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Oscar Tusquets and Lluis Clotet Mailbox by Bd Barcelona, circa 1984
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oscar Tusquets & Lluis Clotet Mailbox – 1984 Design for BD Barcelona Metal and Plastic, Original Vintage Condition
This iconic mailbox, designed by Oscar Tusquets and Lluis Clotet ...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Vintage Italian Decorative Wood Box 1980s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Vintage Italian Decorative Wood Box from the 1980s is a beautifully crafted box with intricate woodwork, originating from Italy. Adorned with t...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This superb Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a rectangular shape with rounded sides Table Cigar Box has hand engraving, with orange and ...
Category
Italian Empire Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Italian Red Decorative Box 1980
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Discover the allure of vintage Italian design with this exquisite Red Decorative Rectangular Box from the 1980s. Meticulously crafted, it ...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Italian Rectangular Oversize Wood Box 1980s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Vintage Italian Rectangular Oversize Wood Box from the 1980s is a stylish and spacious wooden container, showcasing Italian craftsmanship and 1980s design aesthetics. With oversi...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Table Box portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
More than a kilo of sterling silver was needed to create this stunning rectangular tabletop box.
Worked with the very complicated guilloche technique, it was then enamelled at high heat with translucent enamel to make the superb workmanship shine through.
The fine rectangular miniature cm. 7.5 x 10.7 on vegetable ivory.
The small masterpiece handmade by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproduces the famous portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo, by the painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
The unenamelled sterling silver parts were then gilded with a 24-carat galvanic bath.
In Art Nouveau style, with a “lost” zip, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 15 x 18 x 3.5. Weight gr. 1095. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous enamelling firings at around 800°
Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales known as Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the fall of the Emperor on 4 September 1870. From July 28 to September 4...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Italian Decorative Box by Gabriella Crespi 1980s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Vintage Italian Decorative Box by Gabriella Crespi, dating back to the 1980s, exemplifies the renowned designer's unique artistic ...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
SET Suitcase and Beauty Case with Kilim, Vuitton Model
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Anatolian Old Cicim manufactured suit-case and beauty-case, with Italian red Bordeaux fine leather -
I suggest to place on a shelf or cupboard -
ref. 01/02 -
Category
Italian International Style Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
20th Century Sterling Silver Gilted Enameled Table Box
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Round shaped box Made in Italy Silver Gilted 925/1000 with translucent enamels on guilloche with hand painted floral miniatures and gold paillons
The Miniatures are hand-painted on a usually white homogeneous enamel base. The same colored glazes are used, but ground much finer, which are mixed with special oils to form an infinite palette of colors. The paint must be gradually dried on electric stoves...
Category
Italian Other Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Celebration Dish, Chinese Ceramic Lidded Box, Famile Jaune Decor, C.1980
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage celebration dish. A Chinese, ceramic lidded box with Famile Jaune decor, dating to the late 20th century.
Striking decoration across this appealing box
Displays a ...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Porcelain Vintage Trinket Lidded Boxes Set of Three
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Japanese porcelain vintage trinket boxes with lid, set of 3.
Vintage Asian porcelain Japanese trinket boxes with Geishas figures wearing traditional kimonos.
Japanese porcelain decorative box, each box with a different design, perfect for storing small items or use them as decorative boxes on a table or shelf.
Asian Trinket Box...
Category
Japanese Chinoiserie Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Christofle Laque de Chine Box - Sienna.
By Christofle
Located in Bath, GB
A rarely found piece of Christofle "Laque de Chine", part of the Talisman range by the creme de la creme of French silversmiths, Christofle of Paris.
The body is made from silver ...
Category
French Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Penshell and Horn box style of Karl Springer
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Stunning casket shaped wood box covered in tesselated penshell and horn inlay and made to look like Tortoise shell. Very similar to boxes by Karl Springer from the same period.
Category
Philippine Hollywood Regency Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Horn, Shell
Pillbox Queen Victoria English style Shaped Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fired enameled miniature. Queen Victoria English style second half of the 19th century. Measurements cm. 2.2 ...
Category
Italian Queen Anne Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1980s Chinese Enamel Box
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1980s Chinese enamel box.
Category
Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
20th Century Silver Box, Hungary, circa 1980
By Artex
Located in Cagliari, IT
Magnificent box in sterling silver and wood. On the lid are set reproductions of ancient coins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In fact the producer of this article, Artex, was a bra...
Category
Hungarian Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Snuff Box hand engraving, black “niello” type Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box rectangular in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand engraving, black fired enameled “niello” type, in early 19th century “Rococo” style. Snuff Box measurements cm. 4.5 x...
Category
Italian Rococo Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Leather Book Box - Receipts #2
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Leather book box from England. Classic style leather front with creative snap lock to hide your special belongings. Looks perfect on your shelf. Add some classic old English leather ...
Category
English Other Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Tessellated Faux Horn & Wood Round Box
Located in Stamford, CT
Round tessellated faux horn box with wood lining. No makers mark or signature
Category
American Tribal Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Vintage Padlock Key Box in Patinated Brass, Japan 1980s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Japanese novelty wall mounted key hanger in the shape of this jumbo padlock in patinated brass. Curious details with xl revits and key.shaped handle. ...
Category
Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
1980s Tessellated Stone Box with Black Tessellated Stone Inset
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1980s Tessellated Stone Box with Black Tessellated Stone Inset
Interior covered in velvet/fabric
Category
Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stoneware
Decorative Box with lid, Vintage Wooden Brown Jewellery Box, Hand Carved
Located in Wembley, GB
A handmade wooden jewellery box with a lid and lock, it is perfectly designed and created in a suitable size for keeping valuables inside. The top of this box has leaf patterns and l...
Category
Turkish Art Deco Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Papercord, Boxwood, Driftwood
1980s Tesellated Stone and Brass Inlayed Tall Box
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1980s Tesellated Stone and Brass Inlayed Tall Box is covered in contrasting marble
Brass trim lines the lid's rim
This hinged lid opens to a beautifully finis...
Category
Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Brass
Black Box Octagonal with black edge enamel with pure Gold Paillons Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box Octagonal is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box Octagonal
Table Box Octagonal has translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Table Box Octagonal has black edge with pure g...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Esa Fedrigolli Sculptural Bronze 1980s Italian Box
Located in New York, NY
A sculptural decorative lidded bronze Italian box designed by Esa Fedrigolli for Esart. Signed
Category
Italian Post-Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Fabienne Jouvin Cloisonne Box, France, 1980s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Produced in Paris by Fabienne Jouvin, 1980s.
Very good condition with signs of usage and patina.
Category
French French Provincial Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Carved Green Soapstone Elephant Motif Decorative Box
Located in Stamford, CT
1980s green carved soapstone decorative box. Carved elephant motif across the lid of the box. No makers mark or signature.
Category
Indian Tribal Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone
Michael Elkan Hinged box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A large Burled wood box by Michael Elkan
Nice size with 3 separate sections
Original Artist Tag included
Category
American Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
1980s Leather Sectioned Box Piel Canela Juarez Mexico City
By Hermès
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Distressed Cognac Leather Wrapped Sectioned Box Juarez Mexico City
stamped by maker Handcrafted by Piel Canela
In the style of HERMES
Sectioned compartments.
Contrast stitching.
4 h ...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Salimbeni Table Box Art Nouveau Painting Pre-Raphaelite School Fired Enamel
Located in Firenze, FI
This rectangular table box is a masterpiece of craftsmanship. Crafted from 925/1000 sterling silver and gold-plated, it features a hand-painted fire-enameled miniature by Beatrice Me...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box Tortoiseshell Effect Lucite and Silver Christian Dior Style, Italy, 1980s
Located in Rome, IT
Squared decorative jewelry box in tortoiseshell-effect lucite and Silver in Christian Dior style.
Made in Italy in the 1980s.
Perfect desk object or gift idea.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver
Maitland Smith Tessellated Box Art Deco Revival
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Wonderful 1980s Art Deco revival box by Maitland Smith constructed out of tessellated marble with inlaid brass detail.
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Brass
Late 20th Century Hand-Crafted Wooden Organic Treasure Box Square Design Inlay
Located in Lisse, NL
A unique, decorative and multipurpose box.
If you are looking for a handsome and stylish box for keeping your jewelry or other 'objects of Virtue' than this handcrafted piece could be perfect for you. The maker has gone to great length in making this box, because all sides are perfectly inlaid with square faux shell...
Category
European Art Deco Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Midcentury Chrome Glass and Briar Wood Pocket Emptier in Christian Dior Style
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful midcentury chrome glass and briarwood pocket emptier. This fantastic piece was designed in Christian Dior Style during the 1980s.
The...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Geometric Ceramic Box
Located in Richmond, VA
A square blue ceramic box featuring a striking geometric motif, with a glazed interior and signed on the base Van Assche, circa 1980s.
Category
Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Snuff Box Sterling Silver Green and Sky Stripes Guilloche Enamel Box Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fired enamelled on guillochè and fine hand-engraved on all sides, French Empire Napoleo...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Round Box with Painted Porcelain
Located in VALENZA, IT
Smooth round 925 sterling silver box.
The lid was modeled to be able to apply a Limoges porcelain, subsequently hand painted in polychrome with a female figure picking flowers.
On ...
Category
Italian Other Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Carved Wooden Sweater Stash Box by Joe A Avarista, 1986
By Joe A. Avarista
Located in Nashville, TN
Wooden carved argyle sweater carved and painted by Joe A Avarista. Avarista was commissioned to make a series of sweater boxes to house a set of rare ink pens. This box is one of a k...
Category
American Arts and Crafts Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint
Table Box Octagonal Light Blue Fired Enamel and Miniature Madame Drouais on Sali
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and beautiful hand-painted enamelled miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the portrait of Madame Drouais painted by her husband Francois Hubert in 1785 and conserved in the Louvre Museum. Fine hand-engravings on the sides. French Empire style. Measure cm. 8x8x3.7. Weight gr. 285. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1989 and manufactured in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous eamelled firings at high heat at 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...
Category
Italian Other Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Empire Pewter 701 Covered Trinket Ring Dish Decorative Box Blue Velvet Inlaid 89
Located in Miami, FL
Scandinavian Modern silver color Jewelry decorative covered box, Trinket, Keepsake by Empire Pewter 701.
Inside is laid out with royal blue velvet and su...
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Stanley Szwarc Stainless Steel Rectangular Large Box Vintage
By Stanley Szwarc
Located in North Miami, FL
This fabulous long and unusual rectangular box is polished satin stainless steel. The dimensions of the work on top have flower like bursts in Industrial and floral forms. It is not ...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stainless Steel
XX Century Italian Sterling Silver oblong decorative box
By Mario Poli
Located in VALENZA, IT
Decorative oblong table box in 925 sterling silver.
The bottom of the box was hand-shaped from a sterling silver sheet and hammered and then finished with a flat edge.
The hinged and...
Category
Italian Other Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Karl Springer Exceptional Lidded Box in Tessellated Travertine 1980s 'Signed'
Located in New York, NY
Exceptionally crafted table top box in tessellated travertine with wood interior by Karl Springer, American 1980's (signed "Karl Springer" on bottom). This box has a nice scale and t...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine
Blue Sodalite Stone Box, Hinged, Signed 800 Silver
Located in New York, NY
Blue Sodalite Stone Box, Hinged, Signed 800 Silver. Small scale stone box with gilt hinge - hallmarked 800 silver.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone
Karl Springer Unique Hinged Box in Polished Sodalite Stone 1980s 'Signed'
Located in New York, NY
Stunning one-of-a-kind hinged box in polished blue sodalite stone by Karl Springer, American 1980's (shown with original showroom tag from the 1980’s). Blue sodalite is a rare minera...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Brass
Vintage Tissue Box in Exotic Indian Rosewood with Brass Inlays
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Exquisite vintage tissue box made of solid sheesham wood with exotic brass inlays. handcrafted by Indian artisans, the box has a stylized hand carve...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Bill Long Large Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A great organic shaped Box
Integrated carved interior tray
Beautiful wood selection
A large organic example of American Craft
Category
American Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Artist-made vintage onyx / agate & walnut lidded vessel box, signed & dated 1984
Located in Hastings, GB
This beautifully tactile sculptural onyx lidded box is a unique artist-made piece...unfortunately I've been unable to identify the maker's mark. We sourced it in Phoenix, Arizona, al...
Category
American Post-Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Karl Springer Set of Stunning Polished Petrified Wood Orbs on Custom Bases 1980s
Located in New York, NY
Set of 3 polished petrified wood orbs on custom metal bases by Karl Springer, American 1980's (retain original labels from the 1980s showing the original pric...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Metal, Brass
Pair of Mid-Century Modern Tessellated Stone Boxes by Maitland Smith
Located in New York, NY
This elegant pair of modernist boxes were realized by the celebrated 20th century design firm Maitland Smith in the Philippines, circa 1980. They feature two cylindrical bodies- one ...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone
Japanese Kazaribako Glass Box Kyohei Fujita
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Kazaribako "Ornamented Box" made of glass by Japanese artist Kyohei Fujita (1921-2004) circa 1980s. The hand-blown glass box with fitting lid is of an oval shape, slightly irregula...
Category
Japanese Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Karl Springer Hinged Box in Brown and Black Cobra, 1980s
Located in New York, NY
Hinged box covered in brown and black cobra with interior covered in moiré silk by Karl Springer, American 1980's. The craftsmanship and attention to detail are superb.
Category
American Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
Vintage Tessellated Marble Box by Maitland Smith
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Tessellated with black and white marble jewelry box; velvet lined interior by Maitland Smith.
Category
American Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
Vintage Coastal Washed Pencil Reed Band Box
Located in west palm beach, FL
Effortlessly blending coastal charm with organic modern style, this vintage pencil reed band box is a true statement in sculptural storage. Featuring a sand-textured speckled surface...
Category
Philippine Organic Modern Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rattan, Reed, Plaster
Johnson and Marcius Bone and Mica Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A large scale box
exotic materials and form
Lined interior.
Category
American Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone
Brass and Black Lacquer Trio of Nesting Boxes
Located in Miami, FL
A set of 3 nesting boxes.
Category
Italian Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Mirrored Jewelry Box in Antique Grey and Bronze Glass, c. 1980's
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Vintage mirrored decorative box. The glass box captures the beautiful gradient movement of agate stone with antique spotted hues of grey and bronze. Th...
Category
American Hollywood Regency Vintage 1980s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Velvet, Mirror, Smoked Glass
