European Decorative Objects

Ceramic vide-poche or low bowl in olive green tones with a subtle blue flame in the center. It comes with a thick glaze. Scandinavian Mid-Century 1960s, produced by Palshus (Denmark...

Here we have an unique Italian Murano Art Studio glass vase , hand blown glass with multiple techniques involved and glass in tones of orange black and yellow colors melting in an ...

Archimede Seguso (1909-1999), Venice. Murano sculpture in mouth-blown art glass. Two nesting doves. Italian design, 1970s. Measures: 12.5 x 8 cm. In excellent condition. Label and...

Vintage snow owl figure 2475 by Bing & Grøndahl later Royal Copenhagen in Denmark. It's made of porcelain with white and brown glaze by Danish artist K. Otto...

Vincenzo Nason & C. Murano, Italy, 1970s. This fish is made in Murano glass. It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but it can be considered as in exce...

A small round glass bowl crafted in the early 1970s by Michael Harris. This particular piece is one of Harris's early works for Mdina, making it a rare piece of glass history. It ...

Oval brass faux bamboo magazine rack or basket by Bottega Garda, Italy, 1970s. On the bottom the signature is still engraved "Made in Italy". Bott...

Set of 8 Blue Memphis style candle sticks , 1980s

Impressive pair of hand carved vases in the neoclassical style, the cover with fruit finial, above an ovoid body adorned with Nereid handles and festoons, raised on circular foot and...

Stunning midcentury Lucite and chrome squared valet tray or ashtray. This wonderful item was produced in France in the style of Christian Dior in 1970. The pocket emptier is lovely because of the beautiful straight lines and the chromed metal central part, making it look like a cube of ice with a floating rounded chromed plate in the middle. A wonderful example of design from the 1970s, both for the fusion of materials and colours. The chromed plate can be moved, changing the shape of the item. A gorgeous item that will enhance a midcentury-style living room, studio or entrance hall. Christian Dior was founded in 1946 by designer Christian Dior. It currently designs and retails leather goods, fashion accessories, footwear, jewelry, timepieces, fragrance, makeup, and skincare products, while also maintaining its tradition as a creator of haute-couture under the Christian Dior Couture division. The Christian Dior label remains largely for women's offerings, although the company also operates the Dior Homme division for men and the baby Dior...

Very nice rattan and brass basket made in italy in the 1970s. Round shape, modern style of the middle of the century, it is inspired by the drawings of gabriella crespi. Beauti...

Tall Murano glass clear bubbled glass vessel with gold inclusions and dome-shaped lid, circa 1990s. Unknown maker. Excellent vintage condition with no...

Neos Lorenz du Pasquier & Sowden Postmodern Clock A blue and purple plastic postmodern wall clock with yellow hands and numbers designed by Nathalie du Pasquier and George Sowden for...

From Verona Italy, a pair of late 20th century hand carved mecca finish and ivory painted bases, suitable to make beautiful bedside table lamps, see the holes suitable for wiring in ...

Nice vase from the Walter Becht company Germany.

This breathtaking Pair of Staggered Hand-Blown Smoked Bronze Murano Glass Vases W/24Karat White Gold Flecks by Seguso Vetri D'Arte originates from Italy, Circa 1970. These vases have...

Dimensions: 7,5cm H, 12cm W, 9cm D Period: 1970’s Condition: Good Color: Gold material: Metal

1970 Italian Decorative Box Decorative box in wood and inox. Italy. 1970 H. 6 cm W. 30 cm D. 20 cm

This life-size dog was made of resin, probably used as an advertising dog for dog food, an original piece of furniture.

Small table clock in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, with columns in neo-classical Hellenic style. Swiss mechanical movement from Mai...

A beautiful English predominantly blue and white 'botanical' decorated round box, circa late-20th century, England. Box can hold jewelry other items. Beautiful floral and leaf design...

1970s Gorgeous space age pair of vases in Murano glass by Enrico Coveri. These vases are two sculptures and they are in excellent conditions. Signed at the bottom. Made in Italy diam...

Pierre Cardin bookend silver elephants black base design, 1980.

Vintage annual bullfinch "Punatulkku" figurine "of the "Birds" collection, designed by Oiva Toikka for IIttala in 1994. The bird is made of mouth blown ...

Very decorative, small Murano glass bowl from the late 1970s in Italy. This unusal Murano glass bowl is a very special one becuase this example has been handpainted by an artist (unf...

This is a pair of vintage candlesticks. An English, glass decorative candle nozzle, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970. Add a delightful decorative touch to your centrepiec...

Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings 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 colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors. With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color. It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times. Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene. Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors. The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...

Italian and specifically Florentine vase in White and Blue Ceramic made by the Taccini Family Vinci 1976, as written on the bottom, decorated in the round with a lake landscape, wit...

Made in Italy, 1970s-1980s. This ice bucket / bowl by Roberto Sambonet is made in glass and steel and features a mirrored top with a palm design. It might show slight traces of use s...

Industrial wall clock was produced by Pragotron in former Czechoslovakia during the 1980s. It features a white aluminium dial and a curved plastic glass cover. The piece has been con...

An attractive mid 20th Century pate de verre glass study of butterfly rested on a rose with excellent detail and very fine vibrant colour, signed Daum France ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ...

This is one of the more rare to find vases from the Royal Copenhagen "Baca " series by Nils Thorsson. This vase was designed in the 1960s and manufactured in the period 1969-1974. The vase features an abstract decor...

Stoneware vase by Claude Gaget - La Borne - 1970 - Mountains and Sunset decor Enamelled vase, it is made of stoneware and is glazed in earthy, shaded tones. It presents a very original work on the material. The inspiration is brutalist. It's typical of the La Borne's work. It is in a very good condition. --------------------------------------- One of the greatest French ceramists of La Borne, Claude Gaget born in 1948 studied science in Paris, but his interest in pottery led him to meet Pierre...

Handmade George III style oblong box in sterling silver. On the body of the box typical lines with fluted. The lid has the same design but embossed. The han...

Octagonal notched photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled baroque style engraving. External dimensions cm. 14.2 x 17.8, internal oval cm. 8 x 12....

Twenty-seven woods for a Chinese artificial flower vase omega by Ettore Sottsass, Edited by Design Gallery Milano, 1995. Limited edition ...

This box is in burl wood. It has been made in France in the 1970s. The color is brown, and it is in an good condition.

Large Vintage Hand Painted Decorative Ceramic Fish Bowl By Italian Ceramist Nino Parrucca Signed and Numbered. Circa 1990s Features a large size and a c...

Pair of blue swans in Murano.

A lidded bowl designed by Hertha Bengtson at Rörstrand. It is 6 cm (2.4") high and 10 cm (4") in diameter. It is marked as 2nd quality but I cannot see why because it is in excellent...

Beautiful Murano clear glass vase with heavy solid base. Bubble decoration within solid base. Signed Des. L. Seguso.

This vintage signed amazing Murano Livio Seguso hand blown glass optical sommerso sculpture is a limited edition and numbered 63/100. It is heavy, abstract and has layers of differen...

Playful teapot shaped paperweight is made in sommerso technique; colored glass gather, dipped into pigments, is cased over with clear glass. Controlled bubbles are used to give the p...

Italian ceramic hedgehog sculpture (circa 1970s) by Alessio Tasca (born 1929). This endearing, minimalist ceramic hedgehog is of the Italian school style most likely inspired by the ...

Vintage Incalmo Vase by Vetreria Archimede Seguso 1972 A vintage Venetian art glass vase manufactured by Vetreria Archimede Seguso in 1972. Clear...

A mallard duck desk or smoker set in Parisian porcelain, composed of an ashtray, a desk tray, a business card box and a tobacco jar dressed in cellar leather...

This 1980s sculpture is a powerful testament to contemporary abstract modern art, an artwork that embodies the essence of industrial design transformed into visual poetry. Created by...

Tabacco box with a Lid in wood. With brass. Brown color. It has been made in France Circa 1970.

Set of 5 rattan pot holders with wheels, Italy 1980. Dimensions of individual elements Large high 31 H x 49 D cm Large bass 23.5 H x 52 D cm Medium 1 – 31.5...

Article: Crystal glass ashtray Producer: ART VANNES FRANCE (marked) Age: 1970s   Wonderful heavy glass element designed and produced by Art Vannes in France i...

A vibrant MCM Italian ceramic vase by Ivo de Santis for Gli Etruschi, circa 1960s. The vase features colorful stripes and a spiral accent. Signed on the underside. The hand thrown ...

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...

This engaging artwork was created in 1978 by the Italian artist Fanna Roncoroni. It is a multiple of 1000 pieces numbered and signed by the author. The title is "Labirinto", translat...

This vase is in the Style of Venini vases. It has been made circa 1970 in Italy. The venitian colors are green and yellow.

These three bowls made in Sweden with precision handcraft gives a nice edition to any living room with intention to give an organic simple, but jet complex look. The signs of the woo...

Vintage bottle with floral decorations realized by a european manufacture in 1970s. Very good condition.

Rectangular frame with oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel with two-tone stripes on guillochè and hand engravings. External dimensions cm...

This wall clock was produced by Elektročas ( former Pragotron ) in Czech Republic during the 1990s - 2000s It features a blue metal frame, a plastic dial, an aluminium hands and a cl...