Beaux Arts furniture included chairs replicating models from the Renaissance and sofas inspired by Louis XIV. These pieces filled high-ceilinged rooms that featured tapestries fit for a medieval castle and were illuminated by crystal chandeliers reminiscent of those in European palaces. Leon Marcotte Company created furnishings for the White House mimicking the style of Louis XVI, while in France, cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle reproduced 18th-century pieces that would influence his later Art Nouveau style.
Students at the École des Beaux-Arts in 19th-century Paris meticulously sketched Roman and Greek art and architecture as part of a curriculum that elevated the classical world. This reverence for history informed the architecture and design being constructed in the French capital and beyond, where columns and pediments were joined with elements referencing the Renaissance and Baroque eras, culminating in grand civic buildings such as the Palais Garnier opera house constructed under Napoleon III.
Beaux Arts style, also known as Classical Eclecticism for its flamboyant mixing of influences, made its way to the United States in the late 19th century through American architects who studied in Paris, like Richard Morris Hunt and Charles Follen McKim. They designed monumental turn-of-the-century buildings like train stations, libraries, museums and mansions that featured soaring entry halls and grand stairways with nearly every surface embellished, from mosaic floors to stained-glass ceilings. The luxurious interiors of these Beaux Arts buildings, which weren’t crowded with objects as in the Victorian era, matched this spirit of opulence and embraced the past.
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Sumptuous Tiffany Wine Cooler in Beaux-Arts Olympian Pattern
Located in New York, NY
Olympian sterling silver wine cooler. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Round with gently tapering sides and three reeded c-scroll handles with leaf mounts and caps. Foot ring with ...
Sterling Silver
Champagne Bottle Cover Zaffiro, Solid Silver, Hand Made, Luxury Gift, Italy 2025
Located in Firenze, IT
This champagne cover, along with the Emerald and Ruby editions, is a jewel designed to enrich your table. The artist transformed our pure silver 999/°° K-OVER into a precious treasu...
Silver
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Sumptuous Tiffany Wine Cooler in Beaux-Arts Olympian Pattern
By Tiffany & Co., F. Antoine Heller
Located in New York, NY
Olympian sterling silver wine cooler. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Each: Round with gently tapering sides and three reeded c-scroll handles with leaf mounts and caps. Foot ring...
Sterling Silver
Art Deco Style Square Wine Cooler Solid Silver
By Puiforcat
Located in Paris, FR
This champagne bucket is in the typical spirit of the Art Deco movement, with a square shape, and two geometric handles. Each bucket is made of solid silver and it will last forever....
Silver
English Sheffield Plated Wine Cooler / Table Centerpiece
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Early 20th century English Sheffield silver plated barware wine cooler / tableware centerpiece. Great vintage condition, minor wear consistent with age / use. Maker's mark undersigne...
Silver Plate, Copper
Arts & Crafts Style Sterling Silver Goblet
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English sterling silver goblet made by C F Hancock & Co in the Arts & Crafts style; an addition to our wine and drinks re...
Silver, Sterling Silver
Wine cooler for narrow wine bottles (alpaca) vienna around 1920s
Located in Wien, Au
Wine cooler for narrow wine bottles (alpaca) vienna around 1920s Only polished
Alpaca
Christofle, Paris, Champagne Bucket / Wine Cooler, Folio
By Christofle
Located in Bath, GB
A fine and very smart champagne bucket / wine cooler made by the top-notch French silversmith, Christofle of Paris. The design is "Folio" made in the 1980s, a modernist design with a nod to the Art Deco era a design that is most fashionable today. Excellent condition and looking like it has rarely been used. Spanning 10" handle to handle x 8" x 8 1/8" tall. Just back from our silversmith's workshop where it has been professionally cleaned and polished, restoring it to it's former glory. Beginning in 1830, when Charles Christofle...
Silver Plate
$850
H 10.82 in Dm 3.13 in
Art Deco Barware Silver Plate Cocktail Shaker Champagne Bottle Shape, circa 1930
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning French Art Deco silver plate cocktail shaker, designed by renowned silversmith Prudhomme in Paris, is a true masterpiece of both form and function. The piece was expert...
Silver Plate, Metal
Old English Sheffield Plate Regency Wine Cooler
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Old English Sheffield silver plate Regency style wine cooler / ice bucket .This exceptional Regency cooler retains the original detachable support frames, liners and push fit cover in a campana shape . It is made of silver on copper and fitted with an exceptional pair of decorative handles embellished with reeded decoration. It has a superb armorial engraving...
Silver Plate
$17,500 / set
H 1 in W 1 in D 1 in
Olympian, Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Flatware Set 12 Service 53 Pieces Dinner
Located in Big Bend, WI
Superb Olympian by Tiffany & Co. sterling silver flatware set, 53 pieces. This set includes: 12 large dinner size knives with stainless blunt blades, 10 1/4" 12 dinner size forks, 7...
Sterling Silver
Large French Vintage Silver Plate Wine Champagne Bucket Cooler
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Large champagne and wine cooler bucket from the early 1900's featuring charming center medallions on three sides, in the style with Rococo decorations. As seen throughout Europe this...
Metal, Silver Plate
Sterling Silver Penguin Champagne Bottle Holder
Located in Milan, IT
This is a sterling silver champagne bottle holder playfully modeled after a penguin. Its true-to-life quality is remarkable and makes it a very...
Sterling Silver
English Sheffield Plated Barware Wine Cooler
Located in Tarry Town, NY
English Sheffield silver plated wine cooler / ice bucket with removable insert and lion head design details handle. Maker’s mark on bottom. The bucket is in good vintage condition wi...
Silver Plate
Baccarat Crystal Barware / Tableware Wine Cooler
By Baccarat
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Beautifully hand crafted baccarat crystal barware / tableware champagne bucket or wine cooler with gilt bronze side handles. The cooler is in ...
Crystal, Bronze
K-OVER Champagne, THE KISS, silver 999/°, Italy
Located in Firenze, IT
THE KISS : Our K-OVERs, are alternatives to the champagne bucket and the more common glacette. The precious metal that holds the bottle is coated internally with a thermal fabric th...
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, RUBY, silver 999/°, Italy
Located in Firenze, IT
RUBY : Our K-OVERs, are alternatives to the champagne bucket and the more common glacette. The precious metal that holds the bottle is coated internally with a thermal fabric that m...
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, WOOD IN AUTUMN, argento 999/°°, Italia
Located in Firenze, IT
BOSCO D'AUTUNNO : Le nostre K-OVER, sono alternative al secchiello champagne e alla più comune glacette. Il metallo prezioso che custodisce la bottiglia è rivestito internamente di ...
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, DIEGO, silver 999/°°, Italy
Located in Firenze, IT
DIEGO : Our K-OVERs, are alternatives to the champagne bucket and the more common glacette. The precious metal that holds the bottle is coated internally with a thermal fabric that ...
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, EMERALD, silver 999/°, Italy
Located in Firenze, IT
EMERALD : Our K-OVERs, are alternatives to the champagne bucket and the more common glacette. The precious metal that holds the bottle is coated internally with a thermal fabric tha...
Silver
Rare Luxurious 24 Piece Baccarat Colbert Stemware Service for Eight
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
Colbert is one of Baccarat's most luxurious and important patterns, pairing well with the Tzar and Lagny patterns and created for the most discerning clientelle. The body of each goblet is hand cut with a elegant, complex series of spires reminiscent of the Eiffel Tower. Each glass is of substantial weight required for such superb decoration, subtly flared at the six sided stem with a well balanced facet cut knob at the base and round foot with a sunburst cut base. A pleasure to enjoy with fine wine and champagne. The Colbert service was created circa 1908 and has been out of production for many years. This pattern was apparently popular with Baccarat's Imperial Russian clientelle at the beginning of the 1900's. In 1912, a freighter bound for Saint Petersburg carrying a large order of Baccarat pieces ran aground off the coast of Antwerp. In 1999, the ship was discovered with a number of pieces in the Colbert pattern, surely meant for the well documented sumptuous feasts of the Russian nobility...
Crystal
English Victorian Spoon Warmer or Ice Bucket
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
English Victorian Spoon Warmer named Nautilus , suitable also as ice bucket - O/3620.
Silver Plate