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Collectibles and Curiosities For Sale
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Period: 1950s
Pair of Earrings by Hans Hansen
By Hans Hansen, Bent Gabrielsen
Located in Lee-On-The-Solent, GB
1960s Hans Hansen Silver Earrings, Denmark 318 designed by Bent Gabrielsen (1928-2014).
A pair of solid silver modernist leaf earrings.
Co...
Category
1950s Danish Organic Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Chess Talent Walnut Set by Agresti
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Chessboard in matt Canaletto walnut and white maple. It contains boxwood chessmen.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut
Decorating with Carpets A Fine Foundation Book by Heather MacIsaac
Located in New York, NY
Decorating with Carpets
A Fine Foundation
By: Ashley Stark Kenner and Chad Stark
with Heather MacIsaac
In decoration, a carpet’s influence is never outsized. In fact, more than any other element of a room, and as the largest and most expensive component of any design scheme, the effect a carpet has on a space is every bit as great as its size. Decorators have long recognized the importance of a fine carpet, its impact on the colors and textures of a space, its contribution to creating an atmosphere, its feel of luxury, and, with the best examples, its lasting value. Despite their essential role as the bedrock of any design scheme, beautiful carpets have lived in the shadows of recognition. Decorating with Carpets: A Fine Foundation aims to change that oversight, tapping the extensive and remarkable archive of Stark Carpet for interior design’s greatest examples. Over the course of its 75 years, Stark Carpet, the premier purveyor of carpets to the trade in the country, has worked with the each era’s most notable designers, from Billy Baldwin and Dorothy Draper to Sister Parish and Albert Hadley to Mark Hampton and Mario Buatta to contemporary leading lights such as Diamond Baratta, Victoria Hagan, Katie Ridder, and Stephen Gambrel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Designing a Garden
Located in New York City, NY
The intimate Monk’s Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston embodies the design principles that inform the work of noted lands...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Scott Mitchell Houses
Located in New York, NY
A stunning volume that gathers the California designer's most impressive works to date, from coastal sanctuaries to modern country farms.
A master of his genre, Scott Mitchell is celebrated for his warm approach to connecting the built and natural environment. Sought after for their minimalist, material-driven aesthetic, Mitchell's houses are studies in space, materiality, and light. Emphasizing an elegant spatial order, his projects respond to the natural appeal of their locations, be they bucolic retreats on Long Island or resplendent beach houses overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
The first volume on his work, Scott Mitchell Houses is a sublime exploration of the architectural designer's impressive portfolio of projects. Dynamic compositions of light and shadow with a masterful use of concrete, Mitchell's monolithic forms draw on the surrounding environment via floor-to-ceiling windows that open onto vistas so cinematic that Tom Ford utilized one of Mitchell's homes in his neo-noir film Nocturnal Animals.
Through previously unpublished photographs, readers are given an exclusive view into eight pivotal projects that span the globe from the Hamptons to Melbourne, featuring images by Ross Bleckner, Scott Frances, Trevor Mein, and Steve Shaw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Designing Hollywood Homes Movie Houses
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Shadley, interior designer to the stars from Diane Keaton and Robert Altman to Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Modine, and Ryan Murphy presents here ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
CHURCHILL. History of The English-Speaking Peoples - ALL FIRST EDITIONS - 1956-8
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Winston S.
TITLE: A History of The English-Speaking Peoples.
PUBLISHER: London: Cassell and Co, Ltd., 1956-8.
DESCRIPTION: ALL FIRST LONDON EDITIONS. 4 volumes,...
Category
1950s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Miriam Haskell Trembler Brooch
Located in Lee-On-The-Solent, GB
1950s Haskell trembler brooch.
Gilt metal filigree oak leaves are interspersed with clusters of rhinestone berries and highlighted by three larger stone...
Category
1950s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Plate
The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany Book by Martin, Alice Cooney, Nancy & Lars
By Nancy McClelland
Located in New York, NY
The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany
By: Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy McClelland, and Lars Rachen
Photography by Colin Cooke
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) found inspiration in the gardens of Laurelton Hall, his vast country estate on Long Island’s North Shore. There, Tiffany carefully drew and painted the flowering trees, vines, flowers, and fauna that were the chief ornaments of his prized glass lamps. This sumptuous volume features 70 lamps, photographed by Colin Cooke using his own specially developed techniques that reveal Tiffany’s mastery of glassmaking and metal work. The authors relate the chief decorative themes in Tiffany’s masterpieces...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sotheby's Magnificent English Furniture from the Collection of Theodore Baum
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Catalog: Magnificent English Furniture from the Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum - New York - October 22 2004. First edition softcover catalog, 475 lots photographed in...
Category
Early 2000s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"I, Me, Mine" Book and Slipcover Publisher's Edition Signed by Roylances'
Located in San Diego, CA
I ME MINE (PUBLISHER'S COPIES)
The Boxed Set, 2017
Cherished by fans and collectors, I ME MINE is the closest we will come to George Harrison's autobiography. This edition has been ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Large Moose Taxidermy Mount
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Moose shoulder mount. Older lodge mount. 62"H x 64"W protrudes 48"
Absolutely stunning size, great condition. Perfect for large rooms, cabins, rus...
Category
2010s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Animal Skin
The Tom Scheerer Compendium Book by Tom Scheerer
Located in New York, NY
The Tom Scheerer Compendium
By: Tom Scheerer
Photography by Francesco Lagnese
The best work by Tom Scheerer, the contemporary dean of American interior design, presented in a two–volume set with a stunning caning–patterned slipcase
Elegant. Restrained. Unpretentious. Sophisticated. Informal. These seemingly contradictory adjectives all characterize the inimitable interior design of Tom Scheerer, who has himself dubbed his style “Relaxed Modernism.” For more than three decades, he has brought his singular touch to city apartments, country houses, and tropical getaways. Each of the dozens of projects compiled in this two–volume set reveals the fierce intelligence, impeccable sense of proportion, and encyclopedic knowledge of design history that inform his deceptively effortless work. In a New York Times review of Scheerer’s first book, Tom Scheerer Decorates, design journalist David Netto...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Cy Twombly Photographs 1951 -2007 - Laszlo Glozer - 1st edition, Germany, 2008
Located in London, GB
Published by Schirmer Mosel, 1st edition, Germany, 2008. Hardback with German and English text.
Cy Twombly, a name that needs no introduction. Twombly is widely revered for his lar...
Category
Early 2000s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Natural Elegance Luxurious Mountain Living Book by Rush Jenkins and Klaus Baer
Located in New York, NY
Natural Elegance
Luxurious Mountain Living
By: Rush Jenkins and Klaus Baer
Photography by William Abranowicz
Text by Nancy Greystone
Natural Elegance showcases the award-winning int...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
JAPAN - Michael Kenna - 1st Edition, 2003
Located in London, GB
Published by Nazraeli Press, 1st edition, 2003. Hardback with English text.
Edition of 4000, hardbound in red silk cover, housed in a Japanese folding black silk chemise slipcase wi...
Category
Early 2000s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Out East Houses and Gardens of the Hamptons Book by Jennifer Ash Rudick
By Jennifer Ash
Located in New York, NY
Out East
Houses and Gardens of the Hamptons
By: Jennifer Ash Rudick
Photographs by Tria Giovan
Cool breezes, miles of pristine beaches, and vast, open farmland have long attracted visitors to Long Island’s South Fork, known worldwide as “The Hamptons.” Residents in picturesque seaside communities from Southampton to Montauk are calling upon world-class designers to fine-tune their visions, giving rise to a fresh design vernacular: homes that are testaments to what can be achieved when inspired by the natural beauty of a unique locale—and when imagination is one’s only limitation. Out East captures the enduring appeal of shingled houses, modernist oceanfront designs, artists’ compounds, and Montauk surf shacks...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The High Line
Located in New York City, NY
The acclaimed exploration of the iconic ‘park in the sky' in New York that reshaped global perceptions of urban space - back in print
Since opening to the public in 2009, the High Line...
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
Ruby Hummingbird on Amethyst & Quartz Mineral Base
Located in Toronto, ON
A beautiful hand carved semi precious ruby stone hummingbird mounted on an amethyst and quartz mineral specimen base. This exotic bird is a decorative combination of ornithology and ...
Category
2010s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Amethyst, Tourmaline, Quartz
Mid-Century Wall Cross - Black, White, Red - Handmade Studio Pottery, Europe
Located in Chicago, IL
This mid-century wall crucifix is a testament to meticulous craftsmanship. The elongated cross, maintaining consistent proportions, is hand-painted in semi-glossy black. The Christ f...
Category
1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
Peter Lindbergh, Dior
By Peter Lindbergh
Located in Los Angeles, CA
70 years of Dior history set against the bustle of Times Square: this was Peter Lindbergh’s concept, extraordinary both in scope and dimension, for which the house allowed an unprece...
Category
2010s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Where Bartenders Drink
Located in New York City, NY
In the footsteps of bestsellers Where Chefs Eat and Where to Eat Pizza - where the best bartenders go for the best drinks
Where Bartenders Drink is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
China The Cookbook
Located in New York City, NY
The definitive cookbook bible of the world’s most popular and oldest cuisine
In the tradition of bestsellers including Mexico and The Nordic Cookbook comes the next title in the multimillion-selling national cuisine series, China: The Cookbook...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Lladró Horse Race Figurine in White by Ernest Massuet. Limited Edition.
By Ernest Massuet, Lladro
Located in New York City, NY
Race of horses figurine joined together and one of them attached to the white, glossy and matte porcelain base limited series. The thrilling energy of a horse race, captured in all i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
Lladró Hercules Beetle Figurine by José Luis Santes
Located in New York City, NY
An innovative porcelain and metal creation inspired by one of the fascinating creatures in nature. Part of the Awesome Insects collection. This origi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
The Impossible Collection of Art (2nd ed.)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Modern art is the new intellectual currency, drawing the attention of media moguls, hedge-fund managers, and Hollywood darlings, granting them entry into an exclusive global community. Renowned art dealers Philippe Ségalot and Franck Giraud have curated The Impossible Collection of Art, an unparalleled modern art collection where anything is possible. These 100 extraordinary artworks, introduced by Joachim Pissarro, offer a unique perspective on 20th-century artistic achievements, whether hidden in a museum...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Linen
Jeff Koons Signed, Limited Edition Book, Taschen, Large Scale in Clamshell Box
By TASCHEN
Located in PARIS, FR
Jeff Koons
2007
#199/1500
Hardcover in clamshell box
33 x 44 cm / 17 3/8 x 13 Inches
606 pages
Published by Taschen
Limited Collector’s Edition of 1,500 copies, numbered and signed by Jeff Koons
In Excellent, Untouched Condition.
This weighty tome, published by Taschen, is the definitive overview of Jeff Koons' work. The exhaustive monograph is one of the 1,600 limited edition, numbered copies, each book being signed by the artist.
From kinky to kitsch to conceptual, Jeff Koons’s art is anything but conformist. Since he stirred up the art world establishment in the 1980s with his unapologetic basketball...
Category
2010s American Baroque Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric
Georgian Architectural Designs and Details The Classic 1757 StyleBook
Located in valatie, NY
Georgian Architectural Designs and Details The Classic 1757 StyleBook by
Abraham Swan. Published by Dover Publications, New York, 2005. Among the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sigmar Polke: We Petty Bourgeois! Comrades and Contemporaries, The 1970s
Located in London, GB
Published by D.A.P, New York, 2011
Perhaps the supreme instance of Polke’s political art is We Petty Bourgeois!, the ambitious series at the heart of this volume.
Made between 197...
Category
2010s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Kit Harington Authentic Strand of Hair
Located in Jersey, GB
Kit Harington’s big break was as Jon Snow in hit TV series Game of Thrones – a role for which he has received numerous rewards. The final series is due t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Manners Begin at Breakfast Book by Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece
Located in New York, NY
Manners Begin at Breakfast
Modern Etiquette for Families
By: Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece
Foreword by Tory Burch
Introduction by Dr. Perri Klass
Illustrations by Lydia Starkey
The founder of a successful children’s clothing line, author of an influential parenting blog, and mother of five children, Marie-Chantal of Greece is constantly asked how she manages to do it all. So many of these queries—about proper etiquette for children in our fast paced, technology-centered world—led her to recognize the need for a modern handbook on children’s manners. Manners Begin at Breakfast addresses rules of etiquette, including table manners...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Exotic - A Fetish for the Foreign
Located in New York City, NY
A fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange in art, architecture and design, and its impact on Western culture
Exotic explores our obsessio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Passione di Gioco Walnut Mahjong by Agresti
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Mahjong in matt Canaletto walnut with brass parts in ruthenium finish.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut
Great Escapes: Italy Angelika Taschen and Christiane Reiter Hardcover Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Great Escapes: Italy Angelika Taschen and Christiane Reiter Hardcover Book.
To travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, architects, and merchants have been drawn here, inspired by the beauty of Venice, Florence, Naples, and Rome. Countless books, paintings, poems, and sculptures are evidence of its undying appeal, and over the past 60 years, the country has become one of the world’s top travel and holiday destinations. The loveliness of Italy—its architecture, landscapes, culture and food (some of the world’s finest!)—if not eternal, is certainly enduring, and the easygoing and relaxed Italian lifestyle, il dolce far niente, is still unrivaled.
Here, some of Italy’s most amazing landscapes are brought to life, like Lake Como (residence of George Clooney), Venice, Florence and Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast, and no less magical, the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily. In these mythical surroundings are legendary hotels full of atmosphere, where novels are set, movies are made, weddings are celebrated, and famous love stories consummated: Villa d’Este on Lake Como, the Hotel Splendido...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Turquoise Delight: 1950s Floor Standing Ashtray with Vase Holders
Located in San Benedetto Del Tronto, IT
Charming and almost unique floor standing turquoise bluee ash tray with little bowls / vase holders dating back to the 1950s.
This lovely vintage piece is made with authentic old sc...
Category
1950s Italian Industrial Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Brass
Carved marine bone chess game consisting of 32 pawns Hong Kong 1950s
Located in Milan, IT
Ivory chess game consisting of 32 carved checkers of different sizes in two different colors. The checkers are housed in their original box lined inside with blue velvet, open has t...
Category
1950s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bone
Décors Barbares The Enchanting Interiors Book by Nathalie Farman-Farma
Located in New York, NY
Décors Barbares
The Enchanting Interiors of Nathalie Farman-Farma
By: Nathalie Farman-Farma
Photography by Miguel Flores-Vianna
Foreword by David Netto
A ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
IMCO 6500 Table Petrol Lighter 1950 By Julius Franz Meister Green Chromed Steel
Located in Miami, FL
Candle Triplex 6500 table lighter designed by IMCO.
This is a brilliantly engineered, unusual and quite ingenious semi-automatic table petrol lighter designed by Julius Franz Meister in Austria, back in the 1950. This model was made by the IMCO company and was named Candle triplex 6500. Has been crafted in solid chromed steel, with aluminum parts and embellished with green lacquer. This lighter is in unused grade, never fired and in superb mint condition with the original box from the stated period. About the mechanic, there is a button on the inserted lighter - pressure solution for stone-flint change. The lighter has a sliding flame regulator or windshield, a space in the base-socket for reserve stones-flints and a special filling tank that you can either pull out for filling or you can pull out the bottom for filling. Stunning modernist design.
Model: Triplex Candle Table lighter 6500.
Materials: Chromed Steel, aluminum and green lacquer.
Weight: All together 66.30 Grams.
Measurements: 63.5 mm by 63.5 mm by 207 mm (2.50 x 2.50 x 8.15 Inches).
Rarity: Rare in mint, never fired condition and with the original box.
Marks: Stamped with the maker's mark and signed as follow; "IMCO MADE IN AUSTRIA 6500".
IMCO
IMCO was a very important Austrian manufacturer of cigarette lighters. Established in 1907 by Julius Franz Meister, who was formerly a manufacturer of brass buttons for the Austro-Hungarian Army. The first IMCO lighters...
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum, Steel, Chrome
Great Escapes South America By Christiane Reiter Taschen The Hotel Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Great Escapes South America By Christiane Reiter The Hotel Hardcover Book.
Continuing its quest to seek out the world's most unique and inspiring hotels, TASCHEN takes on South America. This diverse selection of hotels, posadas, and haciendas highlights the most exceptional destinations on the continent. Among the breathtaking paradise spots are a hotel on a Patagonian natural reserve, a hacienda perched high in the Andes mountains, an adobe hotel in the Chilean desert, a converted monastery in Peru, a hotel built entirely of salt in Bolivia's Uyuni salt desert, and an ""ecolodge"" on a natural reserve in the Amazon rain forest. For the love of nature, tango dancing, and caipirinhas, nothing beats these exotic escapes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary South American Folk Art Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Mid Century Modern German record player, radio by Siemens , 1950s
By Siemens
Located in Gaggenau, DE
Mid Century Modern German record player, radio by Siemens , 1950s
The radio is in fully functional.
Dimensions:
43 D x 120 W x 111 H
It is in good vintage condition, however,...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Teak
Boeing Engine part CFM56 Side Table
Located in Paris, FR
Side table Boeing Engine part CFM56 made
with CFM56 engine part in titanium nickel and
aluminium alloy. From Boeing 737 and Airbus A320,
with polished a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum, Nickel
Cookbook Book
Located in New York City, NY
Featuring 125 seminal cookbooks from the last 100 years, Cookbook Book is a celebration of the world's most beautiful, influential and informative cookbooks.
From the tried-and-tr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Cathy Graham Custom Designed Slipcase Edition of ‘Second Bloom'
Located in New York, NY
Cathy Graham custom designed slipcase edition of ‘Second Bloom’ with a mint green ribbon for easy retrieval.
Category
2010s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Campo Baeza: Selected Works
Located in New York, NY
A comprehensive survey of the work of a master of modernist design today.
Alberto Campo Baeza, one of contemporary architecture’s most distinguished voices, is renowned for a body o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Marvin E. Newman, Art Edition Broadway, Believe It, 1958
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A stately Art Edition presenting the first major career restrospective of Marvin E. Newman, with some 170 featured images as well as signed photographic print Broadway, Believe It, 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Red Thread Nordic Design Book
Located in New York City, NY
An elegant exploration of the hugely influential simplicity, beauty, and functionality of Nordic design timeless, yet on trend
From literature to food...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Hermanos Calavera Traicionera in Oiled Mahogany by Miguel & Ilse Silva for Wooda
Located in Omro, WI
These handsome but quirky brothers designed by Miguel and Ilse Silva for Wooda are the result of an engaging mix of personality, love, fun and mischievousness. Los Hermanos Calavera(...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Hardwood, Mahogany, Maple, Oak
Hermanos Calavera Jefe in Oiled Walnut by Miguel and Ilse Silva for Wooda
Located in Omro, WI
These handsome but quirky brothers designed by Miguel and Ilse Silva for Wooda are the result of an engaging mix of personality, love, fun and mischievousness. Los Hermanos Calavera ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Hardwood, Maple, Oak, Walnut
Pietro Cicognani Architecture and Design Book by Karen Bruno
Located in New York, NY
Pietro Cicognani
Architecture and Design
By: Karen Bruno
Photography by Francesco Lagnese
Foreword by Isabella Rossellini
For the past thirty years, Itali...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Brutalist Wall Cross - Lava Texture, Handmade Studio Pottery, Europe
Located in Chicago, IL
This exceptional Brutalist wall cross features a distinctive texture reminiscent of lava on rough stone, with subtle hues of blacks, sometimes exhibiting metallic accents. The charis...
Category
1950s European Brutalist Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
Norman Adams Auction Catalogue from Sotheby's London
Located in valatie, NY
The Norman Adams Legacy 1923-2009 auction catalogue from Sotheby's London of Classic English Furniture London held 21 April 2009. London: Sotheby's, 2009....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Modernist Wall Cross, Jesus, Gold accents, European Ceramic
Located in Chicago, IL
This modernist wall cross features an exceptional Art Deco styled relief rendering of the figure of Jesus Christ, exuding serenity and majesty. It boasts an elaborated earthy color p...
Category
1950s European Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Art Edition "Me and My Shadow"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fiber-based gelatin silver print, 21.8 x 28.8 cm on 22.9 x 33 cm paper (8.6 x 11.8 in. on 9 x 13 in. paper); hardcover volume in a slipcase, letterpress-printed text, two different paper stocks, and tip-ins, 24 x 34 cm (9.4 x 13.4 in.), 356 pages.
In 1964, famed writer Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters set off across America on a “Transcontinental Bus Tour,” headed for the New York World’s Fair. Kesey’s journey, in the company of his Merry Pranksters, lies at the heart of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, an as-if-first-hand account of the group’s antics and ethos by Tom Wolfe, wunderkind of the New Journalism movement.
This Art Edition presents Wolfe’s era-defining text in letterpress, along with facsimile reproductions of his manuscript pages, ephemera of the period, and photographs of the acid scene by Lawrence Schiller and Ted Streshinsky. The accompanying print, Me and My Shadow, by Lawrence Schiller, was photographed at the Hollywood Acid Test on February 25, 1966.
As the first photojournalist to capture the acid scene from the inside, Schiller began with a single contact in Berkeley, California, and built a large network of young, receptive subjects who allowed him to document their experiences with LSD starting in late 1965. At first, he was a fly on the wall as groups of friends tripped in the privacy of their homes. By early 1966 he had met the Merry Pranksters and was invited to the Acid Test in Hollywood.
During the Test, Kool-Aid laced with a heavy dose of LSD was served up from an industrial-sized pot. Participants turned on the Grateful Dead’s music and tuned in to the burgeoning psychedelic scene. Schiller’s image of a tripster “freaking freely” with his own shadow—long believed to be Neal Cassady—appeared in Life magazine in March 1966 in a photo essay which served to introduce the nation to the sweeping new LSD epidemic. For Flaming Lips lead singer Wayne Coyne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Room Inside Contemporary Interiors Book
Located in New York City, NY
Room is a comprehensive overview of contemporary world interior design and designers.
A lavishly illustrated volume, room presents 100 exceptional emerging designers, selected by ten international leaders in the interior design world; featuring curators from a broad range of disciplines, including groundbreaking design publications, world-renowned academics and tutors on design, influential interior design practices, cross-genre innovators and industry leaders.
This international panel have each chosen ten of their favourite interior design projects that have broken new ground in the last five years. Arranged alphabetically by designer, the book features more than 700 photographs, renders and drawings. The result is an up-to-the-minute collection representing the best of both global and regional interior design around the world.
The variety in curators ensures a uniquely broad remit of interior design is covered, from retail concept stores, ephemeral dining experiences, stage design, art installations, hotels and home living.
Each critic has written exclusively for this publication on each of the designs they have nominated - projects that they believe to have made a profound impact on the course of contemporary interior design. The book also includes biographies of all interior designers and curators.
Specifications:
Format: Hardback
Pages: 416 pp
Illustrations: 750 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714867441
About the curators:
Nacho Alegre is a cofounder of Apartamento Magazine. Apartamento is a biannual, English-language publication read in 45 countries; it has been called the world's hippest interiors magazine.
Michael Boodro is Editor-in-Chief of ELLE DECOR Magazine. He has also held editorial positions at HG Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and GQ. He is the author of Stephen Sills and James Huniford...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Art Deco Poster Book by William Crouse
Located in New York, NY
The Art Deco Poster
By: William Crouse
Introduction by Alastair Duncan
Posters of the Art Deco period, which once graced billboards and walls to advertise every variety of product, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
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Modernist Cobalt Blue and Gold Wall Cross - European Studio Pottery Masterpiece
Located in Chicago, IL
This modernist Studio Pottery wall cross, meticulously crafted by a European artist, features a cobalt blue crucifix enriched with subtle gold accents cross, bearing an exceptional m...
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1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
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Hudson River Journey Images from Lake Tear of the Clouds Signed 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Hudson River Journey Images from Lake Tear of the Clouds to New York Harbor by Hardie Truesdale and Joanne Michaels. Signed Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket by Countryman Pre...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
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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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