Grand Tour Home Accents
GRAND TOUR STYLE
For 18th-century young British noblemen, no education was complete without a year on the Grand Tour. Although it had no official route, the Grand Tour focused on places foundational to European art, literature and architecture, including sites in France, Germany, Switzerland and, most importantly, Italy. It was an opportunity not just to witness the roots of the classics they had studied but also to take some of it home. Grand Tour furniture was among the souvenirs.
Grand Tour furniture ranged from marble architectural models replicating ancient wonders to actual antiquities often taken illicitly, leaving a legacy of looting still being unraveled today. Other items reflected the artistic richness of the Renaissance cities and other destinations. In Italy, this included scagliola tables and pedestals mimicking marble as well as tabletops and wall panels embedded with pietra dura hard stone mosaics.
Furniture was also developed to display Grand Tour purchases in the owner’s home, presenting them as a cultivated and well-traveled person. Mahogany collector’s cabinets held objects like intaglio moldings of coins and seals while others had specialized drawers that framed pietra dura panels.
Many objects were specifically produced for Grand Tour collectors. Often accompanied by retinues on journeys lasting months or years, the elite travelers, the wealthiest of whom extended their trips to Egypt and the Holy Land, required artful personal mementos befitting the experience. For example, Grand Tour micromosaics — small artworks, most not more than two inches wide — arose from the entrepreneurial impulses of artisans who had trained in the Vatican’s workshops.
Grand Tour journeys would help inform a range of decorative styles such as neoclassical, Rococo and Adam style. (Architect and designer Robert Adam toured Italy and France for five years.) The Grand Tour flourished at a time of economic prosperity and political stability, but the French Revolution in 1789 brought it to an end. Yet as the tradition faded in popularity in England, the rising wealth of the United States led to an increase in tourism across the Atlantic and a similar passion for collecting to show one’s worldliness.
Find a collection of Grand Tour decorative objects, wall decorations, lighting and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Grand Tour
18/19 C. Italian Grand Tour Fine Antique Mixed Marble and Scagliola Obelisk
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic 18th/19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Mixed Marble and Scagliola Obelisk. This grand tour Italian mixed marble and scagliola obelisk mixes Egyptian architecture in...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Pair 19th Century Painted Pine Corinthian Column Pedestals
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Pair 19th century painted pine Corinthian column pedestals in the classical Italian style with scrolling acanthus leaves and fluted detailing. The pair are finished in an off-white p...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Pine
A Near Pair of Venetian 19th Century Blue Lapis Lazuli and Marble Obelisks
Located in London, GB
A Near Pair of Lapis Lazuli Obelisks
Veneered with the rare and semi-precious deep blue lapis admired for its intense colour, each obelisk with Carrara marble bases and moulding.
Pr...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Carrara Marble
Travertine Stone Mediterrane Mid-Century Modern Obelisks Grand Your Style
By Raymor
Located in Miami, FL
1980s Italian Beige Travertine Stone Obelisk in the Style of Grand Tour.
Look great as display and also very useful as bookends.
Handcrafted and Parts of Label at the base.
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Travertine
Pair of Grand Tour Style Carved Alabaster Bookends Formed as Classical Ruins
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very good pair of architectural inspired columnar bookends, both carved in the form of ancient ruins of reeded columns, raised on stepped bases. Dimensions noted are those shown fa...
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Mid-20th Century European Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Alabaster
Italian Alabaster Obelisks - A Pair
Located in Savannah, GA
A pair of Italian alabaster obelisks, mid 20th century. With removable caps and drilled for lamp conversion.
larger: 5 inches wide by 20 inches tall
smaller: 4 ¼ inches wide by 14 ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Alabaster
Matching Pair Grand Tour Bronze Greco Male Figurine Bookends On Alabaster Base
Located in High Wycombe, GB
A Stunning and Unusual Pair of Matching Grand Tour Bronze Spelter Greek Male Figurines on Alabaster Bases.
The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a...
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Mid-19th Century Greek Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze, Spelter
Pair of Italian Grand Tour Carved Yellow Alabaster Bookends
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Grand Tour Column Bookends in Yellow Carved Alabaster from Italy, circa 1960s
Bookends are marked with authentic period stickers "Hand Carved", "Archer ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Alabaster
Pair Of Antique Putto Bookends, Italian, Decor, Cherub, Grand Tour, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of antique putto bookends. An Italian, plaster decorative cherub book rest in Grand Tour taste, dating to the early Victorian period, circ...
Category
1850s Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Plaster
Specimen Marble Obelisks, Grand Tour Style
Located in El Monte, CA
A superb pair of specimen marble obelisks constructed from a variety of specimen marbles. The highly decorative and large scale pair complements traditional and contemporary interiors.
Category
20th Century Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Pair of Grand Tour Greek Revival Bronze Urns on Marble Bases
Located in Essex, MA
Each vase with scrolled handles resting on "griotte rouge" marble bases.
Category
1870s French Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
19th Century French Grand Tour Style Eight Panel Painted Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic monumental late 19th century French painted oil on canvas folding eight-panel screen. The large screen measures over 14 feet long and features neoclassical and grand tour t...
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19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Orange-Brown Banded Jasper Point
Located in New York, NY
Unusual orange and brown banded jasper point from Madagascar.
Category
2010s Malagasy Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Stone
Antique Bronze Roaring Tiger Bookends, Pair
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous pair of Neoclassical or Grand Tour style bronze bookends in the form of roaring tigers.
USA, Late 19th century
Measures: 7.75"W x 4.75"D x 9"H.
Good original vin...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
Early 20th Century Mahogany Plinth in the Form of a Classical-Style Column
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 20th century mahogany plinth in the form of a classical-style fluted column with carved Ionic scrolling and Corinthian foliate detail to the capital.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Mahogany
Siena Marble Obelisk Pair
Located in Leeds, GB
A pair of obelisks made from Siena marble with black marble ball detail. In the style of those collected on The Grand Tour.
Made in Italy in the first part of the 20th Century.
A c...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Siena Marble
Pink Marble Obelisk in the Style of the Grand Tour
Located in London, GB
A Large Marble Obelisk from Italy in the style of the Grand Tour collectibles. This piece would look perfect in your wunderkammer collection or set on y...
Category
20th Century Italian Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Stone, Marble
Pair of Black Marble and Bronze Obelisks "Gold Lizard", Limited Edition, 2017
Located in Rome, IT
pair of italian marble and bronze obelisks " GOLD LIZARD" -grand tour collection- produced by Lorenzo Ciompi, 2017
designed, produced and executed directly in exclusivity for COMPEN...
Category
2010s Italian Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Bronze
Monumental Marble Inlaid Obelisks, Grand Tour Style
Located in El Monte, CA
Unique monumental Italian 19th Century Grand Tour Style Specimen marble inlaid obelisks. Marble is precisely cut and inlaid into a fine two-tone...
Category
20th Century European Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Pair Of Italian Grand Tour Marble Obelisks
Located in Essex, MA
Typical form with different marbles.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Large Pair of Antique Grand Tour Period Multi-Marble Columns Mounted as Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A Large Pair of Antique Italian Grand Tour Period Multi-Marble Columns Turned to Lamps. These are truly beautiful in quality, size, condition, and material. Each is expertly hand-car...
Category
1840s Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Carrara Marble, Breccia Marble, Marble
Zuber Six Panel Wallpaper Screen The Hunting Landscape
By zuber
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Magnificent 19th century six panel wallpaper screen by Zuber and Cie. The screen features six hand blocked wallpaper panels from "Le Paysage a Chasses" o...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Wood, Paper
Pair of Grand Tour Porphyry and Sienna Marble Obelisks, Italian, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The porphyry obelisks on sienna 'marmo giallo' and porphyry base, condition: 2 small cracks on 1 base and a repair to the other on top of base. Condition commensurate with age and use.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble, Porphyry
Pair of Monumental Marble Obelisks, White #2
Located in Berlin, DE
Extremely rare and decorative obelisk pair. Various types of marble an absolute rarity and a guaranteed eye-catcher in every interior. Measures: 73.2 inch.
(U-Hud-2).
Category
20th Century Italian Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Pair of Large 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Black Marble Nero Antico Obelisks
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
A very attractive pair of Italian Grand Tour black marble obelisks. Detailed hieroglyphics to the front side, on a green marble plinth. Minor corner chips to both obelisks, otherwise...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Pair of Monumental English Regency Framed Italian 18C Painted Tapestries
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING an EXCEPTIONAL Pair of Monumental English Regency Framed Italian 18C Painted Tapestries/Paintings.
We are of the firm opinion, that these tapestries were made and hand-pa...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Burlap, Mahogany
Pair of Terracotta Lions, after Canova, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The pair of recumbent lions facing towards each other.
Category
19th Century English Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Terracotta
Pair of Breccia Medicea Marble and Bronze Obelisks, "Crabs", Limited Edition 2018
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of Italian marble and bronze obelisks Crabs -Grand Tour collection- produced by Lorenzo Ciompi, 2018.
Designed, produced and executed directly in exclusivity for Compendio Gall...
Category
2010s Italian Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Breccia Marble, Bronze
Pair of Portoro Marble and Bronze Obelisks "Gold Lion", Limited Edition, 2018
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of Italian portoro marble and bronze obelisks, gold lion -Grand Tour collection-
produced by Lorenzo Ciompi, 2017 designed, produced and executed directly in exclusivity for Co...
Category
2010s Italian Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of Italian Red Marble and Bronze Obelisks "Acanthus", Limited Edition, 2017
Located in Rome, IT
pair of italian marble and bronze obelisks, ACANTHUS , -grand tour collection- produced by Lorenzo Ciompi, 2017
designed, produced and executed directly in exclusivity for COMPENDIO GALLERY on limited edition of 10
all the bronze details was made expressly from a important roman bronzist from original cast model by Bottega Valadier and others neoclassic models-end XVIII° century
red levanto italian...
Category
2010s Italian Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble, Bronze
An Antique Grand Tour Period "Rosso Antico" Red Marble Obelisk Column w/ Flame
Located in New York, NY
A very finely carved 19th century Grand Tour period "Rosso Antico" marble souvenir, including Egyptian Obelisk with a Flame Finial. It is inscribed with gilt Latin lettering describi...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Onyx Obelisks Grand Tour Style Italy Bookend Home Accents Room Accessoire
By Raymor
Located in Miami, FL
This is a tall vibrant Onyx Obelisks or Bookend with natural details and sleek splendor lines. Attributed to Raymor and made in Italy circa late 1970s.
Note the natural banded patter...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Onyx
Pair 19th C. Grand Tour Rouge Marble Obelisks of Montecitorio w/ Hieroglyphics
Located in New York, NY
A Marvelous Pair of 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Rouge Marble Obelisks of Montecitorio w/ Hieroglyphics. This magnificent example of the grand tour souvenirs that were popular in the 19th century are very rare to find in this size, quality, condition and form. These obelisks are made from a beautiful rouge marble and are adorned with intricate hieroglyphics, adding to their unique and exotic appeal. Each obelisk stands at an impressive height, making them an imposing decorative item for any room. The base of each obelisk is square-shaped and has a stepped design, adding to their visual interest. The obelisks also have a tapered shape, which is typical of ancient Egyptian obelisks.
The hieroglyphics that adorn the obelisks are expertly carved and add to their historical appeal. The hieroglyphics are a form of ancient Egyptian writing, and they were commonly used to decorate ancient Egyptian monuments...
Category
1850s Italian Antique Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Pair of Italian Marble and Bronze Obelisks " Venere", Limited Edition, 2017
Located in Rome, IT
pair of italian verde alpi marble and bronze obelisks "VENERE" -grand tour collection- produced by Lorenzo Ciompi, 2017
designed, produced and executed directly in exclu...
Category
2010s Italian Grand Tour Home Accents
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Grand Tour home accents for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Grand Tour home accents for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage home accents created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, decorative objects, building and garden elements and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with stone, marble and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Grand Tour home accents made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original home accents, popular names associated with this style include Lorenzo Ciompi, and zuber. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for home accents differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $296 and tops out at $38,000 while the average work can sell for $3,042.
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