Modern Lage Bookcase, Black, Walnut, Handmade in Portugal by Greenapple

Set of 2 Lage Bookcases, Contemporary Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple. An asymmetrical design that will unsettle even the mos...

Set of 2 large bookcases, Contemporary collection, handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple. An asymmetrical design that will unsettle even the most obedient. This bookcase ...

Hobart Bookcase, Contemporary Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple. The world changes when we change our perspective. In this sense, Hobart was born to mimic t...

Hobart bookcase, Contemporary Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple. The world changes when we change our perspective. In this sense, Hobart was born to mimic...

Hobart bookcase, Contemporary Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple. The world changes when we change our perspective. In this sense, Hobart was born to mimic...

Menir Console, Contemporary Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple. Inspired by the purest architectural structures, Menir console t...

For sale is a good quality George I walnut secretary bookcase, having a domed cornice above a bevelled mirror door enclosing two shelves. The...

Nicely detailed and compact, with multiple storage options, this Danish design provides an efficient workspace in a small footprint. Ideal for home or office, it features two shelves...

A delightful George I period walnut bureau bookcase Of diminutive proportions having recently re-silvered Original bevelled mirror glass ...

A superb and exceptionally well proportioned early 18th century figured walnut ‘pagoda topped’ double dome bureau bookcase, circa 1720 England. The upper section is surmounted with what is believed to be the original solid walnut finials and soft bevelled mirror plates, opening to a removal bank of walnut veneered and feather banded drawers, cantered by pigeonholes below two shelves. Candle slides are neatly stowed below the bookcase doors to reflect the light. To the moulded bureau, the fall opens to reveal pigeonholes, long and short asymmetric drawers each beautifully veneered in figured walnut and feather banded, cantered by a cupboard door which neatly conceals an open compartment and drawer. Below the fall, two short and two long graduating oak lined drawers are each book-matched in superb sections of hand-cut figured walnut veneers over bun feet. It should be noted that this exceptional desk and bookcase, is not only of the finest cuts of figured walnut veneer but exquisitely made at the pinnacle of design which had gradually evolved predominantly in London, during the late 17thand early 18thcentury. The actual description 'desk-and-bookcase' appears to be first recorded in the accounts of the Royal cabinet-maker Gerrit Jensen (fl.1680-d.1715) who supplied several for the Royal Household from 1710 (Bowett, op. cit.), and another described as 'a walnut writing desk, the top for books and patons and glass in the doors asked' for the 5th Earl of Salisbury, Hatfield House.  Another maker of this form of desk was the London cabinet-maker John Gumley (1691-1727) who advertised in Richard Steele's Lover on April 24 1714 that he 'hath taken for a Ware-house, and furnished all the upper part of the New Exchange in the Strand' continuing with an extensive list of his stock including 'Desks and Bookcases.' In 1714 he supplied one of these in walnut to James 1st Duke of Montrose for the sum of £11. Russian cabinetwork of this period was strongly influenced by Tsar Peter I return to Russia after his studies in London. He subsequently sent twenty-four cabinetmakers who were working in Amsterdam to London to train as furniture makers. One of these cabinetmakers named Fedor Martynov made furniture for the Empress Anna Ioannovna. Martynovs drawings are almost identical to the present piece. Literature Mallett’s Great English Furniture, London: Bullfinch Press 1991, p.248, fig 287, by Lanto Synge, English Furniture 1660-1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, by Dr Adam Bowett, Woodbridge: Antique Collector’s Club, 2002 Chapter 7 Case Furniture 1689–1714 pp.221-223 fig. 7:53 A walnut bureau bookcase of the same form and period sold from the private collection of Patricia Kluge...

A large antique Victorian cylinder secretary offers carved foliate crown on enclosed bookcase with double glass doors surmounting cylinder...

A very impressive 18th Century Rococo carved giltwood and Walnut bureau bookcase, having wonderful scrolling foliate and plume decoration to the cornice, a single mirror door with gi...