1990s Decorative Objects

Handcrafted what sculpture made of solid wood. Amazing design an workmanship. Signed and dated.

Table clock in 800 silver and wood depicting polo game equipment. The bat and polo hat are part of the watch. The briar horseshoe has silver details on th...

Book Ends Wooden style acrylic Sculptures A Set Of 3 Decorative Figurines of Human Book Holders + Thinking Man Sculpture. Beautifully stylized a set of figurines...

True collectors dream. Iconic pair of rare gold leather platform shoes by Vivienne Westwood. These were made especially for the runway and are in a British size 9 There are a few ...

Very large female figure executed in grogged clay and decorated with slips. Albert Thiry and his wife Pyot founded their workshop in Vallauris in 1961. Their creation is distinguish...

Italian hand painted ceramic bird on branch, circa 1990s. In perfect conditions, a nice collectible decoration item.

A skilfully crafted piece of turned treen with an interesting silhouette. The piece opens into two sections leaving an interior space to prize, hide or store a treasure or two. There...

1992 Alaska Native Bentwood Box Spakwus Eagle Red and Black Native Nations Yellow Cedar signed appears as David R Moore dated art 92 August 10.75 x 5.38 d x 7.5 h Preowned vintage c...

Daniel Pollock organic modern carved wood stool or sculptural object hand carved out of pine wood. This is a very heavy piece and the imperfections only add to its charm and appeal. ...

Snuff Box noble coat of arms is in 925/1000 sterling silver. Snuff Box noble coat of arms has White fired enamels on guilloché and handpainted miniature of arabesques with noble coat...

1993 "Barrel Lift" Art Sculpture by TODT Alien Sci-Fi Dystopia Exhibit 72" TODT life-size art installation sculpture, titled Barrel Lift, 1993. One of a kind art sculpture by TODT. ...

A tall ceramic vase made by American studio potter Otto Heino (1915-2009) in the late year of his life in his studio in Ojai, California, 1999. Wheel thrown with intentional concentr...

Traditional Catalan Virgin "La Moreneta" Wooden Sculpture – Handmade in Catalonia, 1990, Authentic Religious Art Immerse yourself in the spiritual and artistic heritage of Catalonia...

Sculpture Guepard in solid bronze in black and silvered bronze finish, exceptional piece in limited Edition 1990. Real size, made by J.Carrera.

Murano glass heart vase by Maria Christina Hamel, 1990s, good original condition.

Sculptural ceramic vase made by the German-Swedish-Danish ceramist Richard Manz (1933-1999). The husband of the Danish ceramist Bodil Manz. The rustic al...

Murano glass heart vase by Maria Christina Hamel, 1990s, good original condition.

Elegant pair of gilt bronze dog sculptures. The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.

Larry Mohr is a well know American artist who's works are included in museum collections (see Provenance brochures). This amazing figural sculpture to resemble the University of Con...

Vintage blue and white porcelain vase Large cobalt vase Schumann Arzberg Germany High, floor Vase Made of porcelain known manufactory Schumann...

A fantastic, quite engaging Anagama art sculpture by American master potter/artist Peter Voulkos who is universally known for his abstract expressionist ceramic pottery pieces and sculptures. Voulkos often referred to these few, rare creations as his "dolls". They were typically constructed from scraps of clay cut from larger sculptures and combined into abstract expressionist figures loosely based on Japanese Haniwa figures...

Miniature in solid 800 silver reproducing D'Artagnan The miniature was made of solid silver with the fusion technique and subsequently finished with a chisel. The final finish was in natural, burnished silver and with 24kt gold details. Marble base By Geca Silversmith - MIlan - Italy for ARVAL ARGENTI VALENZA Silver statuette representing Charles de Batz-Castelmore, comte d'Artagnan. In 1630, aged about 20, he went to Paris to join the French Guards on the recommendation of a relative of his mother, the lord of Tréville, who also appears in Dumas' novels as his protector . It was at this time that the young Charles decided to adopt the surname d'Artagnan, that of his mother's family. The paternal branch in fact belonged to the bourgeoisie, and Charles preferred to use the surname that would have given him more prestige. Thus it was that the royal d'Artagnan did 15 years of military service until Cardinal Mazarin...

Set of 3 Brutalist chrome foil cylinder planters with a chrome foil finish and black plastic caps by H.U.D.D.L.E. OF Los Angeles. Measures: Large: 40" W / 11" D Medium: 29" H / 10" ...

Brutalist Wooden Pot made from the trunk of a Palmtree, nice and warm patina of the Palmtree Wood, xl size, very decorative object to be used for differ...

This is a late 20th century handblown Murano vase by Barovier and Toso. This large vase has a ribbed heavy pink glass at the top and stands on three swirling feet with 22carat gold f...

Amazing and fabulous very rare Italian handmade and blown bottle in light blue color glass with stopper, from the “Velati” series designed and produ...

"The Three Graces" sculpture by Erté made with cold-painted bronze depicting three beautiful ladies with graceful wear in different blue tones. Signe...

Ron Arad, limited sculpture in the way of a tube of paint. Massive metal, with the original cardboard box, packing material in the box is popcorn. Edition Lippert, Wilkens Partner fr...

Very beautiful, signed Satellite Bottle in changing colors: grey, brown, green, gold, blue, petrol... Red and yellow spots. Bertil Vallien Vallien is the son of the painter and pr...

Pair of sterling silver candelabra with three lights. The structure has been realized by a smooth sheet of silver. The wave movement is realized with manufacturing by handmade. On the top three rounds candle-holders are placed to complete the object This modern style is suitable both for a house with minimalist furniture and in a baroque or empire style home, to lighten the visual impact and to stand out particularly from the dominant style. Italian silverware...

An elegant and vibrant figurative glass sculpture with a unique ombre effect of aqua to green to a golden color titled “Eléonore” designed b...

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...

Elegantly crafted and signed by renowned artist D. Okin, the "Family Embrace" Marble Sculpture captures the essence of familial love and unity. This striking black sculpture depicts ...

Tony Rosenthal Monumental "Mandala" Variation 1994. Painted wood half circles bolted together with metal base. Signed on metal base Tony Rosenthal Born August 9, 1914, in Highland Pa...

Gorgeous vintage 1992 Modern purple & teal swirled pottery overscale bottle or floor vessel artist signed. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that this...

Scultura, Torso femminile, arte classica, arte greca, Torso, marmo bianco Carrara, scultura classica, torso antico Torso femminile con toga scolpito su bellissimo marmo bianco di Car...

Beautiful E Waterford marquis green crystal vase, in the Rumba pattern. Nearly 10" tall and almost 5 lbs Beautiful green inside and clear bottom. Top-q...

Beautiful and graphic oval glass art bowl by Rosenthal. This beautiful piece from the late 90s is graphic and detailed. It shares yellow and amber tones along with a smoke purple ton...

Hand carved bust of Shakespeare's Desdemona, Othello's wife, in black Belgian marble and brown limestone.

Striped Vase in blown Murano Glass Green Orange and light blue, 1990s Italy. This is a unique striped vase, with double colored sides, and stripes inside the blown technical. Half si...

Outstanding large giraffe sculpture . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.

Pair of Lucite Sculptural Circles in the style of Charles Hollis Jones. Nice colors of purples and blues. Spheres are highly polished and in nice shape. They are dated and signed,...

Harry Winston Ring Box. Period: Late 20th century Material: Blue leather exterior, dual compartments with white satin and velvet interior Purpose: Designed for presenting and stor...

Another wonderful marble sculpture with an intriguing provenance. Unsigned. Part of a series by Paul Jencik, circa 1998-2001. This ‘totemic head’ sculpture is carved from a single block of marble in a snowy white. It’s the remaining head from a much larger totemic sculpture, the base now lost. This figurative face can be interpreted in many ways. Jencik references human, animal and natural forms but never quite allows us to reach a conclusion about the origins of his creations. Jencik was a welder, boat builder and metal worker with a strong creative instinct but without the opportunity or artistic training that would afford his work any recognition. He created a large series of marble and timber sculptures...

Rectangular/octagonal table box in 925 silver. The box was completely handmade in Florence at the end of the last century. Engraved with floral and abstract motifs, it has been fin...

Scandinavian Modern sculptural Arango clear art glass savoy vase designed by Alvar Aalto for Iittala, made in Finland. This is a beautiful handmade iconic piece from the 1990s. Foil...

Victor Gutierrez (Mexican, born 1950). A limited edition cold painted bronze statue. A figural work produced in a modern style depicting a seated fema...

This fabulous signed Christofle 3-tiered silver-plate box, desk accessory, cocktail table addition and or barware, serving piece cantilevers out. It was designed by KT Studio in 1998...

1990s pair of bronze standing lions with open mouths.

Julius Caesar sculpture, Caesar head sculpture, Sculpture, Male head, classical art, Greek art, Julius Caesar art , white Carrara marble, classical sculpture, Portrait head of Juliu...

Designed by Fulvio Bianconi for Venini Blown handmade vase with colored inserts Transparent blown glass can either be clear or colored by the addition of small quantities of metal ox...

A stone relief of a dancing goddess, crafted in Thailand, late 20th Century. Hand-carved from a solid piece of amber-colored sandstone. 26.5 inches high, 3 inches deep, 12 inches w...

Contemporary objects by Belgian artist Tjok Dessauvage (b.1948).  

Dynamic and abstract sculpture of a wagon jack constructed out of wood and metal by Janet Sullivan Turner (1935–2008). The work was acquired from the estate of the artist...

African hand carved soapstone vase.

A monumental Italian bust of David sculpture designed by Stone International in 1992. Crafted from metal with a plaster finish, this piece is a...

Italian Murano Glass Artistic Sculpture Attributed to Tagliapietra, 1990s. This is an amazing sculpture realized with transparent Murano glass and ...

Beautiful deep blue and green colored Murano glass object. Fabricated by Stefano Toso in the 90's, Venetia Italy. This stunning rectangle glass item has been hand-blown with traditional techniques dating back to the 13th century. It is in very good condition, just one tiny chip on the brim of the back side (see picture). It is originally marked with "S Toso...