1960s Decorative Objects

One of Japan's most recognised manufacturers of mid-century glass is Iwatsu Glass Co, a company who produced an outstanding amount of incredible pieces predominantly bound for the We...

Sébastien Tamari (French, 1900-1991) 1900 Birth in Baku of Sébastien Tamari (Russian Empire). 1920 He left his hometown due to political events. He travelled through the Caucas...

Giovanni 'John' Bucci (Italian-American, 1935-2019) A welded metal sculpture composed of various found metal pieces, 1960s. 17 inches wide by 18 ¼ inches tall by 8 inches deep

Carl Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand. Ceramic vase in a rare form with brownish-green tones. From the 1960s. Marked. In excellent condition. Second factory quality. Dimensions: H 8.5 cm...

A fantastic Aldo Londi Bitossi Italy vase imported by Rosenthal Netter. Rare green color. Hand impressed and hand painted glazed vessel in chartreuse, lime green, earthen brown and ...

Brutalist wall sculpture designed by Pia Manu (Jules Dewaele). This unique piece is made of concrete and a cast iron frame.

A lovely round papier mâché box that has been hand painted with a gold oak leaf design. The top has a finial. The interior and bottom are black. Circa 1960s, Kashmir, India.  

Vintage industrial table fan Made of metal and plastic Fully functional.

Lidded pot by Jens Quistgaard for Dansk. This piece produced in Denmark in the 1960s, features a copper pot and lid with brass handle details. Dimensions 10" diameter x 4" height. ...

An exquisite Mod. 1371 glass picture frame designed by Pietro Chiesa and produced by the Milanese company, Fontana Arte, c.1960. A simple brass fitting / back support couples the two...

This fabulous vintage double U-shaped abstract sculpture by the noted artist Mary Preminger is so modernist. It is polished chrome on a black marble original base. It was executed in...

A fine Lorenzo Burchiellaro vase with lid in hammered metal.

Monica Bratt. Art glass vase in dark red glass. Model: ”Hjortron” (Cloudberry). Handmade. From the 1960s/1970s. Perfect condition. Dimensions: D 12.0 cm x H 12.0 cm.

- Made in Czechoslovakia - Made of glass - Re-polished - Has some signs use - Good, original condition.

1960s Belgian Glass Jar Boussu Belgium with spoon 3.75 h x 2.25 diameter Stamped by maker. Preowned original vintage condition See all images provided.

1960s Bowie Brutalist work composed of patinated steel rods and braze welded masonry nails with gilt decoration which fan out to create a free-form / moving sculpture...

Desk organizer highly decorated and colorful tooled leather. Cloth interior. Marked Made in Italy.

Murano Glass Bowl - Sommerso Glass Decorative Charming vintage bowl in pink and clear “Sommerso” Murano glass, in the shape of a clover. The thick glass, skillfully handmade in Ital...

Royal Copenhagen porcelain figurine of a royal Danish guardsman. Model 776. Dating: 1964 Marked. First factory quality. Perfect condition. Dimensions: Height 27.5 cm x Diameter 8.0 cm.

Christo and More SMS A Collection of Multiples 'William N. Copley, 1968' S.M.S. is an art collection in a box that was available by subscription in 1968. Through February and December, subscribers were mailed six issues containing assorted works of art curated by William N. Copley. The portfolios consist of “original reproductions" by 73 artists including William Copley, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Kosuth, Walter de Maria, Yoko Ono, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Artschwager, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, John Cage, Terry Riley and more. S.M.S. included renowned and unknown artists side by side. As form of protest against galleries, S.M.S. made contemporary art affordable and accessible at a modest price of $125.00 per subscription. The portfolios are all kept in their original display covers. Edition of approximately 2,000 published by Letter Edged in Black Press. Volume No. 1 February 1968 Little Box of Earthquake and Cotton (cover), Irving Penn; Black Dress, James Lee Byars; Chicago Project…, Walter de Maria; My Country ‘Tis of Thee, Kasper Konig; Luggage Labels Nancy Reitkopf; Project for a Bridge, Sue Braden; A Postcard for Mother, Richard Hamilton; Two Propositions in Black, Le Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Store Front, Christo; Sol Mednick; Pharmaceuticals, Julian Levy. Volume No. 2 April 1968 Seven Minute Recording of Contapetrie, a surrealist word game (cover), Marcel Duchamp; The Mirror of Genoveva, Meret Oppenheim; Three Color Separations, Alain Jacquet; A Two-Year-Old Girl Choked to Death Today on an Easter Egg, Ray Johnson; A Proposed Comic Section for the New York Times, Bernard Pfreim; Farwell to Faust, George Reavey; Album, Clovis Trouille; Legal Tender, Bruce Conner; 10 collages, Marcia Hertscovitz; Cynocephalus & Co., Nicolas Calas. Volume No. 3 June 1968 Untitled abstract landscapes (cover), John Battan; Clouds, William Bryant (Bill Copley); Ode to London, Dick Higgens; Two Drawings, Ronnie Landfield; Bush in Hand, Roland Penrose; The Father of Mona Lisa, Man Ray, signed and numbered; Glove, Enrico Baj; Four Titled Abstracts, Joseph Kosuth; Correspondence, H.C. Westerman; Signal Flag Poem, Hannah Weiner; Poppy Nogoods All Night Flight, Terry Riley; Poems, Atograf. Volume No. 4 August 1968 Untitled (cover), Robert Stanley; Drift Study 4:37:4:05:09:50 5 VII 68, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Permanent Parking Decal, Robert Watts; 100 Year Calendar, On Kawara; Lichtenstein Hat, Roy Lichtenstein; Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) continued, John Cage; Phenakistiscope, Hollis Frampton...

Harry Moilanen (1931-1991) for Nuutajärvi Notsjö. Vase in dark blue and clear mouth-blown art glass. Finnish design. Dated 1963. Measures: 18.5 x 1...

Rare clear blue glass bowl designed for Fontana Arte, circa 1960. This beautiful glass bowl with its oval shape and gently rounded corners reflects the minimalist, elegant design of ...

Per Lütken for Holmegaard, Denmark. Two cylindrical art glass vases in blue glass. 1960s. Signed. In excellent condition with minimal signs of use. Tall: H 23.5 cm x D 6.0 cm. Short:...

1960s Bronze Brutalist panther sculpture on wood base.

This is a vintage ship's decanter. An English, cut crystal glass full bodied wine or spirit vessel, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960. Present your favourite spirits in thi...

An impressive wall dish by Jo Rowland France 1960s Atelier Sant Vicens Perpignan. Used as a dish or wall dish as you want... Primitive décor. Signed under. In good condition.

Vintage Midcentury Art Pottery Studio Hand Made Carved Handle Vase. Made in Spain, 1960's. Brutalist in style artisan made vase with grey underglaze and blues, oranges, yellow greeni...

Vintage Danish Glass Vases "Sapphire Blue" by Holmegaard. Set of 4. Beautiful set of Danish mid-century modern hand blown sapphire blue glass vases ...

Dynamic composition of curved and angled surfaces with lovely natural patina and warm, bronze tone. Signed.

Bitossi vase, ceramic, brown, dark yellow, orange and green stripes. Medium scale cylinder vase with glazed bands of color over a coarse chocolate brown raw clay body. Minute loss of...

Beautiful midcentury style Crystal Vase Heavy Crystal in very good condition, might show slight signes of years. Produced in Poland in 1960s.   

Elchinger, France. Two ceramic bowls with light-toned glaze. Hand-decorated. Spiral-shaped decoration. Ca. 1960. Marked. In excellent condition with natural craquelure. Dimensions: D...

Claude Viseux est un peintre, sculpteur et graveur aquafortiste et lithographe français né le 3 juillet 1927 à Champagne-sur-Oise et mort le 9 novembre 2008 à Anglet. 'est dans les années 1959-1960 que la sculpture de Claude Viseux, qualifiée de « protéiforme, onirique, fantastique » — ami de Max Ernst, Man Ray, Francis Ponge et Henri Michaux, il ne désavoue pas une parenté avec le Surréalisme9 — se substitue à la peinture, ses premières réalisations étant les objets trouvés en bord de mer qu'il pétrifie dans la cire10 d'une part, les empreintes de pierres et d'algues coulées en bronze d'autre part. En 1960, il signe le Manifeste des 121 titré « Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la guerre d’Algérie ». En 1961, ses expérimentations s'orientent vers les corps organiques, notamment avec sa série Ostéales constituée d'assemblages d'os fossilisés qu'il patine ou au contraire décape, qu'il visse, scie, assemble et plastifie. Les Concrétudes ou Coulées directes qui suivent en 1961-1962 sont obtenues à partir de coulées de métal en fusion dans le sable, générant des reliefs qu'il soude sur des plaques d'acier. Il va cependant adopter rapidement l'acier inoxydable — qu'il est avec Pol Bury parmi les premiers à employer en sculpture — comme matériau de prédilection. « Il assemble divers rebus industriels — tuyaux, écrous, boulons, cuves… — pour créer des sculptures à mi-chemin du mécanique et du biologique » restitue ainsi Sophie Serra11. Claude Viseux, qui fréquente alors Jean Tinguely, Piotr Kowalski, Michel Guino, Takis et César, confirme : « Ma récupération de l'élément industriel s'élargit vers les aciers spéciaux, avec un essai de vocabulaire formel : des barres, des profilés, des sphères, des rotules, des fonds de cuves, des chambres à combustion de Boeing, des tubulures, des soupapes de navire »9. « L'artiste entre au cœur de la réalité industrielle, prospecte dans les chaînes de montage de Renault et rôde dans les terrains vaques autour des usines », restitue donc l'encyclopédie Les Muses : « il récupère ferrailles, pièces détachées, débris de voitures, vieux châssis, toute une série d'éléments devenus inutiles. Ils les assemblent, tels quels, sans les modifier. Des créatures agressives ou pathétiques vont surgir de ce combat physique et dialectique que l'artiste livre avec la matière et entrer dans le domaine d'une poétique étrange, surnaturelle5 ». Dans les années 1967-1970, Les « structures actives » en acier inoxydable procèdent ainsi de la production industrielle de série. Elles se répartissent en familles de formes combinatoires composées par addition, soustraction, multiplication, division. Il confirme : « le monde industriel est ma nature, mon bouillon de culture, où je cherche des corps, des familles de corps, des genres, des espèces, dans un aller-retour de l'artificiel au naturel pour confondre les règnes, pour en inventer d'autres selon une géométrie organique qui féconde les différents types de structures, qui aménage la forme concernée par la forme à venir »9. En 1968, Claude Viseux s'installe à la villa Baudran à Arcueil, atelier qu'il conservera jusqu'en 1992. Si des corps imaginaires naissent ainsi des pièces mécaniques que Claude Viseux emprunte à l'automobile, à l'avion et au bateau, en 1972, « la symétrie de ces formes pures en inox », constate Lydia Harambourg, « l'amène à s'interroger sur la notion d'équilibre instable »12. Ses Instables sont de la sorte exposés à la Biennale de Venise en 1972 où, rappelle encore Lydia Harambourg, une salle entière est consacrée « aux dessins qui reprennent son vocabulaire mécanique identitaire de sphères, toupies, hélices, anneaux, astrolabes et balanciers »12. Les Instables sont de même, en 1973, présentés à la galerie Le Point cardinal à Paris où Claude Viseux avait déjà exposé en 1968 avec Henri Michaux et Joaquin Ferrer...

XL Mid century earthenware/ceramic planter made in Germany. Brtualist design vase for large bracnhes, flowers or peacock feather (like they used to do in the past) Very decorative ...

Vintage goose basket. Vintage woven wood lidded hamper painted blue with three be-ribboned white geese on parade against marine blue background. Handled f...

A must have for that MCM post and beam! A wonderful indoor small run-production wall thermometer gauge, with enamel on metal artwork attributed to Cha...

Bitossi box, ceramic, applied discs, blue, purple, white, brown, signed. The lid is a coarse dark chocolate clay decorated with rows of applied glazed discs in violet (purple) and bl...

We offer this Brazilian Jacaranda wood tray designed by Jean Gillon, circa 1960. Excellent vintage condition, very minor scratches on underside consistent with age and use. Includes ...

1960s stylized cat sculpture, possibly created by Livio Seguso of Murano, Italy. Sculpture measures: 12.5" hight by 7" wide and 3.75" deep. Unsigned. In very good vintage 1960s condi...

Walnut Toned Decorative Candle Stick Holder. Atomic Design. Circa 1960s- 1970s. Possibly Teak. The Inner Metal Piece is missing from one of the Holders as Shown. Vintage Condition Co...

Heidi Fournier for Kähler, Denmark. Large ceramic bowl. Floral motifs on a cream-coloured base. Approximately from the 1960s. In perfect condition with natural crackling from produc...

Spectacular Baroque Revival Walnut wood polished painted large box with domed cover.

Organically shaped Murano bowl in polychrome mouth-blown art glass with wavy edge. Italian design, 1960s. Measures: 20 x 6 cm In excellent condition.

Tobia Scarpa Battuto Vase for Venini, model no. 8067, blown glass with acid frosted surface, engraved 'venini italia' Dimensions: 12.25" high 7.2...

Large centerpiece sized shallow bowl by Ugo Zaccagnini circa 1960. The bowl is made by pressing in cord and sgraffito design over an rough aged clay surface. The finish on the bo...

Bitossi box, ceramic, blue, green, white stripes, signed. Small scale colorful lidded box decorated with a tight hard edge pattern of blue, green and white stripes...

A steel and epoxy 'Owl' sculpture on white pedestal base by Edward Higgins (1930 - 2006), signed and dated 1960. Higgins was born in Gaffney, South C...

Pair of Murano Sommerso faceted glass vases, attributed to Alessandro Mandruzzato, made in the 1960's. The bigger one is blue, measures 20 ...

This large vintage Murano glass sculpture is a mid-century Italian craftsmanship that takes the elegant form of a stylised fish. Hand-blown in the 1960s, it features a fluid, abstrac...

This set of 20 chrome plated plug-in system candle holders from the German manufacturer Hammonia-Motard was designed in the 1960s. This iconic candleho...

Monica Bratt for Reijmyre, Sweden. Large watering can in mouth-blown burgundy art glass. From the 1960s/1970s. Perfect condition. Dimensions: H 27.2...

One of Japan's most recognised manufacturers of mid-century glass is Sanyu Glass (full name Sanyu Glass Factory Ltd), a company who produced an outstanding...

Antonio da Ros Signed Cenedese Murano glass vase circa 1960s factory signed in script on the bottom. The vase is circa 1960s. Multi layer blue e...

Signed William Bowie welded spire abstract metal gilded with both gold and silver leaf on teak base, circa 1960. This piece is unusual as most of Bowie's pieces are wall-mounted form...

John Deacons Presse-papiers Millefiori with Yellow and White, 1960 Beautiful paperweight large white yellow 1960 by John Deacons. Glass paperweight. A paperweight is an object that...

Murano Glass - Table Decorative - Sculptural Accent Iridescent Uranium technique Many are the different types of glass created by master makers on the Venetian island of Murano. Fr...

Greenlandica, figure of a walrus made of soapstone. Approximately 1960/1970s. In good condition, signs of use. Dimensions: L 12.5 x D 4.0 x H 8.0 cm.

Elegant Italian Murano glass bowl in amber with gold rifiniture, in very excellent original condition, circa 1960s. The bowl measures: 4.72 inch high, by 10.63 inches diameter.