1990s Decorative Objects

This exceptional Frank Lloyd Wright furniture set by Cassina combines the Meyer May writing desk and 614 Coonley 2 chair with the 624 Aurora sideboard, bringing together three archit...

Huge, one of a kind acrylic resin skull. Mounted to a light box and base with handles for moving. There is a cavity inside the skull in which a light can ...

Set of 6 "Balloton" glasses and jug in blown Murano glass in light blue color with 24-karat gold leaf decoration This set is called "Goti De Fornasa"....

A refined bronze sculpture by Dutch artist Francine Govers, created in the 1990s. The work depicts a standing female torso, reduced to its essential form and rendered with a calm yet...

Italian Murano glass biomorphic spiral sculpture crafted during the nineteen nineties showcases fluid, kinetic Venetian postmodern decorative art design by Giovanni Dalla Fina. Handc...

Outstanding giraffe sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting. The price is for 1 item .

Beautiful pair of postmodern marble bookends from Italy. These sizeable pieces of marble are captivating as they are commanding. The veining that develops on the green marble with gr...

Twenty-seven woods for a Chinese artificial flower vase alpha by Ettore Sottsass, edited by Design Gallery Milano, 1995. Limited edition of 12 signed and numbered pieces, number ...

2 Modern Swedish Åhus glass paperweights. The signed paperweights are frosted glass with colorful interior and frosted glass surface. The larger pie...

This exquisite Vintage Maitland-Smith Egyptian Revival Tessellated Marble Inkwell is an impressive piece of craftsmanship that seamlessly blends function with artistic beauty. Its de...

Alfredo Barbini for Murano Submerged Glass Vase with Original Label 1990s A refined Murano glass vase by Alfredo Barbini, dating to the 1990s and retaining its original label, an el...

Offered is a striking Benin bronze head from the 1990s, crafted in the traditional style of the historic Kingdom of Benin (modern-day Nigeria), inter...

This extraordinary, almost life-sized motorcycle sculpture made of rattan, wicker, and bamboo is attributed to the British designer Tom Dixon and was probably created in connection w...

A striking and highly expressive unique stoneware vase by the renowned Swedish ceramicist Rolf Palm (1930–2018). Hand-thrown at his studio in Mölle in 1991, this elegant cabinet-size...

This is a small vintage spiral motif posy vase. A Scottish, art glass flower sleeve, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1990. Attractive blown glass with superb colour Displays ...

Rectangular box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with hand-engraved and enamelled Arab-style ornament. Dimensio...

Medium Rectangular Murano Glass Box – Space and Beauty in a Single Object Elegant and spacious, this large rectangular Murano glass box is the perfect choice for those looking for a ...

Pair of lidded urns in white-glazed porcelain by KPM Berlin, with ribbon handles and draped festoons on the body. The conical, slightly bulbous vessels feature a central cartouche. T...

Toots Zinsky Chiacchiera Venini vase, Italy, 1990. Incamiciato glass with applied threading Incised signature to underside: Zinsky x Venini 90. Signed wit...

The "Perles" candlesticks reveal all the poetry that André Dubreuil knew how to breathe into metal. Nicknamed the Poet of Iron, he transformed a raw, rigid material into forms that s...

A very fine studio glass paperweight by Chris Buzzini. With a lampwork orchid (including the roots). With a signature cane to the reverse of the ro...

An exceptional, fine and impressive Spanish silver presentation car model on plinth; an addition to our diverse silver ornaments collection. This exceptional, fine and impressive co...

A footed bucchero ceramic vessel designed by Gio Ponti and produced by Costantino for the Neoponti collection. The flared upper body is cut with a deep V-notch at the rim, drawing in...

A black bucchero ceramic vessel designed by Gio Ponti, produced by Costantino for the Neoponti collection, Italy, 1997. A deep V-notch cuts into the rim of the sharply flared upper b...

A swan-necked jug in black bucchero ceramic designed by Gio Ponti, produced by Costantino for the 1997 Neoponti collection, Italy. The neck rises in a long flattened curve from a low...

A two-handled amphora in black bucchero ceramic, designed by Gio Ponti and produced by Neoponti/Costantino, Italy, 1997. A long tapering neck opens to a flared trumpet rim, flanked b...

A squat jug in black bucchero ceramic designed by Gio Ponti, produced by Costantino for the Neoponti collection. The wide low body rises to a faceted rim that extends into a long, na...

A tripod pitcher in black bucchero ceramic designed by Gio Ponti, produced by Costantino for the Neoponti collection. A nearly spherical body sits on three tapered cylindrical legs, ...

A twin-necked bucchero ceramic vessel designed by Gio Ponti and produced by Costantino for the Neoponti collection, Italy, 1997. Two tapering cylindrical spouts rise from a spherical...

A set of six black bucchero ceramic vessels designed by Gio Ponti and produced by Costantino for the Neoponti collection, Italy, 1997 — one example of each form in the series. A two-...

Kiyomi Iwata is a Japanese-American Textile Artist known for her Sculptural use of materials examples of her work can be found in a number of Museums including the Smithsonian.

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...

Multi-dimensional industrial style welded steel sculpture by Philadelphia based artist David Tothero. This piece has strong graphic and textural imagery ...

Hallmarked in London in 1995 by C. J. Vander, this charming pair of Elizabeth II period, Sterling Silver Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Models, are handsomely cast. The models measure...

Giacinto Cerone (1957–2004) was a fiercely independent Italian sculptor, uninfluenced by schools, movements, or trends. Born in Melfi, he moved to Rome in the 1980s, where he began a...

An exceptional female dress form, beautifully preserving the classic contours and utilitarian elegance of mid-century design. This antique mannequin features a beautifully structured...

Spiral sculpture constructed of acrylic (lucite), brushed brass and metal by noted artist Shlomi Haziza. Ribbons of violet and gold acrylic along with brass spiral up from an acryli...

An exceptional and highly glamorous late 20th-century hand-blown Murano glass vase, meticulously crafted by the world-renowned studio Barovier & Toso circa 1990s. This monumental pi...

Superb and extremely rare limited edition Memphis mid-century design blue cement, beaver hair and plexiglas mantel clock by Hilton McConnico for Lanvin, manufactured by Hour Lavigne ...

high decorative champagner bowl attribute by Philippe Starck for Alessi. The bowl is in a good used condition with small signs of use and age.

Matthew Burton ceramic abstract shell. Oversized and somewhat deconstructed design sculpture dates to the early 1990s check out my other listing for another shell sculpture! This one...

Soviet Mstyora Firebird Lacquer Box Signed by V. Snyatkov, circa 1980 Large Soviet Russian Mstyora lacquer box depicting the Firebird, hand-painted and signed by V. Snyatkov, circa ...

Bowl for grapes with completely smooth with inside a crystal for the bunches of grapes. A branch with grapes and leaves is welded on the edge, again in solid silver made with the fus...

1990s Marquis Waterford Crystal Picture Frame Germany 10.63 h x 8.75 w x 2.75 d stamped Marquis Waterford Crystal Germany Preowned vintage condition Re...

A great find of a large almost clear quartz crystal that was custom mounted on special designed base after the original by (Gustave Miklos). The only ot...

Twenty-seven woods for a Chinese artificial flower vase A by Ettore Sottsass, edited by Design Gallery Milano, 1995. Limited edition of 12 signed and numered pieces, number 8 / 12. ...

2048 Holding Hands cast stone sculpture on acrylic base Produced by Austin Productions 1994

This striking studio pottery box by Dr. Sequoia Miller was created in the 1990s, a formative period before he shifted from full-time maker to one of the most important thinkers and c...

Gray smoked layered glass and polish chrome rotating sculpture by Kurt and Marsha Runstadler for Runstadler Studios. Signed @ 1990 Runstadler Studios 5/30 ...

Large vintage art glass vase features deep, jewel-like color palette and complex sculptural shape. The vase has ovoid silhouette with flattened sides, forming an elongated disk-shap...

A sculptural biomorphic bronze work by Dutch artist Jacob Hordijk, created in the 1990s. Defined by its fluid abstract form and richly developed green patina, the sculpture balances ...

Set of 4 Vintage 1992 Post Modern Geometric Layered Foam CanettiTelephones. New old stock in original box. Incredible complete set of FOUR 1992 PostModern Canetti Telephone Collec...

Studio ceramic planter by ceramicist, Deanna Nichols (b. 1942-2017, Missouri). Holding a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute (1965) and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Ca...

Striking and sculptural “Donut” vase from IKEA’s iconic Stockholm collection, executed in rich emerald green art glass. This substantial piece features a be...

A large massive bronze by the noted German born Israeli artist Tolla Inbar. Titled “Ambition” signed and dated 1998. It is numbered 5/9 although were not quite sure how many in this ...

Tall and highly decorative Post-Modern Murano Glass vase with lovely colors. Made in Italy, 1990s. Executed in thick, multi-colored Murano-Glass. Dimensions: H 11.82 in. (30 cm) W ...

For your consideration, 1997 Modern Blue and Green Fish Pottery Vase. Hand painted colorful fish design. Signed at bottom. M M 97. Dimensions: 8.75"...

Desk box designed by Dunhill. Beautiful decorative vintage desk box, created in Germany for Alfred Dunhill, back in the 1990. It was made up in shiny black leather with a discrete f...

Wir bieten eine wunderschöne kleine, handgeschnitzte Holzbox zum Verkauf an. Sie lässt sich ideal als Schmuckkästchen oder zur Aufbewahrung anderer Kleinteile verwenden. Zustand: Gu...

Set of red glasses with Millefiori murrina decoration. This set is called "Goti De Fornasa". Tradition wants that the Murano glass master with his emp...