Primitive Tree Trunk Cabinet / Bar

Here we have a highboard with an incorporated bar cabinet, designed by Frans Defour. Its doors are beautifully ornamented with oak veneer tiles, giving the highboard a mosaic effec...

A pair of sculptural Mid-century candle holder in cast iron. The candle holder holds one thick candle and is in a very good original condition. Made in the late 1960’s.

A wall unit in pine with a black painted steel structure. Designed for a house in Antwerp by Belgian interior architect Jul de Roover in the 1950s. ​​​​​​​The unit consists of 1 do...

Rare pair of geometric wall lamps, completely handcrafted with brass pieces soldered together. These wall sconces are designed in the 1950ties by the Danish architect Rolf Graae...

France Haute-Savoie region tree trunk cabinet, made in the early 1900’s of an old tree. This is a great example of the French provincial folk art craftsmen. Lovely patina.

The Tree Cabinet by Bellavista is an elegant and functional piece of furniture that embodies both style and quality. The structure features a matte lacquered finish in a perla color,...

Shagreen bar cabinet, with an antique mirror frame on the front as well as both sides. 2 inch thick Lucite base. Three glass shelves inside.

Rare and unique brutalist bar cabinet decorated with hand carved bear. Koncz Vilmos (1932 – 2006). He started painting at the age of 30, using the following techniques: charcoal, pastel, oil. He has had solo exhibitions eight times in Budapest, and his works have been featured in seventeen group exhibitions worldwide. He was an experimental creator. Its more than 420 works include glass mosaics, terracotta, copper embossing and furniture carving. After his death, most of his oeuvre was “lost”. A decade and a half passed from painting to the first carvings. Middle Eastern and African culture had a major impact on his further artistic work. Traveled and created in Baghdad, Kuwait, Beirut and Tanzania. He became acquainted with the ancient folk art of the Makonde tribe, with carvings of ebony and ivory, which changed his creative career. When he made an authentic bracelet out of ivory, decorated with African motifs, the members of the tribe welcomed him among themselves. He became the tribe’s "Mister Vili." An exhibition of his painted paintings was held at the Kilimanjaro Hotel. He learned the machining of copper from the Arabs and the making of glass mosaics, and the tricks of jewelry making from the Hindus. He had forty large sculptures erected in various settlements of Hungary, mostly multi-field, made with a circular carving technique. Everything from ornaments on the table to the three-meter-high monument was found in his oeuvre. The Tiszakürt Arboretum also houses two wooden sculptures made of circular carvings: Tasso and the Tanzanian family tree. Donated works of his hometown: the 1956 headboard, the “Jászok” and “Kunok” (Old Hungarian Tribes), the “Flute”, the “Kolompolás” (Ringing the Bell) and the “Winged Altar”. In the 1980s, he also made carvings for the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden. His Ars Poetic was: “I do what I love, which drives from within, because I want to leave marks behind that I once existed and perhaps not uselessly” (2002). The term "Brutalist" originated from Le Corbusier’s Cité...