Andirons, Male and Female, by John Lyle, ca. 2010- in Bronze

This tall Torchere was produced by Frances Elkins The gilding has a lovely aged patina with some loss. The casting is crisp and true to the original d...

A collection of historic documents of the greatest, most secret and legendary collections formed by private collectors in the 20th Century. The set of Auction Catalogs also includes a DVD of the entire collection. For fifty years, the couturier Yves Saint Laurent and his friend and partner Pierre Berge...

A pair of unusual, modernist andirons by Wah Chang, signed. Made ca '1950 the bases are stamped Van Nuys, California. A note about the designer. " Wah Ming Chang (August 2, 1917 – December 22, 2003) was an American designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adoptive father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. The Chang family moved from Honolulu, Hawaii to San Francisco, California and about 1920 opened the Ho-Ho Tea Room on Sutter Street, which became a favorite venue for the city's Bohemian artists. Wah-Ming's mother, Fai Sue Chang, was a graduate of Berkeley's California School of Arts and Crafts (today's California College of the Arts), where she specialized in fashion design and etching. After she died in 1927, her husband persuaded Wah Ming Chang's art teacher and family friends, the highly respected printmaker, puppeteer, and theatre designer, James Blanding Sloan and his wife Mildred Taylor, to become his son's legal guardians. Sloan exhibited Wah Ming's etchings and watercolors in public exhibitions as early as 1925 to favorable reviews in the San Francisco Bay Area and later in the largest art colony on the Pacific Coast, Carmel-by-the-Sea. The child became part of Sloan's family, traveled in 1926 to Taos, New Mexico, for the on-site study of American Indian culture, and in 1928 displayed his block prints in joint exhibitions with Sloan at the prestigious Philadelphia Print Club and in Pasadena, California. He became a valued assistant in several of Sloan's marionette theatres as well as in productions for the Hollywood Bowl Ballet and the "Cavalcade of Texas." In the mid-1940s Chang formed a joint studio business with Sloan, The East-West Film Company, and produced such memorable films as Pick a Bale of Cotton (an interview and performance with the legendary blues and folk singer Lead Belly in 1944) and the highly controversial anti-war short (1946–47), The Way of Peace, created in part with elaborate miniature sets and puppets in stop...

nthropomorphic Andirons in Bronze sculpted by Jacques Jarrige. Signed Jarrige's work has been recently featured in IDEAT, November 2011, AD Collector, October 2011, World of Interiors September 2011 and May 2011, Maison Francaise September 2011 and Architectural Digest France July-August 2011 edition p 128-130 with a special focus on the artist Jacques Jarrige is exclusively represented in the U.S. by Valerie Goodman Gallery A list of notable solo exhibitions follows: 1989 Entrepôts de Bercy, Paris 1991 Galerie En attendant les Barbares, Paris 1993 Galerie En attendant les Barbares, Paris 1998 Hôtel de ville de Paris Salle Saint Jean 2002 Galerie Frédéric de Luca 2006 Galerie Cat Berro...