1930s Collectibles and Curiosities

HORST - Interiors is a book which features 52 of the most stunning Interior designs taken by famed fashion photographer Horst P. Horst during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The images of these splendid houses, apartments and holiday homes - including a memorable portrait of each owner - provides a wonderful record of the changing styles of that period. Horst was invited into homes which many photographers would never have had access to, these included The Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Truman Capote, Jacqueline Onassis...

Le Corbusier, one of the world's most important and influential architects and accomplished visual artist, also created a vast oeuvre of interior and furniture designs. The chaise-lo...

Original Art Deco ashtray Copper and bakelite ashtray fashed after the 1934 'Saturn" World's Fair Edition Ashtray for Harper's Radio Alhambra. Circa 1930s.

Egg-shaped silver plated brass ashtray or incense burner. Titled The Smile, it was designed and manufactured by Carl Cohr in Fredericia Denmark. Stamped Cohr, Denmark, 1950s.

The medicine ball is part of a big collection from the 1920s-1930s, the time of the first gym enthusiasts in Germany. The ball is handmade and filled with horse hair. All balls are i...

Framed Cote De Beaune region wine map from 1972. The print has been removed to clean the glass, the frame has minor damage in places but nothing that de...

Framed La Cote De Nuits region wine map from 1972. The print has been removed to clean the glass, the frame has minor damage in places but nothing that detracts from its beauty, if a...

Tennis ashtray by Lancel , France 1960's.

The definitive monograph of Oehlen's work to date. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, each signed by Albert Oehlen. Also available: An Art Edition limited to 100 copies, each signed by the artist and accompanied by an original artwork. Often wryly funny and just as smart, Albert Oehlen’s paintings play the medium for all it’s worth and then some. After realizing that the so-called death of painting freed him to explore "the number of aspects through which one could expand painting," Oehlen started work on a wide variety of figurative and non-objective offerings, in what he has called his "post-non-figurative" art. The artist continuously challenges himself, setting up rules that force him to overcome convention and his own routine in order to arrive at a satisfying image. During his career he has chosen to paint in primary colors only or in gray, to integrate mirrors into his canvases, or to start on computer paintings when the first PCs became available. In his most recent work Oehlen expands painting through the use of advertising posters whose in-your-face aesthetics he transforms with subtle brushwork. Never without a touch of tongue-in-cheek humour, his work seems to be winking at us as it dares us to change the way we perceive an image. This XL monograph covers the entire Scope of Oehlen’s oeuvre: Roberto Ohrt discusses the early years, when Oehlen came into his own alongside Kippenberger, Bu¨ttner, and others, part of a scene that broke rules in art and rock music. Klaus Kertess examines the years from 1988 onwards, when Oehlen saw himself more self-consciously as a painter and started his first abstract works, then continued to probe the limits of the medium. Martin Prinzhorn and John Corbett...

Original Op-Art Posters printed for the Mexico 68 Olympic Games. The iconic design derives from the logo that integrated very successfully "Mexico 68" with t...

This gymnastics bench comes from a gym in Prague and was designed in the 1930s. The iron feet are retained. The thick cowhide has been cleaned and preserved and has a very nice patina. Completely restored. All of our vintage gym equipment...

Classic mid-century modern ashtray in brown and orange, gold glazed ceramic. The ceramic tray is in good condition. Stamped embossed with “#774 Calif Orig USA ©” This could make an interesting retro trinket tray or small relish dish.