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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
Eleven Arm Chandelier by Erik Höglund for Boda Glasbruk, Sweden
Located in Chicago, IL
Arriving at Boda Glasbruk in 1953, Erik Höglund proceeded to upend nearly every convention of Swedish art glass. He favored thick, irregular forms, trapped bubbles and primitive imag...
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Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of Bart van Beckhoven Leather-Clad Dining Chairs
Located in Chicago, IL
These have that wonderful quality of looking almost severe until you sit in them. Dutch designer Bart van Bekhoven has long worked in that territory, pairing architectural silhouette...
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Late 20th Century Dutch Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather
Adirondack Style Twig Table
Located in Chicago, IL
There is something almost wonderfully contrary about Adirondack furniture: the people commissioning the great camps of the 19th century had fortunes built on railroads, banking and i...
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Mid-20th Century American Adirondack Side Tables
Materials
Willow
American Arts & Crafts Hammered Copper Tray
Located in Chicago, IL
The hammer marks are the signature here, not a name, but the evidence of the hand that made it. This early 20th-century American copper tray belongs squarely to the Arts & Crafts tra...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Decorative Dishes and Vide-P...
Materials
Copper
Rather Large Round Framed Mirror
Located in Chicago, IL
There is something particularly satisfying about a circle—especially when it is given this much presence. This large vintage mirror is framed in pine with an unusually deep profile, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Wall Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Pine
Naive Common Goldeneye Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
The best wildlife paintings aren't about the animal. They're about the moment.
This twentieth-century American oil on canvas captures the split second every birdwatcher hopes to wit...
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Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of Adirondack Style Twig Tables
Located in Chicago, IL
At the turn of the twentieth century, east coast industrialists escaped the cities for the solitude of the Adirondacks, where the finest furniture wasn't carved from mahogany but coa...
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20th Century American Adirondack Side Tables
Materials
Willow
Pair of 19th Century Georgian Hall Chairs
Located in Chicago, IL
Hall chairs were never meant for lingering. They stood quietly in the entrance halls of Georgian country houses, reserved for servants keeping watch over arriving callers, deliveries...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Side Chairs
Materials
Mahogany
Brass Ship's Lantern Pendant Light
Located in Chicago, IL
A little bit of harbor romance, captured in brass and glass. This 20th century pendant lantern takes its cues from the classic ship’s lights of another era, with a warm brass body an...
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20th Century American Industrial Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
Early 20th Century American Copper Thoroughbred Horse Weathervane
Located in Chicago, IL
A true piece of American folk sculpture, this early 20th century copper running thoroughbred weathervane carries the spirit of open fields, race tracks, and the restless energy of th...
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Weathervanes
Materials
Copper
Pair of Club Chairs by Bart Van Bekhoven
Located in Chicago, IL
The Dutch have never been seduced by excess. They leave that to the French. What they perfected instead was restraint—the difficult art of making something so perfectly proportioned ...
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Late 20th Century Dutch Modern Club Chairs
Materials
Leather
'Please Take Your Butt Outside', Framed Cross Stitch Embroidery
Located in Chicago, IL
There was a time when American samplers taught virtue; 'With patience comes wisdom,' or 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.' Then, somewhere along the way, Grandma developed a sense of humor.
This contemporary cross stitch borrows every convention of the early American sampler...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Cotton
