktail table with natural goatskin tiles on top, and beautifully carved base and figured legs. Unsigned but exceptionally well made table attributed to Borsani.
Category
Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Goatskin, Hardwood
Pair of Musical Instrument Lamps by Frederick Weinberg
By Frederic Weinberg
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Table or wall lamps in the shape of a guitar and lute. Paper shade with metal frame with back-lit bulb with a Picasso-like sculptural sensibility.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Parchment Paper
French Modernist Nickel Bronze and Frosted Glass Chandelier
By Jean Boris Lacroix
Located in Brooklyn, NY
c. 1930, in the style of Jean Boris Lacroix, top level construction with heavy gauge solid brushed nickel bronze supports and heavy cast glass shades, from the estate of Alan Moss.
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Custom Bar/Cabinet for Kandell Residence
By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Unique, one-of-a-kind, two-door cabinet in exotic hardwood with solid cast brass bamboo frame, and black glass work-surface top, designed as a livingroom bar for the Kandell Penthous...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Rare Ward Bennett Settee and Side Chair in Vintage Fabric
By Brickel Associates, Ward Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bent ash frame with remarkably clean original mod striped cotton velvet upholstery. The chair frame is in a lighter stain wood but otherwise matches. Chair is...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Settees
Materials
Ash
Set of 5 Early Hans Wegner Round Chairs
By Hans J. Wegner
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Classic set of JH-501 teak arm chairs with cane seats. This is an especially beautiiful and early set. The color of the wood and cane on the backs has aged so wonderfully that we hav...
Category
Vintage 1940s Danish Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Cane, Teak
Pair Vintage "Campanino" Chiavari by Fratelli Levaggi
By Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair light and elegant c. 1940s Chiavari dining chairs. The original design dates to the early 19th c., by Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi. Painted wood with original rush seats. This vers...
Category
Vintage 1940s Italian Neoclassical Side Chairs
Materials
Wicker, Wood
Set of Four Rare Dining Chairs by Martin Eisler and Carlo Hauner for Forma
By Carlo Hauner and Martin Eisler, Forma Brazil
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Brazil, circa 1956, delicately carved hardwood frame with hand caned seat. Remnant early Forma Moveis S/A label and Brazilian import stickers to underside.
Category
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Cane, Bubinga
Rare Paul Frankl Cork and Mahogany Kneehole Desk
By Johnson Furniture Company, Paul Frankl
Located in Brooklyn, NY
C. 1940s, American, the mahogany eight- drawer desk encased in cork veneer on four sides, with book storage-well on the reverse. Bakelite and brass pulls....
Category
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Cork
Jay Spectre Console Table
By Jay Spectre
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Deco inspired console with black lacquered base and 24-karat gold leafed top. For Century Furniture.
Category
Late 20th Century American Console Tables
Materials
Gold Leaf
Single Brass Occasional Chair
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Beautifully sculptural solid brass side chair, with scroll detailing and original turquoise silk upholstery. Stamped "Made in Italy".
Category
Vintage 1940s Italian Chairs
Materials
Brass
Danish Rosewood and Steel Coffee Table
By Georg Thams
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chic coffee table with bookmatched rosewood top on brushed flatbar steel base. Design by architect Georg Thams.
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Pair of Large Michael Bang Designed Lamps for Holmegaard
By Michael Bang
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair of Sakura opaline art glass table lamp for Holmegaard of Copenhagen. Milky white glass with abstract brown and pink decoration. Holmegaard labels ...
Category
Vintage 1980s Danish Table Lamps
Materials
Art Glass
Large Wilhelm Kage Farsta Vase
By Gustavsberg, Wilhelm Kage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rustic one-of-a-kind, hand thrown stoneware pottery centerpiece bowl vase with lovely etched design. For Gustavsberg. Signed, with studio...
Category
Vintage 1940s Swedish Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Internally Lit Pop Art "Ice Cube" Occasional Table
By Andre Cazenave
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Fantastic circa 1960s cast transparent fiberglass cube table, with naturalistic textured surface, and internal lightbulb. Could also work as large tabletop lamp...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Side Tables
Materials
Fiberglass
Carl Aubock Brass Coat Rack
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Austria, 1950s, solid cast bronze. Three sculptural biomorphic hooks mounted to a teak bracket. Bracket measures 32.75" x 2.75". Hooks are 7" x 4". Nice vintage example.
Category
Vintage 1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Hat Racks and Stands
Materials
Brass
Jugenstil Enamel on Metal Screen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wonderful early modernist Austrian screen.
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Gabriella Crespi Centerpiece Bowl
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Polished steel and copper, stamped "Gabriella Crespi Breva".
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Serving Bowls
Materials
Copper
Nakashima Widdicomb Style Walnut and Burl Table
By George Nakashima
Located in Brooklyn, NY
American walnut occasional or lamp table with burl maple inlaid top and hickory edge, circa 1957. Nice architectural details like exposed supports and octagonal carved legs. Unmarked...
Category
Vintage 1950s American American Craftsman End Tables
Materials
Walnut
Tall Vintage Brass and Brushed Aluminum 6-Panel Screen
By Maison Jansen, Willy Rizzo, John Vesey
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chic and elegant 6 panel room-divider in brushed aluminum and brass anodized aluminum. This tall and heavy set of panels are joined by brass hinges and are currently in two 3-panel s...
Category
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Aluminum
Brushed Steel Table Lamp
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Simple yet chic design. The lamp base is composed of three curved sheets of steel. In the style of Maria Pergay and Michel Boyer, but designer unknown. Newly rewired for US electrici...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
Carl Aubock Coffee Service
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Graceful design in copper, brass and wrapped cane. Includes coffee pot, cream and sugar servers and serving tray. Signed.
Category
Vintage 1950s Austrian Tea Sets
Materials
Copper
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
Joe Colombo Coupe Floor Lamp Oluce Production, 1967, Italy
By Oluce, Joe Colombo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Coupè floor lamp, designed by Joe Colombo with a structure in lacquered metal. Oluce production, 1967, Italy.
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Strick House Daybed by Amir Farr
By Oscar Niemeyer, Amir Farr
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Daybeds
Materials
Fir
Pair of Dunbar Occasional Chairs
By Edward Wormley
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Incredible Edward Wormley design from the celebrated Janus Collection. This modern take on the Arts and Crafts movement employs an unprecedented level of hand finishing, complicated ...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Armchairs
Materials
Rosewood, Walnut
Large Higgins Rondelay
By Michael and Frances Higgins
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare five-color glass panel screen in wood frame by Michael and Frances Higgins. Great modern design in neutral brown, orange and yellow tones, with...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Glass
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
Ercole Barovier, Pair Massive Murano Glass Table Lamps
By Barovier&Toso, Ercole Barovier
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Impressively sized hand-blown clear glass lamps with gold inclusions. The domed Lenti base support a long twisting glass rod. For Barovier and Toso, Italy, c. 1950. Glass measures: 2...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Blown Glass
Vally Wieselthier for Wiener Werkstatte, Expressionist Lamp Base
By Vally Wieselthier, Wiener Werkstätte
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Circa 1928, Austria, a wonderful example of Secessionist pottery from one of the undisputed masters. Depicting a male harlequin figure. Wiener Wer...
Category
Vintage 1920s Austrian Vienna Secession Table Lamps
Materials
Pottery
Fabio Rieti, Large-Scale Pop Art Mixed Media Painting
By Fabio Rieti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Fabio Rieti (Italian, 1927-2020), “Up Peeking Girl”, ink on paper collage, brushed aluminum frame, with Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome label to stretcher. An i...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Modern Paintings
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
Goatskin and Aluminum Center Table
By John Vesey, Paul M. Jones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
High quality 1970-1980s era table with brown parchment clad top on modernist tripod base. The form is after a John Vesey design and may be a later Paul M. Jones interpretation. Unsig...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Center Tables
Materials
Aluminum
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
Surrealist Ceramic Box by Garouste and Bonetti
By Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
France, rare gilt and painted faience porcelain lidded vessel by the celebrated design duo, circa 1995.
Category
1990s French Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Gilbert Rohde Paldao Secretary Display Case for Herman Miller
By Herman Miller, Gilbert Rohde
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bookcase with drop-front secretary desk and storage drawers in paldao wood. Glass dividers separate storage compartments, and cork-lined back. Retains Herman Miller tag. Great origin...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Bookcases
Materials
Paldao
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
Harvey Probber Teak and Mahogany Side Table
By Harvey Probber
Located in Brooklyn, NY
American, the rectangular teak top on dark stained mahogany curved slat X-base, with brass pin hardware, circa 1960. Model 1216 in the Harvey Probber catalog.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Teak
PP 68 Final Chair by Hans Wegner, with Leather Seat
By Hans J. Wegner, PP Møbler
Located in Brooklyn, NY
PP68 elbow chair, designed by Hans J. Wegner for PP Møbler, Denmark 1987. Sculpturally carved oak with original cognac saddle leather seat. Maker’s stamp on un...
Category
Early 2000s Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Leather, Oak
Pair of Paul McCobb Easy Chairs
By Paul McCobb
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Classic and somewhat rare pair of armchairs in walnut with new silk upholstery. Great lines and nicely proportioned. Newly refinished.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Materials
Walnut
Gerald Thurston "Cricket" Lamp for Lightolier
By Gerald Thurston, Lightolier
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Great modernist design, can sit on table or be hung on the wall as a sconce. Pierced pivoting shade allows for direct or diffused light and brightness control.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Enamel
Rare Boris Lacroix Folding Table
By Jean Boris Lacroix
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ingenious streamline moderne design. Two-tier table in nickel steel with lacquered wood shelves folds flat for storage. An incredible early French Industrial modern...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Streamlined Moderne Tray Tables
Materials
Steel
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
Renato Guttuso, Large-Scale Tempera Painting, 1967
By Renato Guttuso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Renato Guttuso (Italian, 1911-1987), "Nudo", tempera on paper mounted to canvas, signed and dated lower right, Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome label to stretcher, framed under plexiglass....
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Maison Jansen Steel, Bronze and Leather Campaign Chair
By Maison Jansen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chic folding chair with neoclassical styling. Leather seat and arm straps, with solid flat bar steel frame and bronze paw feet and knob handles. Produced in Italy for Maison Jansen.
Category
Vintage 1960s French Lounge Chairs
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Large Ingeborg Lundin Expo Vase for Orrefors
By Ingeborg Lundin, Orrefors
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sweden, unique hand blown clear glass oval vase with ingeniously pinched side that allows placement in two positions; diamond etch signed and numbered to underside, circa 1955.
Category
Vintage 1950s Swedish Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, Large Art Nouveau Centerpiece Bowl
By Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Flambe glazed stoneware, the boat-shaped vessel hand carved with stylized floral designs and glazed in an overall green with burst of reds and purples, circa 1900, France. Signed to ...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Edward Wormley for Dunbar Janus Collection Chest with Natzler Ceramic Pulls
By Edward Wormley, Dunbar Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Model 5770 Janus Collection chest of drawers featuring brass pulls with inset purple-blue demi-lune Natzler ceramic tiles, and exaggerated dovetail knuckle joints on tops, sides, and...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Materials
Brass
1930s Four-Arm Modernist Nickeled Bronze Chandelier
By Boris Jean Lacroix, Jacques Adnet
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Interesting design employing heavy gauge nickel plated bronze square tubing with ballbearing decoration. A nice expression of early French or German Functionalist minimalism. From the Collection of Alan...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Bauhaus Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Custom T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Brass Coffee Table, for Kandell Residence
By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Unique, one of a kind, solid cast brass table with 1” thick green glass top, circa 1953. The second largest of 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
Mid-20th Century American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Architectural Modernist Gilt Bronze Cocktail Table after Maison Ramsay
By Maison Ramsay
Located in Brooklyn, NY
c. 1960s, France, solid flat-bar dore bronze base supporting a floating 1" fossilized marble top. Great build quality and design.
Category
Vintage 1960s European Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
