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Collectibles and Curiosities For Sale
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Period: 1950s
Teckell Ciclotte in Black by Luca Schieppati and Gianfranco Barban
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ciclotte exercise bike designed by Luca Schieppati and Gianfranco Barban for Teckell is a part of the fitness collection. The bike is built with a crysta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Bodies of Words Stories on Skin, by Jennifer Goldring, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Bodies of Words Stories on Skin, by Jennifer Goldring. December Publishing, St. Louis, 2019. 1st Ed hardcover. Bodies of Words is a spectacular full-color book of text-based tattoos ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Harrison Ford Authentic Strand of Hair, 21st Century
Located in Jersey, GB
Harrison Ford has starred in some of the most successful movies of all time, including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.
Aside from his acting work, Ford is a passionate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Moukarzel, Roger - Le Voile: the Journey of the Veil - Deluxe Portfolio Edition
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Moukarzel, Roger.
Title: Le Voile: The Journey of the Veil. 12-25 December, 2007.
Publisher: Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (ADMAF), 2007.
Description: Deluxe portfolio edition. 2-1/4" x 23-3/4" x 17-3/4", ten colored photographs (22-1/4" x 16-1/4"), each signed by Moukarzel in print. In the original maroon cloth bound portfolio with the book (text in English and Arabic), and veil.
Condition: Like new
Additional information: Roger Moukarzel is an internationally published documentary and fashion photographer. Born in Beirut in 1962, Moukarzel’s interest in war photography began when he was a teenager. For fifteen years, he worked for news agencies Sygma and Reuters, photographing the essence of combat and the resilience of humanity under the harshest circumstances.
Moukarzel’s photo-documentaries have been featured in many international publications. France’s legendary Paris Match printed one of his photographs – a scene of destruction and mayhem on a Beirut street – on the cover of its 40th anniversary issue.
Years spent documenting turmoil and disaster took a mental and physical toll on Moukarzel. He eventually shifted to fashion photography, a more glamorous (and less dangerous) field. In his own words, he explains: "A shift from scenes of death… to scenes of life A shift from the ugly face of war...
Category
Early 2000s Emirian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric
Christie's: Fine English Furniture, Including Works of Art from Hartley Place
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: Fine English Furniture, including Works of Art from Hartley Place, 20 September 2001, Christie's. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. 495 lots, including properties of: the late Col. Norman Colville, M.C., the executors of the late Sir Emmanuel Kaye, C.B.E., the Lord St. Oswald, Sir Philip Powell...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Gigi
Located in London, GB
Original Spanish film poster for the American romantic musical romantic comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan...
Category
1950s Spanish Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Small Olive Wood and Malachite 9 piece Dice Set
Located in Barranquilla, CO
Our small dice set is composed of 9 (6cms) olive wood dice with malachite inlays. Acrylic tray included.
Nothing better than having fun, and if you can do it in style even better....
Category
2010s Colombian Other Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Malachite
Art of Parmigianino by David Franklin, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Art of Parmigianino by David Franklin. Published by Yale University Press for National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 2003. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket Exhibition Catalog. Published...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sotheby's NY Property From the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra, Vol. III
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's New York: Property From the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra Volume III, November 4, 2005. First Edition softcover catalogue on European Furniture and Fine & Decorativ...
Category
Early 2000s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Christies May 2005, 20th Century Decorative Arts, Paris, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Christies May 2005, 20th Century Decorative Arts, Paris, 1st Ed. 66 lots on 88 pages photographed in color and described. With results.
NPT Books, a division of Trent Antiques, has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Carved Half Model of Speedboat "Dixie II"
Located in Norwell, MA
Half model of the gold cup racing speedboat Dixie II. Planked in mahogany with brass pins. Printed below the waterline with gold stripe. Deck has exhaust cowl...
Category
2010s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Sebastião Salgado, Amazônia, Signed Sumo Book, Black & White Photographic Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This SUMO-sized Art Edition (No. 1–100), designed by Lélia Wanick Salgado and signed by Sebastião Salgado, is presented with a clothbound companion volume, the signed print Adão Yawa...
Category
2010s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Vintage Triangle Silver Earrings by Rey Urban, Sweden, 1957
By Rey Urban
Located in Stockholm, SE
Beautiful pair of vintage triangle sterling silver ear rings by Rey Urban, Stockholm, Sweden, 1957. These beautiful ear rings are decorated with a small pink stone in the middle and ...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Stone, Sterling Silver
David Rago & John Sollo Auction Catalogs, 20th C Modern 3/2002, 10/2003
Located in valatie, NY
David Rago & John Sollo Auction Catalogs, 20th c Modern 3/2022, 10/2003. A pair of 1st Ed softcover auction catalogs 20th c modern. 2002 catalog with results. A total of 1796 lots ph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Unforgiven by Alan Le May, First British Edition, 1957
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Le May, Alan. The Unforgiven. London: Collins, 1958. First British edition. Octavo. In original publisher's dark blue hardback boards and pictorial dust jacket. New archival cloth sl...
Category
1950s English Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Silverman Collection by Robert Brown, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
The Silverman Collection by Robert Brown. Published London: Richard Nagy Ltd, 2012. 176 pgs w/ 25 color plates and many other color & b&w illustrations. A beautiful collection of Ger...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Regional Firearms Auction February 2019, Rock Island Auction 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Regional Firearms Auction February 2019, Rock Island Auction. 1st Ed softcover with over 10,000 lots on 486 pages. Premier Firearms Auction include...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Icons of Garden Design
Located in valatie, NY
Icons of Garden Design. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2001 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. 176 pp. A book on masterpieces of garden design throughout the world. The book traces the d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Manhattan Unfurled Book by Matteo Pericoli
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Manhattan Unfurled by Pericoli, Matteo and Goldberger, Paul
Matteo Pericoli trained as an architect in Milan and then came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the decade, and the sense of the city in its wake–especially its silence–remained in his mind. He experienced similar feeling taking photographs of Riverside Drive from the Circle Line ferry, and decided to transpose them into a line drawing. It was then that he felt compelled to photograph the whole of New York’s shoreline profile–from Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and New Jersey (which he reached by motorcycle) — and make two continuous and continuously enchanting pen-and-ink drawing of Manhattan’s skyline.
Manhattan Unfurled is published in an elegant slipcase, and the drawings fold out, accordion-style, with the West on one side and the East on the other. An introduction by distinguished New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger, who first wrote bout Matteo’s project in The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town,” will accompany the drawing in a separate pamphlet. This book is both a wonderful New York City memento, perfect for gift giving, and an entirely unique work of art.
Hardcover, accordion style fold-out sheets in original publisher's slipcase by the artist Matteo Pericoli.
Separate pamphlet containing text by Paul Goldberger laid-in loose.
48 pages, each containing a drawing of a continuous view of Manhattan: right side being the East Side (the Battery to the Henry Hudson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Expressionist Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Christie's FRANCIS BACON SEATED FIGURE 1960 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's Francis Bacon / FRANCIS BACON SEATED FIGURE 1960. Christies, NY. 1st Edition Paperback. The work, entitled Seated Figure (Red Cardinal), is a fantastic representation of B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Delorenzo Thirty Years, 14th and 15th December 2010 Christies 1st Ed Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
DELORENZO Thirty Years, 14th and 15th December 2010 Christies 1st Ed Catalog. 128 lots illustrated in color and fully described. 146 pages. DeLorenzo Gallery specialized in 20th Cent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Art Deco Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Rare Collector's Wine, Rose of Versailles, by Yamato Wine, Japan
Located in Roma, IT
This Rose of Versailles - Rare Collector's wine, is a bottle of sparkling red wine produced in Japan in 2012.
The wine is a cabernet sauvignon gr...
Category
2010s Japanese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
Taxidermy Free-Standing Blackbuck Antelope
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Taxidermy Blackbuck (Antilope Cervicapra)
20th century
Mounted free-standing with the head turned.
Measure: H 107 cm.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Airport Black Aircraft Bar Trolley
Located in Paris, FR
Aircraft bar trolley Airport black, unique design, with international
airports names. Available on black or white background, trolley on wheels.
W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Stainless Steel
World Black Aircraft Bar Trolley
Located in Paris, FR
Aircraft bar trolley world black, unique design, with world map.
Available on black or white background, trolley on wheels.
With 1 drawer in anod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Stainless Steel
Two Ming Porcelain Masterpieces from an Important Collection Sotheby's Hong Kong
Located in valatie, NY
Two Ming Porcelain Masterpieces from an Important Collection, Sotheby's Hong Kong, October 8, 2019. The sale features two outstanding masterpieces of 15th century blue and white porcelain assembled by a connoisseur with an eye for the finest examples of Chinese porcelain: a Chenghua palace bowl painted with scrolling daylilies and a Xuande reverse-decorated ‘pomegranate’ dish. Sir Q.W. Lee was a banker and philanthropist well-known for his passion for collecting outstanding Chinese works of art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Joan Miro Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937 by Jim Coddington, Robert Lubar, Jordana Mendelson and Adele Nelson. Publisher, Brand: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008. 1st E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-1937 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-1937 by Jacqeline Strecker. Published by Prestel Publishing March 2012. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket exhibition catalog (Art Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Essential Impressionists by Antonia Cunningham
Located in Bradenton, FL
Essential Impressionists by Antonia Cunningham. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Published in 2003 by Parragon Publishing of Bath, England. 256 pages, illustrated.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Anton Michelsen Naturalistic Brooch in Sterling Silver, 1950s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A naturalistically shaped leaf brooch in sterling silver 925/1000. Designed by Getrud Engel and made by Anton Michelsen in Denmark circa 1950. This particular leaf design is by far t...
Category
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Henri Labrouste Structure Brought to Light, MOMA, Signed 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light MOMA Mar 10–Jun 24, 2013 Exhibition Catalog. New York Museum of Modern Art 2012. Signed by the author, Barry Bergdoll, 1st Ed hardcover wi...
Category
2010s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Bicycle Figurine by Designer Marcel Wanders
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
This small bicycle was designed by Marcel Wanders for Randstad Group. Randstad Group is big employment agency. Since 2018 Marcel Wanders designs a bicycl...
Category
2010s Dutch Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
Diamond and Pearl Cocktail Ring, Ladies, 1.75 Cttw
Located in Toledo, OH
Ladies diamond and pearl cocktail ring, tested 14K gold, 1.75 cttw diamonds, 8.5mm center pearl, diamonds are SI-I with G-I color, Size 4.5 ring. 12.5 grams. Tall setting, 15mm to to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Keanu Reeves Authentic Strand of Hair, 21st Century
Located in Jersey, GB
Keanu Reeves was one of the biggest stars of the 1990s. He appeared in a string of blockbusters, including Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Speed and The Matrix. He remains a leading man, appearing most recently in the successful John Wick...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Pierce Brosnan Authentic Strand of Hair, 21st Century
Located in Jersey, GB
Pierce Brosnan made his name in popular US detective series Remington Steele (1982-1987). In 1994 he took on the role of James Bond in the hugely succes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Five Piece Wooden Train Set Attributed to Montgomery Schoolhouse, Vermont
Located in San Francisco, CA
This whimsical train set consisting of five interlocking pieces: locomotive, tank car, hopper, coal car and the caboose; wheels work smoothly.
Category
1950s North American American Craftsman Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Black and White Beech Wood Foosball Table, Made in France
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
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Made in France from solid beech wood, this Foosball / Babyfoot is the one you will find in F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Marvin E. Newman, Art Edition "Coney Island, 1953"
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 Coney Island, 1953, a d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Ship's Wheel with Chrome Trim
Located in Norwell, MA
Eight spoke varnished mahogany ships wheel with chrome trim ring and center hub with cap. One handle has ropework.
Overall dimensions: Weight is...
Category
1950s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Chrome
Kay Bojesen Painted Wooden Puzzle, 1950s
By Kay Bojesen
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Bought from the collection of Danish Design Museum in Randers Denmark (now closed) this large puzzle designed by Kay Bojesen reigns among his rarest designs. This example is probably...
Category
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Beech
Sotheby's; a Celebration of The English Country House
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's; a celebration of the English country house. New York: Sotheby's, 2005. First edition soft cover. 212 pages. A Sotheby's auction catalogue for the auction held on April 16,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1950s Balloon Ashtray Dish Yellow Stoneware Pottery Tent Circus Carnival Italy
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Subtle Oval-shaped Ashtray with a Hot Air Balloon / Circus Carnival. No markings, just a small remnant of a paper label. No chips, and no cracks.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Stoneware
Plaster Jesus Traditional Figure, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Traditional religious plaster figure of a young Jesus with a fish.
Made in traditional Catalan atelier in Olot, Spain, circa 1950.
In original condit...
Category
1950s Spanish Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster
Carved Quarterboard Cohasset
Located in Norwell, MA
Expertly carved nautical quarterboard with deeply incised anchors and Cohasset. With routed edge. Rich dark mahogany finish with gold letters. Measures: Weight is 6 pounds. 8" H x 48...
Category
2010s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
John Whalley In New Light by John Whalley, Signed 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
John Whalley: In New Light by John Whalley, Signed. Published by John Whalley Studio, ME, 2006. Signed 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket. The Maine artist l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Art Nouveau by Gabriele Far'becker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great Art Nouveau Book with lots of photos and details of Art Nouveau pieces. Book is in excellent condition, purchased from a collector.
Category
Early 2000s European Art Nouveau Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Italian Master Drawings by Hugo Chapman and David Lachenmann
Located in valatie, NY
Italian Master Drawings by Hugo Chapman and David Lachenmann. Publisher Paul Holberton Publishing, 2020. 1st Ed hardcover catalog with dust jack...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Luxury Crocodile Billiards Game Set with Chrome & Glass Detailing
By IMPATIA
Located in Milan, IT
With a continued desire to push the boundaries of luxury design within the game table industry, IMPATIA unveils a brand new contemporary billiards set crafted from genuine crocodile ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Chrome
Lladró Canvas Vase Flowers Tapestry Vase by Bodo Sperlein
By Lladro, Bodo Sperlein
Located in New York City, NY
White glossy porcelain vase with accumulation of one by one handmade flowers for home decoration. Contemporary but Classic this sculptural vase is an impressive design statement comb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
Rare and Collectable Sleeping Droopy by Demons & Merveilles Figurine Statue
Located in Sofia, BG
Rare figure of sleeping Droopy made out of polystone resin.
This is an official licensed Tex Avery figure.
Pre-owned but in perfect shape in original box....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
10'9 "Gun" Custom Wooden Marquetry Surfboard with Copper Inlay
By Emma Wood
Located in Nr Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
This is a unique custom surfboard featuring a marquetry deck with copper inlay, designed and hand-crafted by the w o o d p o p studio which specialises in...
Category
2010s British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
Marty De Cambiaire: Dessins Génois Genoese Drawings, 1st Ed Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Marty De Cambiaire: Dessins Génois Genoese Drawings. Softcover Exhibition Catalog for show held March 25-April 19, 2019 in Paris. 17th-18th c 22 old master artists drawings.
NPT Bo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"The Man with the Golden Arm" Original US Film Poster
By Saul Bass
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster.
Saul Bass was born in New York. Bass was a rotund, jovial character. After studying at the Art Students League and graduating from Brooklyn College, he moved west at the age of 26, and is credited with introducing an East Coast sensibility to marketing. He saw advertising as a means for funding his passion for the movies, and after 6 years working with a number of agencies, he finally had the funds to establish his own. All this time, he was forging ever-closer links with the film industry, and in 1954 this led to a commission from Otto Preminger to design the poster for Carmen Jones. The following year the director invited the artist to work on The Man With The Golden Arm...
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1950s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
North Shore Long Island Country Houses, 1890-1950, 1st Ed by Paul J. Mateyunas
By Paul J. Mateyunas
Located in valatie, NY
North Shore Long Island Country Houses, 1890-1950 by Paul J. Mateyunas. New York: Acanthus Press. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 2007. 365 pp. A tour of more than 40 histo...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Industrial Sublime Modernism & the Transformation of NY's Rivers, 1900-1940
Located in valatie, NY
Industrial Sublime: Modernism and the Transformation of New York's Rivers, 1900-1940 by Kristen M. Jensen, Bartholomew F. Bland, Katherine E. Manthorne, Wendy Greenhouse, and Ellen E. Roberts. Fordham University Press, 2013. 1st Ed softcover. Co-published with the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers. The exhibition ran from October 12, 2013, through January 17, 2014. It was not until the first decade of the 20th century, as artists like Robert Henri and John Sloan turned their attention to the urban scene, that American art shifted its focus from bucolic landscapes to the cities, the towns, the crowds, especially the raucous urban scene of Manhattan, by then the nation's most important city. This movement away from painting the land to painting the life on the street is often seen as a clean break with the depiction of the landscape, and with landscape painting generally as a mainstay of American art in the face of European Modernism. However, artists continued to paint the Hudson River, as well as its tributaries, the Harlem and East rivers, and the great harbor of New York City. What was different was their approach. Giving way the romantic ideals of earlier painters, artists like Henri and Sloan, and later, Georgia O'Keeffe, George Ault, Edward Hopper, and Preston Dickinson...
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2010s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Light & Shadow - Daido Moriyama - Signed 1st Edition, Kodansha, 2009
Located in London, GB
Signed First Edition, published by Kodansha, Japan, 2009.
Signed by Daido Moriyama at the title page, this small ‘bunko’ format photobook, with its original Obi strip, is a beautifu...
Category
Early 2000s Japanese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Steamship Painting of SS Southern Cross
Located in Norwell, MA
Gouache painting of the steamship Southern Cross, with red, white, and blue stack. Vessel is sailing amongst a great group of ships and yachts, all with...
Category
1950s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paint, Paper
Anselm Kiefer I Sette Palazzi Pelesti by Hangar Bicocca, 1st Ed Exhibition Cat
Located in valatie, NY
Anselm Kiefer : I Sette Palazzi Pelesti by Hangar Bicocca. Published by Edition du Regard, 2004. 1st Ed softcover. Exhibition on September 24, 2004. The Seven Heavenly Palaces. The Exhibit was conceived and presented for the opening of Pirelli HangarBicocca in 2004 and based on a project by Lia Rumma, the permanent site-specific installation by Anselm Kiefer—The Seven Heavenly Palaces—owns its name from the palaces described in the ancient Hebrew...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
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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