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Art Deco French E.J Ruhlmann Bookcase, Hardwood, Brass and Lemongrass
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind refined bookcase by E.J Ruhlman workshop French Art Deco, in an refined hardwood and lemon wood in the interior, brass to frame and embellish. It has one door on the to...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Frits Henningsen Book Cases in Mahogany
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Frits Henningsen book cases in mahogany. With shelves and doors. Keys included.
Profilated details.
Made in the 1940's.
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Large Bookcase Vitrine Black Patina, circa 1940
Located in Roubaix, FR
Large bookcase vitrine circa 1940 in pine structure and plywood panels with black patina, 4 doors with glass and 4 fill doors and 2 drawers. Comes appart in 2 parts bottom part is 30...
Category
European Industrial Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Gilbert Rohde Paldao Secretary Display Case for Herman Miller
Located in Hudson, NY
Bookcase with drop-front secretary desk and storage drawers in paldao wood. Glass dividers separate storage compartments, and cork-lined back. Retains Herman Miller tag. Great origin...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Paldao
Art Deco Round Shape Macassar Wood and Goat Skin Italian Bookcases, 1940
Located in Rome, IT
Stylish Italian Art Deco library, this bookshelf has a very luxurious look, due to the use of uncommon materials, Macassar wood, goatskin and brass and Murano glass for the handles.
...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Gio Ponti Bookcases, Unique Piece, Italy, circa 1940
Located in Beirut, LB
Gio Ponti
Library from the private residence of an Italian collector
A certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti archives is provided.
Walnut, silk, glass
Handles by Fontana Ar...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Fabric, Walnut, Lacquer
1940s Pair of Bookcases, Cerused Oak, Removable Shelves, France
Located in Girona, ES
Pair of bookcases with base, solid oak with cerused oak veneer. Removable shelves.
France, circa 1940.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Oak
French Art Deco Rosewood Sideboard
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco sideboard or bookcase on plinth base with shelving. Inside shelves are adjustable. Has brass and nickel handles.
Each measures: 39" H x 44" W x 16" D.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Gilbert Rohde for Herman Miller Paldao Group Bookcases, Newly Refinished
Located in South Bend, IN
An extremely rare and exceptional pair of Mid-Century Modern bookcase cabinets
Designed by Gilbert Rohde for Herman Miller "Paldao Group"
USA, 1940s
Exotic book-matched pald...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Paldao
Mid Century Industrial Polished Steel Stacking Barrister Bookcase
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Classic 5 sectional stacking bookcase in polished and lacquered steel. 3 storage sections with a top cap and a bottom with feet. Square style that works perfectly. Interior space is ...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Steel
Maple Six Section Stacking Barrister Bookcase
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Rare barrister bookcase in maple. 4 storage sections with a top and footed base. Top section has a storage capacity of 32 x 9.5 x 8.25 H, other 3 sections are 32 x 9.5 x 10.25 H. Cab...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Maple
Gilded Walnut and Ebonized Grosfeld House Attr. Hollywood Regency Étagères, Pair
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a beautiful pair of étagères that have been designed in the Hollywood Regency or French Empire taste. The étagères are in good condition. The étagères measure 71 tall x 30 wi...
Category
American Empire Revival Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Art Deco Bibus Library in Ceruse Oak, Signed, circa 1940-1950
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Art Deco bibus library in ceruse oak, signed, circa 1940-1950.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Oak
Schmieg & Kotzian Federal Mahogany and Crotch Grain Walnut Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a fine quality breakfront bookcase from one of America's finest manufacturers in our nation's history. This incredibly well made, crotch grain walnut and solid mahogany break...
Category
American Federal Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Walnut
Jacques Adnet Leather Wrapped Bronze Bookshelf
Located in New York, NY
Incredible black leather two tiered shelf by Jacques Adnet with signature saddle stitched faux bamboo legs, original glass and bronze hardware detailing.
This would make an excellent...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Jacques Adnet French Modernist Leather Wrapped Shelves
Located in New York, NY
Incredible black leather two tiered shelf by Jacques Adnet with signature saddle stitched faux bamboo legs, original glass and bronze hardware detailing.
This would make an excellent...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Vintage Green Leather Topped Mahogany Revolving Bookcases Side Tables
Located in London, GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of green leather topped mahogany framed revolving bookcases, circa 1940s-1960s.
A good looking and well made pair, they have En...
Category
English Regency Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Exceptional Ebonized French Deco Cabinet
By Contaux
Located in East Hampton, NY
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...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
1947 Osvaldo Borsani, Marcello Piccardo for Arredamenti Borsani Varedo Library
Located in Firenze, IT
Modular library realized by Osvaldo Borsani in 1947 for Arredamenti Borsani Varedo, lacquered rosewood adjustable shelving system and drawers with artistic decorative doors by artist...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Rosewood
1940s Bookcase by Rene Gabriel
By Rene Gabriel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
1940s bookcase by Rene Gabriel in black waxed lacquer, consisting of two doors, black lacquer exterior and mahogany inside with shelves. Set of three large shelves in the center.
...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Wood
Borsani Signed "Atelier of Varedo Mobili D'arte" Italian Bookcase, 1940
Located in Rome, IT
Wonderful Borsani bookcase in maple wood, with perfect "breadstick" workmanship on the front and embellished with three central handles.
High sideboard of the Borsani Atelier of Var...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Gilbert Rohde Paldao Bookcase Cabinet with Secretary Desk, Newly Restored
Located in South Bend, IN
An extremely rare and exceptional Mid-Century Modern bookcase cabinet with drop-front secretary desk
Designed by Gilbert Rohde for Herman Miller "Paldao Group"
USA, 1940s
Ex...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Paldao
Box and Wall Unit String Shelf Rack System by Nisse Strinning, 1960s
Located in Greven, DE
Box and wall unit string shelf rack system by Nisse Strinning, 1960s
Original and rare String System. One box (78 cm W x 30 cm D x 42 cm H), 3 shelves (78 cm W x 30 cm D), 3 white la...
Category
Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Metal
Grosfeld House Secretary Bookcase by Lorin Jackson
Located in Hingham, MA
Lorin Jackson for Grosfeld House 1940s cabinet bookcase in mahogany featuring a pull-out secretary with writing surface.
Distinctive Grosfeld "Glassic" Lucite ring pulls with sunbu...
Category
American Hollywood Regency Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Neoclassical Inspired Étagère
Located in New York, NY
Neoclassical inspired étagère in the style of Jansen.
Ebonized fruitwood with patinated brass details and a marble top.
Category
French Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Marble, Brass
Edward Wormley for Dunbar End Table with Book Shelf
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Edward Wormley 1940s end table/ bookcase designed for Dunbar Furniture. Retains original finish that shows some wear. Use as is or refinish in your color choice! Retains original label.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Ebonized Lucite Mirrored Lorin Jackson Grosfeld House Hollywood Regency Vitrine
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is an original black lacquer and Lucite vitrine designed by Lorin Jackson for Grosfeld House circa 1940. The cabinet has it's original florescent lighting system and is in very ...
Category
American Hollywood Regency Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Shelving System Designed by Bruno Mathsson for Karl Mathsson, Sweden, 1940s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Lacquered steel, birch and pine.
Note: Only half of the system is pictures, i.e. only 200 cm.
Measures: Total length 400 cm/ 13' 1 1/2"
H 245 cm/ 8' 2 1/4".
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Steel
Tall Wood Étagère Marked Smithsonian Institution
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1940s tall wood étagère marked Smithsonian Institution. Pullout shelf. Brass hardware. Measures: 6’.
Category
Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century in the style of Charles Dudouyt Bookcase in Cerused Oak
Located in Miami, FL
Superb piece of furniture excellent craftsmanship, in cerused golden oak, typical work in the style of the well knowned French designer Charles Dudouyt. Simple and very architectural...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Oak
English Mahogany Bookcase
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1940s English mahogany bookcase with bottom drawer.
Measurements:
Height 10"
Width 27"
Depth 11".
Category
English Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Vintage Restored Solid Pine Glass Doored Library Bookcase Also Hanging Cabinet
Located in London, GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely solid pine library bookcase with glass doors and adjustable shelves
A good looking and well made bookcase, circa 1940, we have clean...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Pine
Mid Century Modern Italian Cabinet by Osvaldo Borsani
Located in London, GB
Large cabinet with carved doors by Osvaldo Borsani, with carving by Voltan. The interior is currently fitted for coat hanging but this could be easily converted into a bookcase if re...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Fruitwood
20th Century English Burr Walnut Bookcase or Breakfront
Located in Savannah, GA
This is a bookcase, breakfront, cabinet or cupboard made in England, circa 1940. It is made of a beautiful Burr Walnut and is of the finest quality. It is completely bench made (all ...
Category
English George IV Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
1940s Original Remington Rand Library Cart / Bookcase / Rolling Bar
Located in Oakville, CT
Authentic 1940s library cart made by 'Remington Rand Library Bureau Div - Made in USA' - Four cast iron casters read - 'Kilian Manufacturing Corp. Syracuse N.Y.' - Structurally sound...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Midcentury Italian Walnut Sideboard/Library Grissinato Processing by Paolo Buffa
By Paolo Buffa
Located in Milano, IT
1940sIn by Paolo Buffa excellent condition, in walnut with wood processing "grissinato" beautifully restored sideboard / library brass keys.
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Art Deco China Closet J. Halabala from 1950
Located in Kraków, Małopolska
We present beautiful and elegant China closet Art Deco J. Halabala from 1950.Jindrich Halabala - (a Czech designer ranked among the most outstanding creators of the modern period. ...
Category
Czech Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
1940s Widdicomb Mahogany Bookcase Secretary
Located in Chicago, IL
Predating T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings' work for Widdicomb, this most useful secretary was designed by C.g. Kimerly, as part of Widdicomb's Flexi-Unit collection.
Constructed of mahogany...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Maple, Glass
Art Deco Bookcases Walnut from 1950
Located in Kraków, Małopolska
We present beautiful and elegant Art Deco bookcases from 1950, from Vienna, Austria).
Every piece of furniture that leaves our workshop from the beginning to the end is subjected ...
Category
Austrian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Mogens Koch, Pair of Bookcases in Elmwood, Denmark, 1940s
Located in DE
A pair of elm bookcases designed by Mogens Koch and manufactured by Rud. Rasmussen cabinetmakers in 1933, in Copenhagen.
Both signed with paper label to the reverse.
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Ash
Paolo Buffa 1940s Walnut Sideboard/Library Grissinato Processing
By Paolo Buffa
Located in Milano, IT
In excellent condition, in walnut with wood processing "grissinata" beautifully restored sideboard / library brass keys.
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Large French Neoclassical Pine Bookcase
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large French neoclassical Louis XVI style pine bookcase - Shelving unit.
Category
Neoclassical Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Pine
Paldao Bookcase by Gilbert Rohde for Herman Miller
Located in Boston, MA
Gilbert Rohde created this handsome bookcase, number 4113, for Herman Miller in the 1940s. Made of paldao wood, it has two fixed shelves set into a bevel-edged case that rests on an ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Paldao
Fine French Art Deco Cabinet or Bookcase
Located in Long Island City, NY
With a central wood and bone marquetry door, two inside drawers and brass hardware.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Wood
Serge Roche Style Hollywood Regency Carved Palm Frond Etagere Bookcase, 1940s
By Serge Roche
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Stunning midcentury hand-carved palm frond motif étagère bookcase in the style of Serge Roche. Heavy solid wood frame features original cream painted matte finish and five removable ...
Category
Hollywood Regency Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Wood
French Mahogany "Bibliotecque" by Dominique
Located in Cathedral City, CA
French mahogany bookcase with bronze detail key holder, four doors and two wood shelves.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Italian Large Mahogany and Glass Wall Unit, Bookcase by Dassi, 1940
Located in Rome, IT
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 doors
executed in elegant "grissi...
Category
Italian Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Large Dassi Mahogany Wall Unit Bookcase, Part of Unique Living Room, 1940
Located in Rome, IT
Important wall unit bookcase and bar, cabinet, 1940.
Executed by Dassi and attributed to Ico Parisi
Unique living room
Stunning details "grissinato mahogany wood"
Part of unique ...
Category
Italian Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Art Deco Ebony De Macassar and Parchment Bookcase, Jean Pascaud
By Jean Pascaud
Located in Hollywood, FL
The ebony de Macassar framework with open shelves and mirror back over two doors in parchment and embossed over short cabriole legs.
Provenance: Christies, New York.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Mirror, Parchment Paper
Exceptional Mid-Century Breakfront Faux Leather Finish
Located in Miami, FL
REDUCED FROM $6,795...... This breakfront cabinet was made by Stewartstown Furniture company in the 1940s. A rare find as a full breakfront, this remarkable design often attributed t...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Custom-Made Maison Jansen Rosewood Breakfront
Located in Stamford, CT
Finest rosewood and ormolu-mounted bookcase/breakfront with a beautifully carved ribbon-form medallion atop four glass doors with bronze trims, over four enclosed cabinet doors with ...
Category
Argentine Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Grosfeld House 1940s Secretary by Lorin Jackson
Located in Hingham, MA
Lorin Jackson for Grosfeld House 1940s cabinet bookcase in mahogany featuring a pull-out secretary with writing surface. Distinctive Grosfeld "Glassic" lucite ring pulls with sunburs...
Category
American Hollywood Regency Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Mid-Century Modern Small Elegant Italian Bookshelf , Vittorio Dassi Style
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Small elegant Italian bookshelf Mid-Century Modern Vittorio Dassi style in walnut with contours richly carved.
Measure in cm: H 175, W 81, D 26.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Walnut, Walnut
Painted Etagere Server
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Server, having a painted finish with silver gilt accents, its cabinet base with three drawers, decorated with Greek key motifs, over four fielded, mirrored cupboard doors; surmounted...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Wood, Mirror
Bruno Mathsson Book Crib Model T-704 by Karl Mathsson in Värnamo, Sweden
Located in Malmo, SE
Rare and early book crib T-704 designed by Bruno Mathsson. Produced by Karl Mathsson in Värnamo, Sweden.
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Birch
Nordiska Kompaniet Pair of Birch Bookcases, Sweden, 1943
Located in Maastricht, NL
A pair of bookcases by Nordiska Kompaniet, made of birch and standing on four legs.
These pieces are labeled by Nordiska with the serial number 44756, which indicates they were made...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Birch
Georgian Style Bubble Glass Satinwood Inlay Mahogany Bookcase Breakfront Cabinet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exceptional 1940s English Georgian style custom bubble glass two-piece mahogany breakfront. This bookcase features individual panes of bubble glass, drop front writing desk surface w...
Category
American Georgian Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Deco Bookcase
By Paul Frankl
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
Deco skyscraper bookcase in the manor of Paul Frankl. Maple stained mahogany. Bottom drawer has a stamp of #2 from factory.
Category
American Vintage 1940s Bookcases
Materials
Maple
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