Lion Gustavsberg Argenta Box

Blue brown ceramics brass ice bucket pitcher French Italian LaBorne Quimper vase Set of six brown and blue decorative objects. Three are by Odetta Quimper from 1930s and 1940s, One is La Borne One blue with brass parchment ice bucket (Aldo Tura attr.), One brown with brass parchment carafe (Aldo Tura Attr.) Blue and grey ceramic covered box: 3.5 inches wide, 4 inches high La Borne vase: 7.5 inches high, 4 inches wide at base, 2.5 inches wide at top Odetta Quimper small round vase...

Enrique Garcel tesselated bone shell lacquer brown brass candleholders, 1970 1980. Four candleholders that each have a different type of organic materia...

Gabriella Crespi signed brass chalices 1970 midcentury Italian Dimensions: 3.5 in diameter, 7 in height, base 3 in. About Gabriella Crespi (Designer) Bronze discs that open up like clamshells for storage and fold back in to become side tables. Sleek cubes barely suspended off the ground that transform into full-size dining tables. Clean-lined boxes that contain multilevel shelving. Looking at the work of Italian designer Gabriella Crespi, born in 1922 and still producing furniture in her Milan studio, it’s hard to believe that many of these highly functional pieces — modernist Rubik’s Cubes of materials, colors and ergonomics — were created decades ago. Among her best-known creations, the bronze Ellisse table, 1976, and her bronze-and-lacquer Yang-Yin bar, 1979, encapsulate a designer who had a strong dualism in her vision, mixing humble and precious materials, for instance, or creating geometric shapes that were softened by sensual surfaces. Crespi began studying architecture in 1944 at the Politecnico, in Milan, where she was among just a handful of women, and became profoundly influenced by the work of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. After getting married and having children, she launched her own collections, from jewelry to furniture, and soon gained a loyal following, with design houses such as Maison Dior snapping pieces up for their own lines. She began work on her most iconic collection, “Plurimi,” in the late 1960s, and the series — including her Dama table...

Piero Fornasetti vintage ceramic storage jars, Italy, 1960s. Flour, coffee, tea There is a sugar one as well from the same collection but ...

A vase of model Argenta, designed by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg . The vase is 11.5 cm high and in excellent condition. Marked Argenta and hand turned below.

Wilhelm Kage studied painting at art school and worked as a poster artist after graduation. As art director of Gustavsberg from 1917, he laid the foundations for modern design in Swe...

Vase by Wilhelm Kage figuring silver inlay with 2 stylised fishes with bubbles. Signed GUSTAVSBERG ARGENTA with anchor 1016. Wilhelm Kåge (1889-1960) is one of the most well-known r...

A mid 19th Century marked FGW 1483 bos with lion lid. Czech Republic, when it was part of the Austro Hungarian Empire. Measurements: Length: 5" Width: 3" Height: 4"