Art Nouveau Bench by Camille Gauthier

This Camille Gauthier “Capucines” games table was an Art Nouveau take on the 18th century Turret-top card table, popular across the courts of Europe and their colonies. Their form wa...

A French Art Nouveau walnut wood sellette by Eugène Gaillard. The sellette has three shelves. The middle shelf extends beyond the carved, curving legs in two directions. It is suppor...

A French Art Nouveau marquetry commode by Émile Gallé. With original key. Circa 1890. The syncretic influence of Japanese art is keenly felt in Gallé's commode. The beginning of Galle's fascination with Japanese art can be traced back to his friendship with Hokkai Takashima (1850-1931), a fellow botanist and member of the École de Nancy. Their botanical dialogue was facilitated by the Shokobutsu mei-i, a book of Japanese names for botanical species. It is from Hokkai that Gallé gained a spiritual and symbolic understanding of nature. Along with other École de Nancy artists, Hokkai and Gallé exhibited together in the display window of René Wiener's papeterie. The store served as the office of Wiener's arts journal, the Nancy artiste, which regularly featured on its covers contemporary examples of Gansai (Japanese watercolor), Byōbu (folding screens) from the Rinpa school, Sumi-e (ink painting), and Ukiyo-e (woodblock prints). As a show of gratitude, Hokkai bequeathed a vast art book collection to Wiener. It is from this record that we know with certainty of which Japanese artists Gallé had knowledge. One of the books in Hokkai's collection was Hokusai's Les cent paysages du Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei.) This 1835 expansion of Hokusai's 36 views of Mount Fuji...

A French Art Nouveau mahogany salon table with fruitwood marquetry by Louis Majorelle. The table top is decorated with leaves and vines. The legs have carved flowers, circa 1900. ...

A French Art Nouveau "Femme à la Coloquinte," glazed ceramic inkwell by François-Rupert Carabin. The inkwell feature a nude woman embracing an unusually large gourd, circa 1900. A s...

A French enameled and etched glass vase with applied handles by Daum. The vase has a pink martelé background. There is carving on the dark green footed base. It is decorated with lig...

SET of 6 French Art Nouveau side chairs with the backs having a centered carved ombelle and foliate reticulated frame (NOTE: 2 upholstered in a gold velvet damask, 4 unupholstered) (...

Fabulous suite of ten, hand-carved, painted and parcel-gilt, Florentine benches with contemporary, wave-form upholstery. NOTE: ONLY 6 REMAINING

Art Nouveau oak bench, circa 1900.

Original art nouveau folding bench, circa 1900.

A fine French Art Nouveau upholstered mahogany bench.

French Art Nouveau bench, sofa by Louis Majorelle, 1900-1910 A beautiful sofa with a highly polished wooden frame, covered with satin fabric with an Art Nouveau pattern. Beautifully...