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Collectibles and Curiosities For Sale
Item type: New and Made To Order
Salmon Fly Fishing Reel cabinet coattail
Located in DE MEERN, UT
Dutch reel cabinet!
On the waterfront, the place where fishermen meet, fish together, admire each other's fishing tackle, and drink a good glass of whiskey with each other.
This cabi...
Category
2010s Dutch Arts and Crafts Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Platinum
Monte Carlo, Poker box in solid walnut
Located in Lentate Sul Seveso, MB
Poker box made of solid canaletto walnut and smoked methacrylate.
The lid is engraved with texture based on a design by Roberto Cambi. The box consists of 292 chips, a leather cup, f...
Category
2010s Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood
DIY Mosaic puzzle in noce canaletto e metacrilato fumé
Located in Lentate Sul Seveso, MB
Rompicapo da tavolo costituito da formelle in metacrilato fumé e noce canaletto. Il tutto è contenuto in una scatola
in massello di noce canaletto e metacrilato fumé. DIY svolge la d...
Category
2010s Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plexiglass, Walnut
Fa'i', Mahjong, board game made of solid walnut and Corian
By Chi Wing Lo
Located in Lentate Sul Seveso, MB
Mahjong, a board game of Chinese origin consisting of 144 tiles.
This precious version, enclosed in a 38 x 38 cm box, is composed of solid Canaletto walnut and Corian.
Category
2010s Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut, Corian
Warthog Skull
Located in New York, NY
Warthog skull:
Measures: 13" x 14" x 9.5.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bone
PH Bow Grand Piano in American Red Maple Burl with Brass, Modern, Sculptural
Located in Copenhagen, DK
- All prices are listed ex works.
- 5 year guarantee.
- We regularly crate, ship and install PH Pianos worldwide with full insurance.
This gorgeous new PH Bow Grand Piano...
Category
2010s Danish Art Deco Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Check-Mate, Canaletto walnut chessboard with marble pieces
Located in Lentate Sul Seveso, MB
Checkerboard 38 x 38 cm in canaletto walnut with gray finish (fin.2W).
The chess pieces, made of calacatta and black marble, are contained in the leather-lined interior.
It is an obj...
Category
2010s Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble
“Triumph Bookends" White Carrara Marble Minimalist Bookend by Aparentment
Located in Terrassa, Catalonia
The marblelous book end small is a minimalist style book end made of treated Carrara marble. The product consists of a solid marble prismatic block.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Minimalist Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble, Carrara Marble
90° Minute Soccer made of crystal and leather, with knobs and players in pau ferro
Located in Lentate Sul Seveso, MB
Table football with tub and curved sides made of extra-clear glass, thickness 8 - 15 mm.
The legs and frame are made of wood, covered in leather, available in different shades, makin...
Category
2010s Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Glass, Wood
Puma Walking Stick By Bolcas
Located in Milan, IT
This exclusive walking stick is a striking collectible item distinguished by a sterling silver handle (around 150 gr in weight) in the shape of a running puma that is exquisitely cra...
Category
2010s Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver Royale Chess Set
Located in Halls Head, Western Australia
Handcrafted in solid 925 sterling silver, coated in rhodium and set with over 270 of the world's finest diamonds. The Silver Royale Chess Set radiates pure opulence through the finest quality materials design and workmanship. Crafted by renown Australian artist Colin Burn, the Silver Royale has a luxurious look and feel, featuring black white rhodium coated spheres and the regal fleur-de-lis insignia. The artists unique design is symbolic of the renown 1849 Staunton standard chess set with a limited edition of only 10 sets being created, each hallmarked, numbered and authenticated. The Silver Royale now joins the Pearl Royale...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Victorian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Visions of Home: Timeless Design, Modern Sensibility
Located in New York, NY
Author Andrew Cogar and Marc Kristal, Introduction by James L. Strickland, Photographs by Eric Piasecki
A new volume from the esteemed architecture firm Historical Concepts features ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Indonesian Table
Located in New York City, NY
‘It is truly remarkable for a talented chef to also be a sensational storyteller … Petty takes you on a journey across the archipelago, through her food and her life.’ – Julien Royer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Beginning Drawing Atelier
By Phaidon
Located in New York City, NY
Written by well-known artist and best-selling art-instruction author with almost rock-star popularity in the contemporary world of representational art, beginning drawing atelier, with its unique workbook/sketchbook approach, and high-quality paper, offers a comprehensive and contemporary twist on traditional atelier art instruction practices.
Atelier education is centered on the belief that working in a studio, not sitting in the lecture hall, is the best place to learn about art. Every artist needs to learn basic drawing skills.
In this elegant and inspiring workbook, master contemporary artist and best selling author Juliette Aristides...
Category
2010s Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Upstate Living Spaces with Space to Live
Located in New York City, NY
This inspiring collection of unique, intimate, and authentic interiors will have city- and country-dwellers alike dreaming of carving out a personal haven far from the five boroughs....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Carl Auböck Model #5655 'Seahorse' Brass Figurine Keyring
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Auböck model #5655 'Seahorse' brass figurine keyring. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural object is hand fabricated in polished brass.
Price is per i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Epoxy Resin American Flag Baseball Bat Sport collectable in stock
Located in Sacramento, CA
This collectable baseball bat is made from solid mapel with red epoxy stripes and blue star to express love for American sport. This American made sport collectable is a top-quality ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American American Craftsman Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Maple
Podium Puzzle - contemporary design architecture set
Located in LIEU-DIT BARAN, FR
Beautiful architectural sculpture set, made out of bronze, with a black patina and a wax layer finish. The set is composed of four parts, that can be assembled such as a puzzled, as ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Ali, Sacco da allenamento in pelle
Located in Lentate Sul Seveso, MB
Sacco da allenamento sospeso realizzato in pelle anilina spessorata, dal tatto vellutato, disponibile in 3 varianti di colore: nero, fango e bianco ghiaccio. La ferramenta metallica ...
Category
2010s Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Pierre Yovanovitch Interior Architecture
Located in New York, NY
Paris-based designer Pierre Yovanovitch debuts his first book showcasing his trademark French luxury aesthetic and unique vision of contemporary elegance.
With his interiors and f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Limited Edition book Shoes A-Z. FIT. With 3 Hallmarked Manolo Blahnik Art Prints
By Manolo Blahnik, TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Exclusive access to the shoe collection at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Sky-high, ornate, and the pinnacle of glamour, both restrictive and liberating, art obj...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Foil
Stephen Wilkes, Day to Night, Art Edition No. 1-100 'Brooklyn Bridge, NYC'
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Wilkes’s extraordinary panoramas depict our most famous landmarks from dawn to dusk. He captures thousands of single exposures, carefully editing and blending them into one s...
Category
2010s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Gold Royale Chess Set
Located in Halls Head, Western Australia
The Gold Royale chess set is handcrafted in solid 18K yellow gold and set with over 35 carats of the world's finest diamonds. This unique chess set radiates pure opulence through the finest quality materials design and workmanship. Crafted by renown Australian artist Colin Burn, the Gold Royale has a luxurious look and feel, featuring black and white rhodium coated spheres and fleur-de-lis insignia. The artists unique design is symbolic of the renown 1849 Staunton standard chess set with a limited edition of only 5 sets being created, each hallmarked, numbered and authenticated. The Gold Royale now joins the Pearl Royale...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Victorian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Creative Interior Solutions
Located in New York, NY
Creative Interior Solutions
Author Vicente Wolf and Margaret Russell, Foreword by Marianne Williamson
Design luminary Vicente Wolf, master of a restrained, elegant, and global aesth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Americano Single-Ended, Stereo Amp by Toolshed Amps for Original in Berlin
Located in Berlin, DE
Americano single-ended, Stereo Pentode Amplifier
5 watts per channel
Input sensitivity: 1.03v to full output
Input impedance: 50K
Inputs: 2, switchable by Front Panel Mounted Carling Switch
Output: 8 Ohm Via 5-Way Binding Posts
Bias: No user adjustment necessary
Tube compliment: 6973 power tubes (X2) Other compatible power tubes as follows: 6CM6/6CZ5/6EM5 (Performance Varies), EZ81/6CA4 Rectifier Tube (X1), EF91/6AM6 Driver Tubes (X2) Other compatible driver tubes as follows: M8083/CV4015 (Performance Varies).
Original in Berlin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American American Craftsman Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
Ralph Lauren: Revised and Expanded Anniversary Edition
Located in New York, NY
Ralph Lauren: Revised and Expanded Anniversary Edition
Author Ralph Lauren, Foreword by Audrey Hepburn
The landmark volume celebrating the life and work of Ralph Lauren—the vision o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Ann Lowe: American Couturier
Located in New York, NY
The definitive illustrated volume on the work and life of Ann Lowe, a consummate couturier who designed lavish evening and bridal gowns for members of America...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Red Epoxy Solid Oak heart Baseball Bat collectable in stock
Located in Sacramento, CA
This collectable baseball bat is made from solid oak with red epoxy hearts to express love for an amazing American sport. This American made sport collectable is a top-quality unit b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American American Craftsman Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
Houses Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Located in New York City, NY
The house is the architect’s favorite form: an opportunity to work collaboratively with clients on a design that shapes and enhances life and gives pleasure over time. Here the “House Partners” at RAMSA, four distinguished architects, present twenty houses and apartments the firm has completed in the past six years, each a unique design and collectively a stylistically diverse group reflecting in-depth knowledge of history and precedent.
Located in dramatic settings across North America—from Los Angeles to the Michigan lakefront to the spectacular the coastline of the Eastern Seaboard— Florida, South Carolina, the Hamptons, and New England—these remarkable houses reveal the architect’s emphasis on the importance of context and his dedication to exploring the nature of space. Each house invokes the vernacular architectural heritage particular to its region while gracefully reflecting its unique natural surroundings. Whether they are shingle style...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Montecito Style: Paradise on California's Gold Coast
By Phaidon
Located in New York City, NY
A privileged peek at the homes and gardens of the exclusive Southern California enclave, Montecito.
The seaside town of Montecito is often overshadowed by its neighbor Santa Barbara—which is generally how its residents like it. Though home and refuge to numerous celebrities, Montecito’s intentional cultivation of a low-key profile has allowed for a unique community to emerge, and with it, a multifaceted interior and garden design culture. Montecito Style: Paradise on California’s Gold Coast is the first book to present twenty houses and landscapes in an eclectic range of styles and rich architectural legacy that coalesce into a quintessential "California style."
The residences featured in this book reflect the diversity of design that has defined California living for more than a century: early standard-setters by George Washington Smith and an Andalusian-style abode by his protégé (and Santa Barbara’s first licensed female architect) Lutah Maria Riggs, Beaux-Arts mansions, converted carriage houses, nouveau palazzi, low-slung midcentury modern abodes, an iconic concrete-and-glass house from the 1970s, and even a studio apartment...
Category
2010s Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Guapo Backgammon
Located in Paris, FR
Backgammon Guapo with solid mahogany and
solid walnut case, with walnut hinge and magnetic
closing with button. Covered with suede leather and
with leather inlaid playing surface.
Ga...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Mahogany, Walnut
Reflections of Paradise The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho
Located in New York, NY
Written by Gordon Taylor
The much-anticipated comprehensive survey of one of the world's most acclaimed landscape garden designers, famous for his extraordinarily sophisticated use of light and geometry in nature.
Spanish landscape designer Fernando Caruncho has spent over four decades impressing the world with his breathtaking garden designs, which create a perfect union of architectural design within nature. His sources of inspiration are as diverse as Islamic design, Zen Buddhism, and European Classicism, and the control of light, geometrical scale, and use of local materials are key principles of his design approach.
In this book, Caruncho personally curates a selection of twenty-six of his international garden projects ranging from private residences to large agricultural estates and public spaces, including a vineyard in Italy, a private garden in Biarritz, France, and an expansive estate in New Jersey. Caruncho gives readers a glimpse at his creative thought process through inspirational images...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1M Marquetry Pintail Longboard
By Emma Wood
Located in Nr Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
The w o o d p o p pintail longboards are handcrafted in workshops on either side of the Welsh/English border the UK. Each one is made from best quality Finnish Birch and vacuum lamin...
Category
2010s Welsh Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
The Sportsman
Located in New York City, NY
Named UK's best restaurant in the Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards in 2016 and 2017 and Number 1 in the 2017 Square Meal UK Top 100 Restaurants outside London
Stephen Harris, the chef at the UK's #1 restaurant, The Sportsman...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things
Located in New York City, NY
The incredible life story of one of the 20th century’s most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso.
Features anecdotes of his encounters with the biggest c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Jewish Cookbook
Located in New York City, NY
A rich trove of contemporary global Jewish cuisine, featuring hundreds of stories and recipes for home cooks everywhere
The Jewish Cookbook is an inspiring celebration of the divers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vegan The Cookbook
Located in New York City, NY
"The definitive and most comprehensive cookbook of traditional and authentic home cooking vegan dishes from 150 countries around the world."—Vegan Magazine
With nearly 500 vegetable-driven recipes, Vegan: The Cookbook...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"Simple & Classic 123 step-by-step recipes" Book
Located in New York City, NY
"Deceptively easy showstoppers."—The Sunday Times Magazine
The essential step-by-step recipe book for home cooks, the 'best of the best' from three Phaido...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Signature Dishes That Matter
Located in New York City, NY
A global celebration of the iconic restaurant dishes that defined the course of culinary history over the past 300 years
Today's food-lovers often travel the globe to enjoy the foo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Eating with the Chefs, Family Meals from the World's Most Creative Restaurants
Located in New York City, NY
Eating with the Chefs documents the daily meal shared by chefs and front-of-house staff at eighteen top restaurants including Noma, Le Chateaubriand and The French Laundry.
Capture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Berry Bear Cashmere and Shearling Collectible Peluche Natural Fur by Muchi Decor
Located in Poviglio, IT
WARNING: This is not a toy. This item is for collectors only, not intended for children under 14 years of age.
The plush "Berry" bear is made of two-tone real cashmere fur, while th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Stanford White in Detail
Located in New York City, NY
A rich presentation of the sensual and scenographic effects created by the Legendary Stanford White, whose designs extend beyond architecture to encompass lavish interiors, jewelry, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1M Marquetry Pintail Longboard
By Emma Wood
Located in Nr Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
The w o o d p o p pintail longboards are handcrafted in workshops on either side of the Welsh/English border the UK. Each one is made from best quality Finnish Birch and vacuum lamin...
Category
2010s Welsh Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Jewels That Made History: 101 Stones, Myths, and Legends
Located in New York, NY
The history of the world--triumphs and tragedies, breakthroughs and breakups--through the iconic jewels that have inspired and influenced since the dawn of time.
From ancient trea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Lladró Beautiful Catrina Figurine by Raul Rubio. Limited Edition.
By Raul Rubio, Lladro
Located in New York City, NY
Limited edition Mexican Bella Catrina figurine in black gloss finish porcelain, adorned with three handmade flowers. The people of Mexico have a special relationship with death, to the point that it is part of the culture and daily life of this North American country. The Bella Catrina, conceived in the imagination of the artist Jose Guadalupe Posada...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
Rihanna Book: Limited Edition 'Fenty x Phaidon' Featuring a Designer Stand
Located in New York City, NY
Clear the coffee table! Rihanna invites you into her world with this stunning visual autobiography that comes with a limited edition stand created in collaboration with the artists T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at The Frick
Located in New York, NY
American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945–2017) revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects beginning in the late 1960s. This book contextualizes Hendricks’s portraits at different stages of the country’s history and places him in the pantheon of innovative twentieth-century artists.
Hendricks developed his signature style at a time of significant social and cultural change in the United States, especially with regard to Black artists, and amid a perceived bifurcation between abstraction and representation. He produced portraits from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Following a hiatus during which he made landscapes, basketball paintings, works on paper, and photographs, he resumed his portraiture practice from 2002 until his death in 2017. Hendricks’s portrait paintings, often derived from photographs of friends and family, hired models, or figures he encountered on the street, were inspired by the artist’s research, international travels, and visits to museums like The Frick Collection, where he studied centuries-old European paintings...
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21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Custom-made Lucite Acrylic Baby Grand Piano and Bench by Iconic Design Gallery
Located in Miami, FL
Custom-made Lucite Acrylic Baby Grand Piano and Bench by Iconic Design Gallery
Offered for sale is a new custom-made baby grand piano in Lucite and acrylic with a matching bench. The piano is crafted with thick Lucite legs on casters and a hinged top that opens to a height of 65" high. The sides ares substantial and can be created in additional colors. The keyboard used for the digital piano...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Partially Silvered Sea Shell Strombus Pugilis
Located in New York, NY
Strombus pugilis partially silvered shell 2". Creel and Gow has been working with the same atelier in Rome, Italy for over 20 years to make our signature silvered shells. Our worksho...
Category
2010s Italian Victorian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Where Architects Sleep
Located in New York City, NY
In the tradition of the bestselling Where Chefs Eat: the definitive global hotel guide by the real experts who know - architects
No one appreciates a building quite like an archit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
'Build You Myth' solid brass dumbbells
Located in Athens, GR
A set of power-building, Herculean dumbbells cast in solid brass.
Borrowing the kitsch visual language of the souvenirs sold in touristy Athens.
Sold as a pair of two 1,5 kg bumbbel...
Category
Early 2000s Greek Classical Greek Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
6'4 "Kokomo" Custom Wooden Marquetry Surfboard
By Emma Wood
Located in Nr Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
This is a unique custom surfboard featuring a marquetry deck, designed and hand-crafted by the w o o d p o p studio which specialises in marquetry and inlay work.
The studio prides...
Category
2010s British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Aino + Alvar Aalto: A Life Together
Located in New York City, NY
A visual biography of Aino and Alvar Aalto, who designed some of the most iconic objects of the twentieth century
Aino and Alvar Aalto together founded Artek and created some of the...
Category
2010s Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
California Designing Freedom
Located in New York City, NY
How did California come to have such a powerful influence on contemporary design? This book explores how the ideals of the 1960s counterculture morphed into the tech culture of Silic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Map Exploring The World, Midi Format
Located in New York City, NY
A compelling exploration of the ways that humans have mapped the world throughout history - now in a compact new edition
Map: Exploring the World brings together more than 250...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
All Glass Modern Backgammon Game Table by Impatia
By IMPATIA
Located in Milan, IT
The Tuttuno leather edition backgammon game table is designed to accommodate two players with a built-in backgammon playing surface. The minimalistic design gives off the unique impression that the table is floating.
This Tuttuno table features a unique low-iron glass structure supported by an inner genuine leather top trim, finished off with a premium Alcantara playing surface which is laser printed with the backgammon board.
This table is exclusively made 100% in Italy and sourced from the highest quality of materials.
Accessories Included:
1 custom leather backgammon box + cheker set
2 dice shakers...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Chrome
Brooklyn Arcadia: Art, History, and Nature at Majestic Green-Wood
Located in New York, NY
The New York City treasure, newly photographed, is revealed as garden in the city, repository for memory, and a place for repose, inspiration, and delight.
Green-Wood is a living cemetery that brings people closer to the world by memorializing the dead even as it embraces the art, history, and natural beauty of New York. Founded in 1838 and now a National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood was one of the first rural cemeteries in America. By the early 1860s, it had earned an international reputation for its beauty, attracting 500,000 visitors a year, second only to Niagara Falls as the nation’s greatest tourist attraction. Crowds flocked here to enjoy family outings in the finest of first-generation American landscapes. Green-Wood’s popularity helped inspire the creation of public parks, including New York City’s Central and Prospect parks. Green-Wood is 478 spectacular acres of hills, valleys, glacial ponds, and paths, throughout which exists one of the largest outdoor collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century statuary and mausoleums. Four seasons of beauty offer a peaceful oasis to visitors, as well as its 570,000 permanent residents, including Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Louis Comfort Tiffany.
At once a celebration and an invitation, the book ranges from a consideration of the natural landscape in which it is set to a close look at its architecture, statuary, symbols, typography, birds and fauna, trees, and typography.
About The Author
Andrew Garn is a fine art and editorial photographer whose recent books for Rizzoli include New York Deco...
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21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Marquetry Balance Board
By Emma Wood
Located in Nr Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
Each w o o d p o p balance board is meticulously handcrafted in our Black Mountains workshop in the UK. Doubling up as an integral part of any fitness r...
Category
2010s Welsh Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Antique and Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities for Sale
Antique and vintage collectibles and curiosities can bring whimsy and wonder to any interior.
Decorating with old scientific instruments, historical memorabilia and vintage musical instruments, as well as other authentic collectibles and curiosities that can be found on 1stDibs, presents an opportunity to create a unique, natural history museum-like atmosphere in your home that can provoke conversation as often as it pays tribute to how far we’ve come in understanding our world.
And bringing collectibles and curiosities into your space is actually on trend — Wunderkammern, or curiosity cabinets, were all the rage in Europe during the 1500s and continued to have adherents there and in the U.S. in the following centuries. Today, however, they’re experiencing a real surge in popularity and influencing how many interior designers are furnishing and decorating homes — combining contemporary with antique, scientific with tribal, earthly with extraterrestrial, Les Lalanne tables with Flemish tapestries.
The original Wunderkammern were entire rooms filled with objects demonstrating their owners’ worldly knowledge: A proper one included artificiala or preciosa (objets d’art); naturalia (such as skeletons, shells, minerals); exotica (taxidermy or dried plants); and scientifica (scientific instruments), frequently alongside religious relics and ancient artifacts.
Pay tribute to a history of rich and diverse musical traditions that have taken shape all over the world by decorating your home with a collection of antique and vintage musical instruments — with a little help from strong hanging wire or some wall hooks, vintage brass instruments such as a gong, French horn or trumpet can help elevate a home office or complement the efforts you’ve made to ensure a welcoming vibe in your home’s entryway. Bells or antique wind instruments can add provocative metallic contrasts to dark woods as tabletop decorative objects.
Create an intriguing focal point with Georgian scientific instruments, such as stick barometers with mahogany cases or lacquered brass telescopes. These items stem from an era named for the monarchies of the four King Georges, who ruled England in succession starting in 1714 (plus King William’s reign, which lasted until 1837). Just as there was beautiful jewelry produced during the period that today is coveted by collectors, there is much to be found in the collectibles and curiosities realm too.
Wanderlust, nostalgia and a shared love of good design are contributing factors to certain trends in decorating — just as vintage trunks and luggage have reappeared as furniture or home accents in a bedroom or foyer, decorating with globes, maps or nautical objects is similarly rooted in the allure of travel and a penchant for the stylish finishing touch that collectibles bring to our homes.
Find a wide range of antique and vintage collectibles and curiosities on 1stDibs.
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Step inside the Storied Mansions of Palm Beach’s Most Effervescent Architect
From Spanish-style courtyards to fanciful fountains, these acclaimed structures abound in surprising and elegant details.
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