French Art Deco Ebonized Bookcase (Manner of Pierre Chareau)

French Art Deco (1925) ebonized two-piece cabinet with the bottom section containing two large sliding doors flanked on the right by three smaller drawers and the top section having ...

Austrian Biedermeier (Circa 1825) walnut veneer and ebonized trimmed bookcase with demilune 3 drawer commode base and upper section with 2 doors and 4 small drawers.

Pair of French Regence-style cream painted and gilt trimmed bookcase cabinets with 2 glass front doors with gilt pilaster column sides above 2 lower doors with a diamond design. (PRI...

Pair of French Art Deco calamander wood bookcase cabinets with two open book shelves.  

French Empire-style (19th Century) mahogany bookcase cabinet with bronze trim and 2 glass doors.

Pair of Russian (Circa 1820) plum pudding mahogany bookcase cabinets with brass trim and "X" design on 2 front doors, with 2 lower doors and fall...

Art Deco bookcase / cabinet in the style of Paul T. Frankl. Although the desciption says "In the style of Paul T.Frankl, the object can certainly be attributed to him. It has the typ...

A fantastic ebonized wood cabinet with extensive storage with two large lateral doors opening to shelves, central open storage and sliding glass windows for display. Hardware/meda...

The best word I can think of to describe our newest find is; Presence. This absolutely incredibly elegant Très grande bibliotheque from Nîmes, France, simply makes the room, with its undeniable presence. Whether it’s the mammoth scale of the bookcase, or the combination of the ebonized walnut and the indescribable painted interior colour (we’re still searching for a name), something just clicked and made our antique bookcase quite special. Finding a genuine antique French bookcase, that measures roughly twelve and a half feet in length, that was not assembled from a bunch of old wood bits sitting around a guy’s workshop, is a rare occurrence. In our over 30-years of importing from Europe, we might have had two or three that were genuine. This huge antique French bookcase was fabricated from French solid walnut and certainly dates from the 1800’s. Look carefully at the wavy hand-made glass and that pretty much tells the whole story, for we are unaware that anyone produces new glass this good. Generally, when you find a bookcase, or display cabinet of this stature, you’ll discover that its history was probably from a public institution, be it a school, library, or even a high-end department store, but generally they are deathly tired. Fortunately, that was not the case with this antique French bookcase. Our antique bibliotheque was discovered in the town of Nîmes, a city in the Occitanie region of southern France. Little history; Nîmes was an important part of the Roman Empire and the city is most famous for the Arena of Nîmes, a double-tiered circa-70 A.D. amphitheater still in use today. Also, the famous Pont du Gard...

A truly beautiful and well preserved B10 bookcase with adjustable shelves, designed by Pierre Chapo and was made in his own atelier in France, 1960. The B10 is one of the more famili...

A bookcase or display cabinet originally designed by Robert Adam in 1761 and made by John Linnell, with scrolled pediment centred by acanthus spray, flanked with swagged urns. Gadroo...

A truly beautiful and well preserved large sized B10 bookcase with adjustable shelves, designed by Pierre Chapo and made in his own atelier in France, 1960. The B10 is one of the mor...