Unusual American Modern Bamboo, Leather, and Chrome Banded Desk, Ernest Masi

American Mid-Century Modern coffee table with square top and four exterior cylindrical legs comprised of bonded bamboo dowels. (ERNEST C. MASI) Minor wear to finish.

American Mid-Century walnut desk with a black leather top and three drawers with rounded wooden drawer pulls, resting on four stretcher-connected b...

Rare American Modern Cerused Oak Desk by Jay Spectre

American Post-War Design white painted wood table desk with drawers and supported on 2 chrome "X" form bases. (Desk in need of full restoration) Metal frame has very light scratchin...

Beautiful bamboo and wicker desk, Year 1960. This desk is made of wicker with bamboo edges. This desk can be placed either in the center of a room or positioned attached to the wa...

This desk features one pencil drawer in the middle, one large file drawer, four regular drawers, wooden vanity panel, chrome trim and legs. This stylish Mid-Century Modern desk would...

An exceptional example of Jacques Adnet signature leather wrapped steel design. Adnet developed this hand stitched leather technique at the end of w...

This Boiceau desk bears his stamp, and was entirely veneered in amboyna, an exotic burlwood named for Ambon, the Indonesian island where it was harvested. The naturally squiggling patterning of the veneer provides an overall surface decoration. The top alone has no fewer than 60 small book-matched squares of it – ten across and six deep – creating a kaleidoscopic effect in subtle monochrome. Applied decoration is minimal. It consists of two inlaid pairs of griffins in boxwood and purplewood facing off across braziers on both the front and the back of the desk, and blind-tooled Greek keys trimming white-leather-topped shelves that slide out to either side. These decorations introduce no color, and, in lying flush with the surface, leave the sleek form undisturbed. Boiceau even eliminated drawer pulls, necessitating a lock and key for each drawer. Born in Lausanne in 1881, Boiceau descended from French Huguenots who had settled in Switzerland. Prominent as bankers, lawyers, businessmen, and diplomats, the Boiceaus were a cosmopolitan family. Ernest studied painting in Munich, and then painting and architecture in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1900 he embarked on a ten-year European sojourn, painting landscapes and portraits along the way. In 1910 he resettled in Paris, became interested in textiles, and established an embroidery workshop that catered to the stage and haute couture. Among his clients were the Folies Bergères, the Comédie-Française, and the Paris Opéra, and the fashion houses of Worth and Molyneux. He also made embroidered table linens, wall hangings, and upholstery fabrics. In a 1913, at an embroidery exhibition in Paris at the Musée Galliera, he presented a boudoir in collaboration with curtains, upholstery fabrics, and a tapestry, embroidered in modern abstract designs. In 1925 he launched a couture line, and branched out to design finely crafted objects and furniture made in rare woods, like ebony and Tasmanian oak...