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By 1740, England's prosperous country gentry were furnishing their houses with much the same ambition as their fashionable London counterparts, though often with a decidedly less for...

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...

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...

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...

Tea was never simply tea in Georgian England. It was an occasion, a performance, and occasionally an excuse to show the neighbors what had just arrived from the cabinetmaker. This 1...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

A little bit farmstead ingenuity, a little bit rural sculpture, and entirely American in spirit. This wonderfully quirky folk stool was fashioned from the forgotten vocabulary of ear...

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 ...

There is an old saying among sailors: The Sea remembers everything. Every clever tack, every reckless jybe, every victory won by inches rather than miles. Perhaps that is why models ...

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...

The Dutch have always had a peculiar talent for restraint. Give them a chair and they'll remove everything unnecessary until only the essentials remain. What survives is always beaut...

These are the kinds of tables designers spend years looking for and never find. Nineteenth century Spanish furniture occupies a category all its own. Less concerned with ornament th...

This vintage hall tree is Adirondack style at its most ambitious. A towering mahogany-stained oak frame serves as the backbone for an astonishing assemblage of fallow deer antlers, e...

French Art Deco always understood the seduction of surface, and this burled walnut center table leans into it unapologetically. The circular top is inlaid in a radiating parquetry st...

Few American ceramic traditions feel as instantly recognizable as Acoma Pueblo pottery. Hand built, stone polished, and painted in graphic mineral pigments, these vessels carry centu...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

This turn-of-the-20th-century English Thames Valley Windsor chair is where rural grit meets high-drama design. A bold reinterpretation of an 18th-century original, this version swaps...

There’s a certain restraint here that feels distinctly French—measured, architectural, and entirely self-possessed. This Art Deco lamp pares the form down to its essentials, letting ...

This 19th-century French Regency tub chair distills the language of its period with uncommon clarity and confidence. A deep, near-black green ground sets the stage—rich, saturated, a...

This late 19th-century American garden table refuses polish in favor of presence. The zinc top—softly dimpled, mottled, and unapologetically timeworn—reads like a working surface tha...

These 19th-century lithographs—War and Peace—carry the layered authorship typical of British printmaking at the time, where image, technique, and distribution each played a distinct ...

A late 20th-century plaster mirror, rectangular in form, but with a softened center that changes the tone entirely. The outer frame is structured and architectural, while the oval mi...

Some portraits capture a moment—others preserve an era. Here, a late 18th-century English drawing of a young girl stands as a record of changing taste and sensibility. The neoclassi...

Originally a working tool, this late 19th-century garden rake has been reimagined as a sculptural wall piece. The handle, formed from an espaliered branch, rises cleanly before natur...

There’s a certain freedom in American folk art—the absence of pretense, the confidence of the hand, the instinct to make something simply because it feels right. This 20th-century cu...

There’s a certain alchemy in the work of Rose Tarlow—a way of distilling history into something quieter, more intentional, and entirely her own. Tarlow's Georgina Ribbon-Back Armchai...

There is something unmistakably romantic about the Swiss Black Forest tradition—where craftsmanship leans into illusion, and wood is coaxed into becoming something almost alive. This...

Some pieces ask to be used; others ask to be understood. This mid-20th century American lamp manages both, beginning with a natural burl base that rises in an almost upright, sculptu...

There is a particular elegance in objects that do one thing—and do it beautifully. This 19th-century English lazy Susan is disarmingly simple: a circular top carved from a single, g...

Paris, just after empire. The heavy drama of Napoleon gives way to something lighter—more romantic, more refined. During the brief Charles X period (1824–1830), French designers trad...

A quiet piece of Georgian theater. In 18th-century England, the dumbwaiter appeared at the edge of the dining table as both servant and stagehand—holding bottles, condiments, and dis...

Carved from luminous white Italian marble, this mid-20th century tazza is a study in proportion and restraint. Its shallow bowl rises from a simple pedestal, the stone animated by na...

This compelling 18th-century burl ash bowl comes from the forests of the Northeastern Woodlands or Great Lakes region, where ash trees grow dense and wild, often producing the extrao...

This remarkable 18th-century Northeastern Woodlands or Great Lakes region Native American burl ash bowl began as a wild growth on an ash tree, where the grain twisted and swirled int...

These 19th-century French wax seals once secured private correspondence: love notes, legal papers, invitations, gossip best kept from wandering eyes. ...

A early 20th century Edwardian annunciator panel, the quiet nerve center of a well-run household gathers sixteen rooms into a single quiet command center—Drawing Rm, Library, Hall, D...

Three words, three fish, and not a hint of subtlety. Hand-carved from wood and painted to resemble rainbow trout, the trio reclines inside an oversized wooden frying pan as if awaiti...

Crafted of glowing 19th century American cherry, this side table rises on a turned pedestal that unfurls into three scrolled legs — and then, just when you think you understand it, t...

They read as abstract sculpture: spare, curved, modernist. In fact, they are something far more important. These eight 19th century wooden hog gambrels were, at one point, a must-ha...

An oversized stack of Buffalo Nickels, cast in solid zinc, cool to the touch and satisfyingly weighty in the hand. Industrial metal elevates humble pocket change into something sculp...

Rendering with a backbone. A single male figure, braced against a vertical plane, all tension and sinew, part study, part confrontation. The hatching is relentless, controlled but o...

There is a reason the oval endures. It softens a room without surrendering structure—a lesson borrowed straight from classical architecture, where curve tempers column and ornament d...

We found this bench in central Wisconsin, on Lake Winnebago, at a house perched at the water's edge—one of those places where the horizon feels earned. The rooms were lined with duc...

We found it in a fishing village in northern Wisconsin—where Lake Superior waters stretch to the horizon. It may be freshwater, but it's anything but Midwestern Nice. This eagle hea...

This one-of-a-kind American Folk Art Dalmatian is carved from salvaged wood, assembled with cheerful ingenuity, and painted in classic black spots that refuse to behave. His legs are...

These chairs do not ask to be noticed. They assume you already have. A 19th century English pair in richly figured mahogany, they take the familiar language of Chippendale and push ...

Function first. Beauty followed. This late 19th century American ship’s oil lantern was built for visibility in unforgiving conditions, fitted with a...

These 20th-century female figure studies aren't asking to be understood. They insist on being felt. Rooted in the hard-edged confidence of Art Deco design, each drawing treats the f...

This 19th-century Adirondack twig table delivers that elusive mix of rustic irreverence and sculptural clarity. The rectangular top, crisply framed in young birch, sets the tone—clea...

Carved in the early 21st century with a wink toward both tradition and modernism, this life-size wooden elk head reimagines the classic trophy mount in a thoroughly contemporary way....

Wildly intricate yet distinctly American, this one-of-a-kind, artist-made table sits squarely in the lineage of American folk art—where resourcefulness meets imagination, and nature ...

A handsome collision of sport and sculpture, this set of seven vintage American and English polo sticks carries the easy authority of a life well played. Each mallet, weathered to pe...

A chair with presence, and just the right amount of swagger. This 17th-century Louis XIII armchair, constructed of rich walnut, balances baroque drama with a stripped-down ease that ...

An icon of Southwestern modernism, this American Pueblo Deco armchair marries the clean geometry of Art Deco with the earthy sensibility of Pueblo Revival. The form is crisp and arch...