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ART BLOOMS FROM ARTLESS THINGS In Erik Retzer’s world, art blooms from artless things—humble forms made extraordinary by time’s touch. A refined 18th-century French fauteuil finds comfort in the most casual of rooms, just as a well-worn carpenter’s hammer becomes a sculpture of purpose and grace. Each piece he selects is beautifully crafted, bearing a story that adds depth and meaning to any space. Guided by the belief that quality never gets old, he founded RIGHT PROPER, a collection where the practical and the poetic entwine, proving that elegance belongs wherever it i...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Set of Eight Leather Dining Chairs by Bart van Bekhoven
Located in Chicago, IL
Dutch design has long favored restraint over spectacle, but few contemporary designers understand the power of silhouette quite like Bart van Bekhoven. Working from the Netherlands, ...
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1990s Dutch Modern Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Leather
Faux Drapery Carved-Wood Overmantel Mirror
Located in Chicago, IL
There is a deliberate sleight of hand at work here. This early 20th century faux draped overmantel mirror, likely dating to the 1940s, takes its cues from the theatrical restraint of...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Set of Six American Hoopback Windsor Dining Chairs
Located in Chicago, IL
The Windsor chair is one of America’s most honest design languages. No ornament, no performance, just structure made visible and purpose made legible. This set of six 20th century ho...
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Mid-20th Century American American Colonial Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Wood
Early 20th Century American Copper Trout Weathervane
Located in Chicago, IL
American folk art has always had a complicated relationship with utility. The best examples were made to work first and impress second, which is precisely why they endure. This early...
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Weathervanes
Materials
Copper
Pair of George II-Style Hall Armchairs
Located in Chicago, IL
English country houses have long understood the power of repetition. Chairs lined against marble walls create rhythm as much as function, their silhouettes bringing structure and cer...
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Late 20th Century American George II Armchairs
Materials
Mahogany
Collection of Mounted 19th Century American Barbed Wire Specimens
Located in Chicago, IL
History has a way of hiding in plain sight. This collection of 19th American barbed wire specimens, mounted across three burlap-wrapped boards, pulls it forward with clarity and conv...
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Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Iron
20th Century American Draft Horse Hooked Rug on Custom Wall Mount
Located in Chicago, IL
Narrative comes stitched, not painted, in this 20th-century American folk art hooked rug—an image built loop by loop with clarity and conviction. Two white draft horses stand in prof...
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20th Century American Folk Art Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Pair of Early 20th Century American Art Deco Brass Flush-Mount Fixtures
Located in Chicago, IL
A study in glamour pared back to its essentials, this pair of early 20th-century American Art Deco flush-mount ceiling fixtures evokes the cinematic allure of the period. Cast in hea...
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Flush Mount
Materials
Brass
Massive Late 19th/Early 20th Century Burled Bowl
Located in Chicago, IL
Scale is the first impression. At over thirty inches in diameter, this 19th to early 20th century burl wood bowl commands space with its broad, shallow form hinting at a past life ro...
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Antique Late 19th Century Rustic Decorative Bowls
Materials
Wood, Burl
19th Century Longhorn Hearth Chair Attributed to Wenzel Friedrich
Located in Chicago, IL
Attributed to Wenzel Friedrich, this late 19th-century American hearth chair channels the audacity that defined his work. Born in Bohemia and working in San Antonio, Friedrich helped shape a distinctly American design language—one that embraced regional materials and translated them into objects with real presence.
Texas longhorn horns...
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Antique 19th Century American Victorian Armchairs
Materials
Horn, Leather
French Whitewashed Pine Bookcase
Located in Chicago, IL
Some pieces whisper; this one practically disappears, and does so with intention. This late 20th-century French bookshelf is reduced to its barest elements: square uprights, four she...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Bookcases
Materials
Pine
19th Century Chinese Drum Table
Located in Chicago, IL
There are objects that decorate a room, and then there are those that quietly dominate it. This monumental 19th-century Chinese drum belongs firmly to the...
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Rustic Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Leather, Elm
