Donald Deskey Art Deco Sideboard Console

Pair of Donald Deskey Art Deco Sideboard Consoles, 1930s, with large drawers in the Streamline Moderne taste, lacquered burlwood, designed by Deskey an...

Mid-Century Mastercraft wood lamp table, rectangular with marquetry top above a lower tier with drawer with hinged brass tab pulls above canted feet, ...

This exquisite French Art Deco sideboard, dating to the 1930s, is a superb example of early 20th-century decorative arts. The straight-grained and highly striated macassar veneer run...

Rare sideboard attributed to Eliel Saarinen (father of Eero Saarinen) designed before his immigration to the United States. In a style that we now refer to as "Art Deco," this style was considered the "National Romantic Style" in Finland essentially a twist on what became known worldwide as Art Deco with its strong vertical lines and medieval references. The workmanship of this cabinet and its materials is magnificent. Note the carefully matched panels of golden masurbjork (birch root), the intricate carvings of medieval knights (very similar to those guarding Saarinen's Helsinki Railway Station built in 1906) and the high contrast of golden and dark birch wood seen again in Saarinen's furniture designed in the United States in the late 1920s. While Saarinen's son Eero went on to become the more famous of the two, it was Eliel who could be considered the grandfather of Nordic Art Deco...