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Place of Origin: Italian
Midcentury Picture Frame in Wood, Chrome & Glass Willy Rizzo Style, Italy 1960s
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury beautiful rectangular picture frame in wood, chrome and glass in the style of Willy Rizzo. Made in Italy in the 1960s.
Category

1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Metal, Steel, Chrome

Small Picture Frame Round English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small round frame with flat edge in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External diameter cm. 7.2, internal c...
Category

1950s Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver, Enamel

Sterling Silver Argento SC Italian Textured Photo Frame
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Sterling Silver Argento SC Italian Photo Frame. Luxury Argento SC hammered sterling silver picture frame. Dual easel for portrait and landscape tabletop display. Crocodile textured c...
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Late 20th Century Post-Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver

Collection of Italian Florentine Gilt Trays and Art Frames Circa 1950's
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Great grouping of gold gilt frames and 2 small trays from Italy. Can be used in a grouping as part of a gallery wall or certainly stand alone. The trays are perfect for trinkets as w...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Giltwood, Paint

19th Century Florentine Frame With Gold Leaf
Located in Austin, TX
Evoking the lavish opulence of the 19th century, this Florentine Frame stands as a testament to the magnificence of the period's decorative arts. Its confident gold leaf application ...
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19th Century Antique Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Giltwood

Small Picture Frame Rounded Round English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small rounded round frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External diameter 7 cm, internal 5 cm. Weigh...
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1950s Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver, Enamel

Collection of Four Italian 1950's Florentine Gilt Mirrors
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Great grouping of Florentine gilt mirrors from Italy. This charming mirror collection includes three wooden and one resin. Can be used in a grou...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Giltwood, Paint

Mid Century Montagnani Italy Metal and Walnut Wood Picture Frame
By Montagnani
Located in Atlanta, GA
Montagnani Firenze, Italy, crafted this elegant picture photo frame in the 1970s. Its Mid-Century modernist design boasts a rectangular shape, with burl walnut wood geometric veneer ...
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Metal, Brass, Aluminum

Small shaped Picture Frame 2 oval portrait Blue Navy color enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small shaped frame for 2 oval photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche in Art Nouveau style. External dimensions cm. 5.2 x 7 int...
Category

1980s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate

2010 Modern Italian Rose Pink Crystal Twisted Murano Glass Brass Picture Frame
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
A sophisticated Venetian modern design vertical photo frame in thick blown Murano glass worked in a hot plush pink color, overlayed in crystal. The elegant texture of the tightly twi...
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2010s Mid-Century Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Italy Early 19th Century Neoclassical Rectangular Wood Frame
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an elegant wood frame, lacquered in mat gold. The thick hand carved border also is lacquered in gold. The frame has the look of the past and shows all the signs of the age, ...
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Early 19th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Louis XVI White Photo Frame Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of a garland of flowers with oval border interna...
Category

1970s Empire Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver, Enamel

Small shaped Picture Frame Four-leaf clover turquoise Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Four-leaf clover shaped frame for oval photo in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent turquoise fired enamel on guilloche, modern contemporary style. External cm. 8.5...
Category

1960s Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Italian Picture Frame in gilded aluminum and Faux Burl Formica By Mascagni, 70s
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Roma, IT
We offer for sale a Picture Frame whose production is attributable to the Umberto Mascagni brand. Made in Italy, as attested by the engraving on the gilded aluminum support, undoubte...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Aluminum

Very Large Vintage Picture Frame in Lucite Faux Tortoiseshell, Italy, 70s
Located in Roma, IT
We offer you a stunning picture frame that fully expresses the glamorous and super chic European style of the 70s. Made in Italy, this really large picture frame is perfect for holdi...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Lucite, Plexiglass

Luxury Photo Frame, Silver with gold bath, marble , Reflection Noir
By Laura G Art with Heart
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Reflection noir is an italian gold silver floral double photo frame with black marble, a jewel photo frame signed Laura G Art with Heart. It is hand...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Arts and Crafts Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Stone, Silver

Small shaped Picture Frame Four-leaf clover lilac Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Four-leaf clover shaped frame for oval photo in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent lilac fired enamel on guilloche, modern contemporary style. External cm. 8.5 x 8...
Category

1960s Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate

Medea Picture Frame in Cream-colored Lacquered Wood & Corno Italiano, Mod. 5315c
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
Blending mindful design with divine texture, the Medea picture frame is crafted from lacquered wood with cream-colored gloss finish. Natural tiles in Corno Italiano with gentle nuances and veins, add an opulent touch to this design. Available in two different sizes, this frame is the perfect luxury decor...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Italian Photo Frame Black and White Plexi , Sharing Black
By Laura G Art with Heart
Located in Sarezzo, IT
The photo frame Sharing black is a square modern design frame of Art with Heart collection recto verso by Laura G Italy. It is realized in artistic plexiglass black and white, with g...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Plexiglass

An Italian Mirror Frame or Picture Frame, in the Dutch Style, C. 1940.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This difficult to find, large square frame will be perfect for your painting or statement mirror. With the traditional Dutch style ripple carvings and beautiful inlay, it will surely...
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Wood

Picture Frame oval photos French Empire Napoleon III style Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche and hand-painted miniature of a garland of flowers with oval border, intern...
Category

1970s Empire Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Luxury Silver Floral Double Photo Frame, Reflection
By Laura G Art with Heart
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Reflection is gilded silver floral double photo frame with aventurine stone, a jewel photo frame signed Laura G Art with Heart. It is handcrafted in...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Arts and Crafts Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Stone, Silver

Ico Parisi Italian Design Object Ashtray for Stildomuselezione
By Ico Parisi
Located in Chicago, IL
A rosewood and walnut posacenere or ashtray model 1402 designed by Ico Parisi for Stildomuselezione, circa 1959. Ashtray 5" diameter x 2.75" height. Pictured in the Ice Parisi book...
Category

1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Rosewood, Walnut

Italian Red Burgundy Suede and Snakeskin Picture Frame, circa 1970s
Located in New York, NY
A '70s Modern Italian red burgundy suede and snakeskin picture frame, circa 1970s, Italy. Frame can sit in two positions; vertical (as shown) o...
Category

1970s Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Animal Skin, Suede

Gabriella Crespi Half Moon Picture Frames Mirrors
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A nice pair of brushed Steel picture frames (or mirrors) Designed by Gabriella Crespi, engraved signature Left and right. Price is for the pair
Category

1970s Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Steel

Antique Lover's Folio, Italian Walnut, Decorative, Grand Tour, Sleeve, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique lover's folio. An Italian, walnut and fruitwood decorative Grand Tour sleeve, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Deli...
Category

Late 19th Century Grand Tour Antique Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Walnut

Crespi Style Photo Frame in Lucite Tortoiseshell, Italy, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gorgeous photo frame in lucite with a stunning tortoiseshell effect. This elegant piece was produced in Italy in the 1970s and attributable to Gabriella Crespi. This stunning piec...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Lucite, Plexiglass

Italian Photo Frame Handmade Wood, Double Heart
By Laura G Art with Heart
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Double Heart is a unique arge Italian hand crafted wood double photo frame by sculptor Massimo Pasini. Wood is a very warm material and it is very m...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Wood

Photo frame in decorated crystal and Brass Italian Design, 1970s
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Photo frame in decorated crystal and brass Italian Design 1970s.
Category

1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Crystal, Brass

Picture Frame Green and pink enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table photo frame in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with translucent two-tone striped enamels fired on guilloche and hand-engraved ornaments. Late Empire Napoleon ...
Category

1970s Napoleon III Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Italian Handmade Photo Frame Black White Plexi, Otto Sharing Black
By Laura G Art with Heart
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing Otto back is a unique multiples edition of Art with Heart collection of pop recto-verso photo frames by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface is...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Plexiglass

Vintage Italian Brass Picture Frame 1980s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Vintage Italian Brass Picture Frame from the 1980s features a sleek, elegant design characteristic of the era. Made from high-quality bra...
Category

1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Picture Frame Red enamel Empire Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large octagonal table frame for round photos diameter cm. 7, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on sunburst guilloche, with Napoleon III French Empire style borders and ornaments. External cm. 17 x 17. Weight gr. 483. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1978 on the inspiration of previous artefacts from the early 1900s and manufactured in Florence at the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enameling firings at approximately 750 < 800° C. It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago. The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include: manufacturer's mark: 391FI metal mark fineness:925 Art Deco was also born in France and is the abbreviation of "Art Decoratif". With more decisive and geometric features than Art Nouveau, therefore more evident and "harder", with always contrasting and strong colours, Art Deco spread throughout the world, from Shanghai's China to the under construction New York and in various parts of Europe. Many artists and designers of the time dedicated themselves to the creation of drawings, paintings, objects for personal use and furniture, interior furnishings, entire buildings and skyscrapers, in this new style. Sandoz in Paris, Lalique with its crystals, Puiforcat with its silverware, Erté with its "ante litteram" fashion designs, Tiffany with its table lamps, Louis Cartier with its objects inspired by the Far East (hence the connection with Shanghai). Salimbeni was able to interpret and propose new objects inspired by Art Deco, in precious metals, semiprecious stones and fired enamels, when, exhibiting at jewelery exhibitions in the United States, and more precisely in New York, he made contact with Cartier buyers first, and also with Tiffany later, and for them he created objects in this style inspired by the original drawings of Louis Cartier, obtained from the buyer of the time, but with absolutely different and original designs and interpretations. Many of the objects produced by Salimbeni for Cartier in the United States had taken inspiration from famous Cartier objects belonging to famous people. An example of all is Mary Pickford's set consisting of a powder compact, cigarette case, pill case and evening handbag. 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

1970s Napoleon III Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver, Enamel

Midcentury Picture Frame Faux Tortoiseshell Lucite by Team Guzzini, Italy 1970s
By Christian Dior, Team Guzzini
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury beautiful picture frame in faux tortoiseshell lucite and brass details by Team Guzzini. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Perfect desk object or gift idea.
Category

1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Metal, Brass

2000's Amber Gold Twisted Murano Glass and Brass Photo Frame by Barovier e Toso
By Barovier
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
This beautiful vertical photo frame is purely in the vénitien glass manufacturing tradition.The technique used to get this rich twisted rope effect is called "torciglione" and requi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Italian Handcrafted Photo Frame with Ruby Enamels, Generosity Ruby
By Laura G Art with Heart
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Generosity Ruby is a unique golden silver handcrafted photo frame in Art Deco style of the collection Laura G Art with Heart from Italy. A colle...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Gold, Silver

Picture Frame Green with concave corner for oval photo Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table frame with concave corners for oval photo cm. 5.5 x 8.5 in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche, with French Empire Napo...
Category

1970s Napoleon III Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Mod. 1371 Glass Picture Frame by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte, Italy, c.1960
By Pietro Chiesa, Fontana Arte
Located in London, GB
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...
Category

1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Crystal, Brass

20thC Italian Venetian Glass Photograph Frame, Attributable To Venini c.1950
By Venini
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A beautiful glass mounted photograph frame attributable to the world renowned Venini in Venice, Italy. The twisted glass rope picture frame was manufactured around the middle of the ...
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20th Century Other Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Italian Modern Photo Frame in Silver , Equilibrium Silver
By Laura G Art with Heart
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Equilibrium silver is an Italian photo frame in silver 925 by Laura G “Art with Heart.” It is a very simple and modern photo frame and can be suitable to hold two photos, one front and one back. The piece has been designed same shape front and back, as my message is: our life images are to be saved in jewel photo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Silver

Picture Frame in Faux Tortoise Lucite, Italy
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
Art Deco style photo/picture frame in lucite faux tortoiseshell lucite with an S curved design. This piece seems to never have been used and appear as new. In very nice condition wit...
Category

1970s Art Deco Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Lucite, Plexiglass

Dorotea Picture Frame in Pebbled Leather & Corno Italiano, Mod. 4462
By Arcahorn Srl., Filippo Dini
Located in Recanati, Macerata
Whether it's for your own home decor or for a meaningful gift, our Dorotea picture frame is perfect for displaying the most beautiful photographic memories. Characterized by simple l...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

19th Century Italian Gilt Sterling Silver And Enamel Picture Frame
Located in Norwood, NJ
Antique (gilt) vermeil over sterling silver ornate picture frame with red and blue vitreous enamel, Italy, circa 1890. Has hallmark on front. Oval...
Category

Early 1900s Rococo Antique Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver

Large Aluminum and Brass Photo Frame, Italy, 1970s
Located in Palermo, IT
Large aluminum and brass photo frame, Italy, 1970s Typical design of those years. Intact. Small signs of the time.
Category

1970s Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Aluminum, Brass

Glass Photo Frame attributed to Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte, Italy, 1940s
By Fontana Arte, Pietro Chiesa
Located in Nicolosi, IT
Glass Photo Frame attributed to Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte, Italy, 1940s This Glass Photo Frame attributed to Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte, Italy, from the 1940s, is an elegant...
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1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Pair of Early 19th Century Art Antique Hunting Scenes on Concave Tin Plates 1850
Located in Encinitas, CA
Delightful pair of concave enameled tin plates with hunting scenes in frames of hand-wrought iron embossed with masks, mythological figures and fruit...
Category

Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Wrought Iron, Tin

Gucci Horsebit Picture Frame, Nickel, Signed
By Gucci
Located in New York, NY
Gucci Horsebit picture frame, nickel, signed. Stirrup form photo frame in polished nickel. The display opening is 5.63 inches in height by 5.75 inches wide. The four circular feet on...
Category

1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass, Nickel

Small Oval Antique Art Glass & Brass Micro Mosaic Picture Frame
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This small oval art glass and brass picture frame is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in Italy in approximately 1920. The frame is composed of a brass frame with art glass ca...
Category

Early 20th Century Arts and Crafts Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

2010 Modern Italian Gold Amber Crystal Twisted Murano Glass Brass Picture Frame
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
A sophisticated Venetian modern design vertical photo frame in thick blown Murano glass worked in a amber orange gold color, overlayed in crystal. The elegant texture of the tightly ...
Category

2010s Mid-Century Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Murano Dark Blue Photo Frame by Barovier e Toso - 3 Available
By Barovier&Toso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage picture frame with hand blown clear and dark blue Murano "Torciglione" glass border / Designed by Barovier e Toso circa 1960's / Original mark on frame / Made in Italy Measu...
Category

20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Murano Smoky Photo Frame by Barovier e Toso - 4 Available
By Barovier&Toso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage picture frame with hand blown clear and smoky Murano "Torciglione" glass border / Designed by Barovier e Toso circa 1960's / Original mark on frame / Made in Italy Measures:...
Category

20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Bamboo and Brass Picture Frame, Italy 1970s
Located in Naples, IT
Elegant brass and bamboo cane photo frame with rectangular shape.
Category

1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Dafne Picture Frame in Corno Italiano and Glossy Black Lacquered Wood, Mod. 871
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
The most distinctive way to display your treasured photo memories, Dafne picture frame is crafted from natural Corno Italiano and sports desirable white, cream, and brown nuances. Co...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Picture Frame in pure Florentine Renaissance style Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with painted fire enamels like lapis lazuli stone. Shaping taken from the tiles of the North Door of the Baptistery of the F...
Category

1980s Renaissance Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate

An orignal 1940s Murano glass and brass picture frame by Barovier and Toso
By Barovier&Toso
Located in London, GB
An orignal 1940s Murano glass picture frame by Barovier and Toso, with thick clear glass woven twist frame, with inner brass frame, top centre detailing and stand. Stamped on the bra...
Category

1940s Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Picture Frame Art Deco Chinese influence Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 silver with geometric design and fire-enameled with Chinese influence style. External cm. Internal 11.6 x 14.6 cm. 6 x 9. Weight gr. 194. Created in Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with high thickness plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enamelling firings at approximately 750° < 800° C. It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago. The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include: manufacturer's mark: 391FI metal mark fineness:925 Art Deco was also born in France and is the abbreviation of "Art Decoratif". With more decisive and geometric features than Art Nouveau, therefore more evident and "harder", with always contrasting and strong colours, Art Deco spread throughout the world, from Shanghai's China to the under construction New York and in various parts of Europe. Many artists and designers of the time dedicated themselves to the creation of drawings, paintings, objects for personal use and furniture, interior furnishings, entire buildings and skyscrapers, in this new style. Sandoz in Paris, Lalique with its crystals, Puiforcat with its silverware, Erté with its "ante litteram" fashion designs, Tiffany with its table lamps, Louis Cartier with its objects inspired by the Far East (hence the connection with Shanghai). Salimbeni was able to interpret and propose new objects inspired by Art Deco, in precious metals, semiprecious stones and fired enamels, when, exhibiting at jewelery exhibitions in the United States, and more precisely in New York, he made contact with Cartier buyers first, and also with Tiffany later, and for them he created objects in this style inspired by the original drawings of Louis Cartier, obtained from the buyer of the time, but with absolutely different and original designs and interpretations. Many of the objects produced by Salimbeni for Cartier in the United States had taken inspiration from famous Cartier objects belonging to famous people. An example of all is Mary Pickford's set consisting of a powder compact, cigarette case, pill case and evening handbag. 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

1980s Art Deco Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver, Enamel

Russian Empire Fabergè style Rectangular photo frame with 2 oval borders and orn
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with 2 oval borders internal size cm. 4 x 5.2 and ornaments with festoons a...
Category

1970s Other Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver, Enamel

Vintage Italian Sterling Silver Picture or Mirror Frame with Ornate Gothic Motif
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This vintage picture or mirror frame is signed by an unknown maker and presumed to have originated from Italy and date to approximately 1970 and done in a Gothic Revival style. The f...
Category

Mid-20th Century Gothic Revival Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Sterling Silver

Mid-Century Modern Brass Lucite Tortoiseshell Photo Frame, Italy, 1970s
Located in Nicolosi, IT
A quintessential example of 1970s Italian design, this striking photo frame combines rich tortoiseshell-effect bakelite with a clear Lucite insert. The frame (20 × 25 cm) with softly...
Category

1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Brass

Italian 18th Century Green and Cream Painted Wooden Rectangular Framed Mirror
Located in Atlanta, GA
This Italian green and cream painted wooden frame has been transformed into a stunning mirror, offering a perfect blend of rustic charm and timeless elegance. With its beautifully we...
Category

18th Century Antique Italian Picture Frames

Materials

Wood

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