Lion Gustavsberg Argenta Box

Gabriella Crespi brass pill cigarette card box Italian, 1970s Measures: 4.4 inches wide on each side 0.3 inches deep Born in 1922, Gabriella Crespi studies architecture at the...

Espelt ceramic gold enamel mirror and box, France, 1960s Beautiful mirror and box. Perfect for a vanity or to store small trinkets. Last photo shown of two boxes which is sold sepa...

Enamel ceramic jewel box gold yellow midcentury, France, 1960s. An exquisite ceramic enameled box with jewel encrusted sections and gold enamel. The ...

Signed Curtis Jere brass flower leaf flower wall sculpture 1970s, 1980s Lovely Vintage C Jere flower leaf sculpture signed in one of the corners. ...

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...

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...

Wilhelm Kåge (1889-1960) for Gustavsberg, Sweden. Square Art Deco lidded box in ceramic with classic green glaze. From the Argenta series. Mid-20th century. Marked. In perfect cond...

This lovely Art Deco box features a greenish-turquoise glaze with silver overlay depicting a seated female nude on the cover, and a silvered grid inside. This is a fine example of t...

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...

Hand painted silver decoration of dragons on green glazed stoneware signed in stamped Gustavsberg ARGENTA 978 III Made in Sweden.

WILHELM KAGE. Vase, "Argenta", Gustavsberg's studio 1945, stoneware with silver decoration of a boy with flowers. Marked with factory stamps in the goods and signed with the anchor a...

An iconic piece of mid century design by Wilhelm Kåge for Gustavsberg. Shape is that of a double gourd and has spectacular form. This particular example is unmarked.