Decorative Objects

This amazingly creative sculpture is made from industrial components, including a vintage sewing machine. This masterpiece was made by Mr. T. Fa...

A leaf-shaped aluminium and brass brutalist style tray by David Marshall (circa 1990s). The shiny aluminium forms the base structure and the brass features on the edges of the piece....

A very decorative organic vase, Work of Art signed Camozzo; the interior presents a high quality blown black Murano glass with a perfect enamel like finish, overlaid with a post-mode...

This is a tea bowl for matcha. It was used to use during tea ceremony. This bowl is made with porcelain and it will come with a wooden box. This bowl was made with style Raku (Raku yaki...

This exceptional, 18 carat gold Easter egg was crafted by the famous London-based royal jewellers, Asprey & Co. The piece was then retailed by Garrard & Co, who once worked in collaboration with Asprey, producing luxury jewellery and silver for an elite clientele. The egg has been crafted from gold filigree — that is, gold wires interwoven to make a delicate lace-like pattern. The gold is arranged to form the image of a peacock, with a magnificent fanned train, composed of red, dark blue and green coloured plique-à-jour enamel. The light blue body of the peacock, and its long swirling light and dark blue tail feathers, have been crafted from intricate guilloché enamel, which is often found on Fabergé style eggs...

Round shape sterling silver jewelry box. The simplicity of the forms and the harmony of the proportions make it suitable for all settings. The lid of the jewelry box has a knob hand...

Handcrafted Glass Vase By LSA International, Poland 1990s

Whimsical fountain sculpture, of copper, by metal artist Glen Mayo; its mermaid focal point holding a leaf which cascades water down the fountain, among turtles, angel fish, other se...

Watch designed by the Austrian artist Hundertwasser. Rare watch, new from stock. Sold with box and certificate. Circa : 1995 Diameter : 4 cm Length of the s...

F vase made for the collection of twenty-seven woods for Chinese Artificial flowers vase by Ettore Sottsass, Edited by Design Gallery Milano, 1995. Limited edition of 12 numbered pi...

One of a kind, large scale contemporary chrome sculpture by Arizona artist, Gary Slater. From the artists website: "Slater Sculpture creates only the f...

A large rare pair of 19th century Meissen Chinoiserie style Nodding Pagoda Figures with Movable Head, Hand and Tongue, known as a "Nodder'. This Unusual...

Glorifying the effects of refracted light for 170 years, the iconic Baccarat pieces are well-know over the world. A crystal masterpiece set of exceptional proportions, the set cryst...

Vintage Shabby Wall Clock Bond Street London Battery Operated Diameter 23 cm (9 in). Good overall condition. Battery not included.

R & Y Augousti small Shagreen box.

Found in Italy, this large Murano fish sculpture in black and amber glass dates from the 1990s. Excellent vintage condition with no flaws or repairs found. Two other fish in this col...

Incredible abstract sculpture by Tafadzwa Tandi made out of a solid piece of serpentine stone. A 3rd generation artist of Zimbabwe, Tafadzwa learned the...

Italian modern yellow ceramic Vase ET1 by Ettore Sottsass for A. Sarri, 1990s Rare and elegant vase mod. ET1 with round base in ceramic painted in yellow and glazed in white. The st...

Piero Fornasetti wall clock created in 1990s. Glass clock face with printed woman face and digits with quartz clockwork. Measures: Ø 37 cm.

A stylish vintage British studio pottery twin handled vessel by Colin Pearson. The vessel is made in porcelain and is of cylindrical shape with ...

Colorful or colourful pair, group or ensemble of Mid-Century Modern style bright yellow vases by Cenedese Vetri of Murano, Italy, circa 1990s. Particularly striking is the narrow nec...

Shlomi Haziza Acrylic Sculpture in shades of Purple. Round Ball is mounted in the center of a 24" tall column. Great Scale and size! Color changes as...

A fine Lundberg Studios paperweight by Daniel Salazar. By Daniel Salazar for Lundberg Studios. With a white lampwork gardenia with three green leaves ...

Arman "Waiting to Exhale" sculpture, circa 1997. Accumulation of Cigars encased in Resin, with incised signature and numbered 77/100.

A very finely crafted signed bowl by New Mexican craftsman Joe H. King. With a fine form somewhat reminiscent of Southwester Native American pottery, the primary wood is beautifully...

A truly superb Vintage Neo-classical sterling silver photo frame, by Arthur Price and Co, with hallmarks for London, Dated 1996. The beautiful shaped rectangular shaped photo frame...

Mesmerizing Kinetics: Iron Sculpture - Painted Motion and Color Manufactured in France by unknown artist, circa 1990. In original condition with minor wear consistent of age and us...

A selection of Stupa architectural details from Thailand, late 20th century, hand-crafted in traditional Thai clay earthenware, with a glazed glo...

Superb set of Candle holder murano in gold finish , this hand made . rare to find two size ! 21 and 23 cm

A cast iron flatback panel originally from a balcony rail in France. Dating to the mid-late 19th century, these decorative objects were used as building or garden elements. Heavy, weighing about 25 pounds, and aged with a beautiful patina, the panel shows a robed figure within an ornate scrolled frame. Imagine it as a piece of outdoor sculpture, used as a fireback, turned into a table base, or framed in a garden gate. Measures: 26.5 inches H x 15.5 inches W x 1.25 inches deep. In very good antique condition with the desired rusted patina.

Karim Rashid for Leonardo Germany Limited Edition New Move Silver Glass Vase, ca 1999. Measures 8” high, base 3-1/2” wide, and mouth 2-1/4” wide. There is a small scratch of silver finish/coating on glass (we've posted an image of the interior and exterior at the area of the scratch). There is also a faint area of small blemishes at the base See images for more detail. If there’s one thing karim rashid hates, it’s trophies. The 40-year-old designer has more than 40 of them, from big international ones like the 1999 George Nelson Award (given for breakthrough furniture design), to quaint little Canadian ones like Designer of the Year 2001. “It came with a little pin,” says Rashid, “and a … a … very nice …” He tries to describe the shape of the award with his hands but gives up. “It’s time that whole trophy thing changes. It’s kitsch. They’re functionless things.” Rashid was asked to design one for the DaimlerChrysler Design Awards (he’s a past recipient). “I was going to make it electro-luminescent. When the lights go out, it has a sensor so it turns on,” he says. But the trophy-as-night-light, a reminder of one’s worth in the darkest hours, didn’t impress Chrysler’s people. He never heard back. They may well be gnawing their knuckles over that decision right now because Rashid’s conquest of the realm of product design is all but complete. A lush and suitably worshipful retrospective of his work, Karim Rashid: I Want to Change the World (Thames & Hudson; 249 pages), hits Australasian bookstores this month. There was a crowd around anything with his stamp on it-including stools, chess sets and storage units-at the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. More than 2 million North Americans are throwing their rubbish into a receptacle he designed, while 750,000 or so park their rears on one of his cheapo plastic chairs. It’s not just in North America. He has been dubbed Der Poet des Plastiks by a retailer in Germany and the prolifico progettista Americano by Interni magazine in Italy. Trophies he may despise, but accolades Rashid can handle. The problem with being the Most Famous Industrial Designer in All the Americas is that you’re still less famous than someone who got kicked off Survivor the first week. Most people cannot name the designer of one nonclothing item in their homes. Rashid, who was born in Egypt, raised in Canada and is living in New York City, is more than happy to bring an end to this anonymity. Not just because he wants to be famous, although there seems to be that, but because he believes design should be a bigger part of the social discourse. “I have been almost alone in this country, trying to make design become a public subject,” he says. His chief method of persuasion is to make the banal better so that people notice design more. He likes creating expensive furniture and perfume bottles just fine, but what really gets his juices going is the everyday: manhole covers, a cremation urn, disposable cigarette lighters, garbage bins, salt and pepper shakers, plastic pens. “I want American Standard to come to me to do the toilets for Home Depot,” he says. In many ways Rashid is more like an itinerant industrial evangelist than a designer. He traveled 200 days last year. He claims to have been to every major mall in America, where he signs his products in high-end design stores and trolls about observing humans interacting with the objects around them. He has taught at design schools for more than a decade, and his work has been in 11 art shows in the past eight months. But mostly he has proselytized the corporate barbarians. And like any good missionary, he has learned to speak the language of his converts. One of the first things he does when he gets new clients is tour their factories to understand their manufacturing capacity. He also visits the retail outlets to see how the product might be displayed. And he really knows how to sell, especially himself. “I work with a guy in L.A.,” says Rashid, declining to name him. “He made a lot of really bad furniture. His business was hand-to-mouth. I proposed seven or eight projects. The pieces I’ve done for him have already become iconic.” The subtitle of his monograph, I Want to Change the World, is not ironic, just characteristically immodest. “Most industrial-design studios try to interpret a client’s needs and come up with a style,” says Paul Rowan, co-founder of housewares manufacturer Umbra. “Karim has his own personal vision.” It helps that Rashid’s vision incorporates things that Rowan needs, like a design that will stack and ship easily and that creates little waste in the making. Rashid’s father was a set designer for Canadian TV who rearranged the family furniture every Sunday. So perhaps it was ordained that Karim would grow up to become one of the pioneers in non-cheesy plastic, making objects that have energy and personality but aren’t wacky. He, like many of his generation, has championed the could-only-be-designed-with-computers blob. But his is not just a blob for its own sake. His Oh Chair...

Set of 8 Vintage Ikea Wave Squiggle Skämt vases , 1990’S Dimensions: 21 cm H , 4,5cm W, 4,2cm W Condition: Good ( Some have small scratches or damages on the surface) Period: 1990’s

Vintage art studio pottery ceramic vase is decorated with crystalline glaze in organic, delicate olive and sky-blue palette. The vase was hand thro...

Fused glass vase features complex multilayered colored glass core in ruby red, beige, cream, and deep cobalt blue colors, encased in clear glass in sommerso technique. Inclusion of ...

Minimalist style geometric welded steel sculpture, "Assemblage IV", by Philadelphia based artist David Tothero. This piece has a mixture of strong geometric shapes and is signed wit...

Large vintage art glass vase features deep, jewel-like color palette and complex sculptural shape. The vase has ovoid silhouette with flattened sides, forming an elongated disk-shap...

Blue ceramic decorative vide poche

This is an extremely rare majolica ceramic bowl by George Pull, dating back to around 1850, inspired by the works of Bernard Palissy from the 16th Century...

Luxury at its finest, made by the World renowned French maker of ‘Daum’ of Nancy, France circa 1960-80. This item crystallizes the extraordinary know-how of the Daum craftsmen. Limit...

William H Turner born 1943. A patinated and cold painted whimsical bronze of a fox on top of a hollowed log and a rabbit peering out of the other side...

Large rectangular tabletop jewelery box with inward corners in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides and finished with fine hand engraving. In the center, a beautiful rectangular miniature cm. 4 x 5.5 hand painted in tempera on vegetable ivory plate by Roberto Masi depicting the portrait of Madame Boucard by Tamara De Lempicka (1931). Size cm. 14 x 19 x 3.2. Weight gr. 1,248. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1998 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens with different subjects and colours, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous glazing firings at high heat about 800°C. Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions. It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books. Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items. hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques. The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds: 1) Fire enamel. 2) Water tempera on an ivory plate. 3) Painted on mother-of-pearl. Fire enameled miniatures: On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature...

A rare style of Japanese Edo Period Vase . Cast in lost wax bronze with an unique greenish patina finish . Larger size at 21" wide and 12" height . Ab...

A bronze sculpture with tripod base by Robert Graham, Mexican - American sculptor who lived in Los Angeles. The sculpture depicts a standing female figure with her arms behind her he...

Mid-Century Modern Rosenthal Bavaria white Bisque handmade German Royal Porcelain Op Art Relief Decor Flower Vase. White bisque porcelain vase...

A pair of Adam style neoclassical candlesticks, 19th century. With fluted tapering sides decorated with swags, rams heads, and leaf garlands topped with bows. The rectangular bases w...

A pair of signed German Guaxs handmade glass vases, in very striking colors. This glass is now highly sought after.

Very colorful and intricately patterned Rose Mandarin wash bowl featuring five storied vignettes with incredible detail. The border includes birds, roses and...

1990s Astonishing Giuseppe Locci polycrome craquelé vase in sardinian ceramic. It's in excellent condition. This vase is signed at the bottom and is ...

A 19th century Meissen Porcelain Group of Commedia Dell"arte, harlequin and columbine dancing. This example depicts Harlequin dancing...

Large clay sculpture by Norwegian-Swedish artist Unni Brekke Widenfalk. She was born in 1951 in Oslo, is a Norwegian-Swedish ceramist and educator. Brekke studied at the Royal School...

Silver plated pair of candle holders, very elegant clean design, fluid lines reminding of Georg Jensen's work. Produced in Italy by Calegaro, u...

Bronze Pompeian Athénienne-Jardinière attributed to Sabatino De Angelis & Fils The present work was inspired by a Pompeian brazier that was buried in 78 A.D. and excavated later. as ...

Set of two splendid Pulegoso vase. One round and the other tall. The round is lighter and the tall darker tone of mustard. Perfectly executed Pulegoso finish. This is Murano Crucible Pulegoso. The mouth has a rim with external gold leaf difficult to notice because it does not contrast with the background. Just magnificent and rare set. At first I believed, because of the round shape, that Bisazza was dovetailing Carlo Scarpa original round shape from the 1930s. When I was able to see the pieces and see the year, then all came clear. In the second part of the 1980s there was a re-discover in Interior design of the Native American arts. In particular, the Navaho products. As Carlo Scarpa took his inspiration from Japanese shapes, here Bisazza translated in glass the Navaho pottery art. Here the reason for a hearty color, these orange toned Puligoso is part of the Seguso tradition. Colors that are not in high fashion. This collection belongs to the Livio Seguso production made under Bisazza ownership for a small period of the early 1990s. Livio continued his artist career with the freedom and the free state of mind that came from not owning a company. Similar path of Luciano Vistosi. Bisazza, the famous luxury mosaic company, continued Seguso models for the first part of the 1990s. Then closed the furnace and continued to focus with his mosaic collection. His masters, Elio Raffaelli...

Williamsburg Reproductions, Craft House in Williamsburg, Virginia sold high quality reproductions of antiques belonging to the foundation to raise funds for restorations at Colonial Williamsburg. Virginia Metalcrafters manufactured the brass items...

Mesmerizing Kinetics: Iron Sculpture - Painted Motion and Color Manufactured in France by unknown artist, circa 1990. In original condition with minor wear consistent of age and us...

Anja Marita Notini (1940-2018) was a Swedish author, photographer, journalist, ceramicist, and painter. She was born in Stockholm. Anja worked for the magazine Femina from 1964 to 19...

Heading : Mahogany writing slope from the mid 19th century Date : Period : Victoria Origin : Englnad Decoration :Mahogany veneered exterior with brass binding and vacant cartouch...

Beautiful Thierry Mugler 2.6 fluid ounce “Etoile Collection” Eau de Parfum factice-dummy in mint condition. This piece comes in the factory box with molded stand. The piece has color...