Metal Bookcases

A gorgeous Georgian or Chippendale style lighted breakfront bookcase or dining cabinet By Henkel Harris USA, 1986 Mahogany, with satinwood banding, mullioned glass front doo...

Libreria disegnata da Andrea Branzi per Cassina negli anni '80. Si caratterizza per la sua assoluta purezza sia nelle linee che nella struttura. È sostenuta da una doppia struttura t...

A rare Art Deco period eight-piece study suite set in the manner of famous Austrian architect, designer, and Vienna Secession founder Josef Hoffman (Austria, 1870-1956), circa 1920. Exquisitely handcrafted in Austria in the early 20th century, most likely Vienna, featuring fine quality craftsmanship and solid wood construction, featuring Biedermeier inspired Viennese Art Deco styling of simplicity, strict, geometric lines with minimal surface embellishment, instead of ornamentation putting the focus on high-quality materials. The matching eight-piece set comprising a tanker writing desk with inset leather surface, surmounted with raised gallery fitted with drawers flanking richly figured quilted diamond inlay, rising on double pedestals with locking cupboard doors opening to stacked shelved tray interior, affixed with patinated brass pulls and escutcheons, retaining original keys, finished on all sides so it can be placed anywhere in the room, and paired with a comfortable armchair with upholstered seat and backrest. A large eight door bookcase storage cabinet with original glass panels, adjustable shelves, and cocktail drinks bar slide. A centre card table with rectangular shaped canted corner top featuring inset green baize felt games playing surface, over conforming apron fitted with dovetailed drawers, rising on square column pedestal, surrounded by four upholstered side chairs. Dimensions: (approx) 79" High, 65" Wide, 21" Deep (largest, cabinet) PROVENANCE / ACQUISITION: Property from the important Estate of Myra Janco Daniels (1925-2022) Naples, Florida. A legendary business woman, philanthropist, and arts advocate who built the institution known today as Artis—Naples and made Naples a cultural destination. Additional info below. Acquired from highly reputable auction house, Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas. Design Signature Auction catalog #8110 Condition Report: Great original antique condition with beautifully aged warm mellow patina. Strong, sturdy and structurally sound. Overall very attractive condition; no significant losses or restorations; wear consistent with over 100 years of age and indicative of use. Delivered cleaned, waxed, hand rubbed polished French patina finish, ready for immediate use and generational enjoyment! ABOUT THE LEGENDARY PREVIOUS OWNER: We normally don't post about the prior owners life, but in the case of Myra Janco Daniels (1925-2022) we felt her incredible story be shared. The arts visionary and advertising Pioneer who helped transform Southwest Florida into a nationally recognized cultural destination, died June 22, three days before her 97th birthday. Daniels was founder and longtime CEO of the Philharmonic Center for the Arts (now Artis-Naples), which since 1989 has brought world-class music, theater, dance, opera, and art to Naples. In 2000, she founded the Naples Museum of Art (now the Baker Museum) on that same campus. After a storied career as an advertising executive in Chicago, Daniels came out of retirement in the early 1980s to spearhead a fund-raising drive for a small classical music ensemble on MarCo Island, which would later become the Naples Philharmonic orchestra. She discovered “a great hunger for the arts,” she later wrote, and soon expanded her fundraising goal to building a permanent home for the orchestra and an arts center for Southwest Florida. Daniels’ vision for the Philharmonic Center was ambitious and unusual – combining world-class performing and visual arts in a single venue. The Community strongly supported the concept, and the Phil, as it became known, gave Naples a national arts profile. Then-First Lady Barbara Bush was in attendance on opening night in November 1989. The Wall Street Journal covered the opening. “Myra Daniels is a dreamer. But unlike most dreamers, Myra is a doer,” the late Muriel Seibert, the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, once said of Daniels. While the arts were a lifelong passion for Daniels, her first career was as a groundbreaking advertising executive in Chicago, where she won national Advertising Woman of the Year honors and was among the first women to head a national ad firm. Daniels said that she used some of the same principles learned in her advertising career to sell Southwest Florida on the arts. “You have to believe in what you’re doing and then you have to get people involved to the point that they feel it’s theirs. That’s what we did.” Born Myra Janco in Gary, Indiana, Daniels was raised during the Great Depression by parents who encouraged her interest in the arts. But her greatest influence growing up was her grandmother Sophie, who, like Daniels, stood only five feet tall but dreamed big. “Sophie showed me what was possible,” Daniels wrote. “Create something that people want and need and you’ll be successful, she said. I always remembered that.” Her grandmother, who ran her own real estate business, experienced some failures “but she always dusted herself off and went back out there swinging. She wanted me to be that way too.” Daniels earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana State and later became an associate professor of marketing at Indiana University, the first woman to hold that position. In her mid-20s, she started Wabash Advertising in Terre Haute, Indiana, which later became affiliated with larger agencies in Chicago and Cleveland. In 1963, she was named executive vice president of Roche, Rickard, Henri, Hurst, Inc. in Chicago. The National Advertising Federation honored Daniels as its Advertising Woman of the Year in 1965, the youngest woman to receive the award. That same year, she became president of a new national agency that she formed with ad man Draper Daniels. The merger was not just a professional one. Draper Daniels, who was responsible for many famous ad campaigns at the time, including the Marlboro Man and was later an inspiration for the Don Draper character on TV’s Mad Men, became her husband in 1967. Myra wrote about their unusual courtship and life together for Chicago magazine, in an article entitled “I Married a Mad Man,” which was included in her book Secrets of a Rutbuster. They ran the Draper Daniels, Incorporated agency, as it was called, until 1977. When Draper wanted to retire to Southwest Florida, Myra Daniels reluctantly left Chicago and advertising, and they settled on MarCo Island. But after Draper died of cancer in 1983, Myra turned her energies to the fundraising Campaign that led to the Philharmonic Center Cultural Complex. Daniels served as CEO of the Philharmonic Center from its inception in the 1980s to her retirement in 2011, building the Phil into a $100 million corporation. During that time, the Naples Philharmonic became a nationally recognized orchestra, with a Grammy nomination, CD and appearances on PBS; and the Naples Museum of Art developed an international reputation. The center also helped change people’s perception of Naples, which had been known mostly for its beaches and golfing. In 2005, Naples was named the Best Small Art Town in America in a book that singled out the Phil. More than just an arts venue, the Philharmonic Center also wove the arts into the culture of the Community, providing public school programs, adult and children’s education classes and workshops, and free concerts throughout Southwest Florida. Edward Villella, legendary dancer with the New York City Ballet and founder of Miami City...

This late nineteenth century Louis XVI mahogany Bibliotheque or bookcase is finished in stunning bronze banding. Bronze-fluted corners flank its two beveled glass doors. The doors open to reveal an interior fitted with four adjustable interior shelves and two lower drawers of dovetail construction. An addition lower drawer below the doors is detailed with a central bronze cartouche surrounded by scrolling leaves and tassels. Each corner of the crown is appointed with a bronze finial. The case rests on Classic Louis XVI finial...

This tall étagère, manufactured in an elegant polygonal brass by Kesterport, is an excellent example of the Hollywood Regency opulence of the 1970s. A brass frame with regal corner d...

French bookcase with breakfront. Also to be used as cupboard for kitchen or dining spaces, our as decorative cabinet or vitrine for accessories and books in living room. Three units,...

Antique Liegoise Neoclassical Whitewashed Bookcase ~ Display Cabinet is an intriguing design, featuring a tailored expression of an architectural ...

UNUSUAL VICTORIAN MAHOGANY DOUBLE-SIDED BOOKCASE England, circa mid-to-late 19th century Item # 209APB28Q This uncommon double-sided bookcase is compo...

18th century Dutch Raised Cabinet ~ Bookcase in Stripped Oak combines stately lines with a casual presence that makes it versatile for a wide variety of decors! The stripped oak fini...

Art Deco library / highboard from Paris (Villa Victor Hugo) around 1925 with an unusual walnut. Original Art Deco furniture from a time full of life and elegance. We get all of our f...

A unique piece, this graphic, playful shelving unit epitomises the Italian post-modern aesthetic, lead by Ettore Sottsass. Both functional and poetic, a white cubic shelving unit see...

A fine and rare 19th century English Regency rosewood and brass inlayed secretary bookcase. Fine quality. Cabinet storage on the bottom.

This high quality display cabinet, by architect Fabrizio Smania for Studio Smania Interni from the “Serie Mitzar” line is made of veneered bird’s-eye briar wood, on the late 1970s early 1980s. In a striking golden yellow/lime hue, the tall cabinet houses four glass shelves, and is anchored by a two-door cabinet with generous storage space at the bottom. With Memphis Milano movement references. This is an extremely rare piece as they only did a very small production of these tall cabinets and this finish. The two doors have brass handles, and the glass shelves are fully adjustable - perfect for whatever shaped ornaments or trinkets you may have, big or small. Also available is a round dining table and a set of four Vienna straw rattan dining chairs in a similar finish and style - don’t hesitate to enquire if you would like to complete the set. These pieces usually wrongly attributed to these designers Fratelli Turri, Fratelli Orsenigo...

Beautiful and extremely rare modulair shelf system designed by Harald Lundqvist for Lizzy Element Möbel Sweden from the 1950's. The three shelfs are adjustable in hight. The cabinet ...

Our shop elevated (literally) this Incredibly versatile Heywood Wakefield display hutch bar with a sleek set of 12" metal hairpin legs. Instead of using only screws, we opted to inst...

A gorgeous Georgian or Chippendale style lighted breakfront bookcase or dining cabinet By Henkel Harris USA, 1978 Mahogany, with satinwood banding, mullioned glass front doo...

Modular furniture "Archimede" designed by Hirozi Fukuoh and produced by Gavina in 1962. These are storage units in veneered paniforte with load-bearing s...

A gorgeous pair of antique Arts & Crafts five-stack barrister bookcases By Shaw Walker USA, Circa 1920s Mahogany, with glass front doors and brass hardware. Measures: 34"...

Pair of vintage chrome étagères or bookshelves with faux marble shelves. There is visible scratching to the tops and some of the shelves. All over signs of wear are present, consiste...

A spectacular 19th-century mahogany vitrine cabinet that could be the star attraction in any room. The slightly curved cabinet is one of a pair in our inventory and come from a priv...

Vintage Danish Abstracta corner bookcase by Poul Cadovius, 1960s. Mid-Century Modern minimalistic shelving unit system Abstracta, Denmark designed in 1962 by Danish architect Poul...

Dive into the charm of the 1960s with our exquisitely restored mid-century modern bookcase. Our expert craftsmen have taken this vintage wall unit and ...

An extraordinary antique empire bookcase in great condition completed and restored by our professional craftsmen team. This elegant piece is th...

This Louis Philippe vitrine was crafted in France during the 19th century from finley bookmatched mahogany. A brass border encompasses the large single pane of glass and faux panel b...

A handsome petite Empire style bookcase from France, circa 1850. Crafted from warm and patinated mahogany with a more recently painted interior in Farrow & Ball Oval Room blue paint....

The desk is designed with a slant front above a single drawer. The bookcase top is fashioned with 2 glass paneled doors. The desk has a bottom shelf as well. Wonderful eye-catchin...

An art deco style triangular geometric corner shelf. Features tempered glass shelves. Brackets along the top allow it to be mounted to the wall. Measures: 63".

Wim Rietveld; Gerrit Rietveld; room divider; bookcase; industrial; shelving unit; industrial design; minimalist; functionality; simplicity; 1960s. Wim Rietveld industrial room div...

19th century French Louis XIV Two-Tiered Bookcase ~ China Buffet is a magnificent example of fine furniture craftsmanship melded with timeless style! Utilizing hand-select quarter-sa...

Beautifully handcrafted, one of a kind, great color and excellent condition, Gothic cloister bookcase. We are always on the lookout for top quality made and impressively handcrafted...

An English two part black and gold breakfront bookcase from the late 19th century with Chinoiserie décor, gilded Greek Key and floral décor, chicken wire doors, drawers and additional wooden doors. Created in England during the last quarter of the 19th century, this tall bookcase attracts immediately our attention with its tall proportions and stunning black and gold colors. Made of two parts, this breakfront bookcase is adorned with a molded cornice with carved dentil molding and a gilded Greek Key frieze, sitting above four doors presenting chicken wire. These doors open to a light painted interior with convenient shelves. The lower section, decorated with an exquisite Chinoiserie décor, is made of three drawers followed by four doors with red lacquered interior. Peaceful and traditional scenes present Chinese figures in landscapes and architectures, engaged in their daily occupations: crossing a narrow bridge, horse riding, net fishing, one can imagine the serenity of such a life. The sides are also adorned with lovely foliage and the back is plain. With its breakfront lines and skillfully executed décor, this English Chinoiserie bookcase...

A Mid Century in Faux Bronze finish brass having a Bamboo form with 5 glass shelves having cantered corners. Ringed elements creating bamboo form elements. Dimensions: 74 1/4" H, 3...

An architectural design four shelves étagère made from fine walnut, brass and glass. Produced in Italy, circa 1950s.

A Fine example of a two part fruitwood breakfront china cabinet, bookcase, or server, its upper case with a burled walnut veneer central pediment ...

Lovely vintage Chinoiserie or Campaign style off-white lighted display cabinet with faux wrapped rattan edges by Drexel. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that this is vintage and not new so will have signs of use and wear. There are a few dings or nicks in the finish and along the bottom edge of piece at floor but nothing major. There is also an overall yellowing or fading to the finish which we consider patina. The inside is purposefully a lighter color than the outside. Please see photos and zoom in for details. We attempt to portray any imperfections. Circa, Mid-20th Century. Is this a marvelous Display Cabinet? Yes! What about a stunning Bookcase? Yes! Could it be a wonderful China Hutch? Also, YES!! This gorgeous cabinet is comprised of a one-piece off-white painted unit with four lower doors (or 2 double doors) with antiqued brass plated rings or handles and open storage with a shelf behind each set of double doors. The top portion is lighted and features two tall narrow double doors with glass...

Outstanding quality antique George II mahogany bureau bookcase having a shaped cornice above a mirrored door bookcase opening to adjustable shelves, candle slide above the bureau ful...

Scandinavian bookshelf from the 1960s. It is made out of wood and a blackened tubular metal structure. It's composed of a cabinet with a glass d...

Sophisticated and very rare wall unit by Vittorio Dassi for Mobili Cantù - Italy, circa 1950-60. The inside of the cabinets and drawers are covered very luxuriously in Birch veneer and red felt. The inside shelves are made of Birch and some of glass. The large cabinet features a fold out bar...

Beautiful heavy oak two piece cabinet with adjustable shelving, decorative panels and arched glass doors. This is a well built cabinet originally...

Cabinet with hinged doors in smoked glass and exotic wood veneer, chromed aluminium band.

This Gianluigi Gorgoni briar burl wood display cabinet from the 1970s, made for Fratelli Turi, is an exceptional and unique piece of furnitur...

Enzo Mari Dima modular wall shelving system for Simon International Dima Italy, circa 1970 Enameled steel, shelves adjustable with solid plastic holders...

This pair of etageres is designed after the style of Milo Baughman, who popularized chrome etageres. This pair has four shelves per piece, all of a gray-black light smoky tint that c...

Scandinavian teak bookcase shelves or panel system designed by Finn Juhl and produced by Bovirke composed of 10 shelves and 1 container with sliding doors...

Figured wood veneer, the top with a carved cornice over double doors. They open to two shelves over drawers and cubby holes. A middle frieze with three drawers (lacking a key) over t...

1930s Art Deco Bookcase, in the manner of Gilbert Rohde, American, circa 1930s. This came from the same estate as the Gilbert Rohde for Herman Miller desk...

A rare Memphis design bookcase cabinet from the "Donau" series designed in 1986 by Ettore Sottsass and Marco Zanini for the Austrian furniture maker...

A gorgeous antique Mission oak Arts & Crafts five-stack barrister bookcase By Lundstrom USA, Circa 1920s Oak, with glass front doors and brass hardware. Measures: 33.75" ...

19th century French Neoclassical Open Bookcase is a magnificent work of the cabinetmaker's art, separated into an upper and lower tier that together create both display and storage in style! The crown features an intriguing design accented with pyramidal blocks, appearing over two corner pilasters carved with stylized quatrefoil overlay that embrace the upper open-shelved section. The upper tier sets upon a lower cabinet that is in effect a small buffet, with a pair of fluted drawers fitted with cast brass pulls presiding over two beautifully carved cabinet door...

Double-bodied bookcase display case by Vittorio Dassi, rosewood veneered with ebonized profiles, mahogany details, brass tips, black glass. The moved sides support the body of the cabinet at the base 4 doors, the side doors and handles in mahogany stained wood, above the doors follows a mahogany stained band that houses the floor in black glass. The upper part has 5 doors at the sides 2 with inlay typical of the 900 Milanese, in the middle 2 glass doors divided...

We are delighted to offer for sale 1 of 2 Laura Ashley military campaign bookcases. I have two of these in stock, this is the smaller one and then a slightly larger one which is l...

Wall Unit; Bookcase; E22; Osvaldo Borsani; Tecno; 1960s; Italian Design; Shelves; Writing Desk; Working Desk; Table; Writing Table; Wall Piece; Modular; Italian mid-century moder...

A Vintage Mahogany Globe Wernicke Bookcase – the perfect addition to any home or office space! Crafted from high-quality mahogany wood, this bookcase is about 100 years old but still...

A refined etagere of rectilinear form in mahogany and brass having a lower cabinet with folding doors resting square brass legs, supporting an upper cabinet with doors, glass shelves...

Dassi wall unit, bookcase and a radiator covering Part of a unique living room Two shelves, a door covered by several glass sheets, two frontal door...

Red Italian etagere, very much in the manner of the Memphis Milano group, and originating from the 1980s. A tubular, powder-coated metal frame in a pleasing vermillion houses five cl...

Elegant multipurpose furniture for living room or dining room in beech, Italian production from the early 1950s. The sideboard has a decorated sliding door, covering an internal s...

Paul Evans midcentury Chrome Cityscape Wall Shelf Bookshelf This bookshelf measures: 37.25 wide x 9.75 deep x 80 inches high All pieces of furniture can be had in what we call ...