Mercantile Cabinet

From the heart of a Parisian workshop, this double-sided chest of drawers is a rare industrial artifact with timeless charisma. Crafted in the early 20th century from richly patinate...

This cabinet was built around an authentic French champagne rack. The front doors are the two parts from a rack. The steel cabinet which they are mounte...

This distinctive cabinet integrates an authentic 1940s French champagne rack, repurposing its front panels into striking doors. Mounted onto a steel frame with a gunmetal patina, the...

This beautiful and rare piece came from a Parisian lawyer office to hold the confidential files. French oak cabinet with 24 removable cardboard drawers/boxes with brass latches (box ...

A large and unique antique French Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted bombe shaped Malachite vitrine cabinet of superb quality embellished with fine curved single glass door...

Antique 1850s French ionized wood pier cabinet with gilt bronze & mother of pearl inlay decoration. Missing table top.

A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style ormolu mounted plum pudding mahogany veneer, mahogany and Vernis Martin decorated vitrine à Deux Corps, probably by François Linke (1855-1946). The lower structure fitted with finely chased gilt-bronze mounts with female masks, musical instruments, floral drapes, bows and acanthus, centred with a frieze drawer and a cupboard door with three painted panels. The centre front painted panel with a Romantic courting park setting scene amongst sheep and a sculpture fountain of Putti; the side panels both with parks scenes of a resting lion sculpture and fountain flanked by grassing sheep. The lower cabinet interior with three drawers, the upper vitrine case with two glass shelves, a bowed beveled front door and sides, crowned with a fine gilt-bronze wreath mount with ribbons, all raised on four cabriolet legs with cast lion paw mounts. Unsigned, Paris, circa 1890-1900. The style of this cabinet is closely related to those produced in the Paris furniture making trade in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in the 1880s and as such, without a signature or identifying mark, is unattributable. However, there are similarities with the firm Raoux et Brunet, some of whose mounts were designed by Léon Messagé and later used by François Linke. Indeed many of the mounts on this cabinet, whilst not exclusive to him, are very similar to the work produced in his early years in Paris in the 1880s. At this time Linke was making furniture to order...

Two-part merchant haberdashery counter made of birch and oak. Glass upper part with interior compartment of ten display drawers and mounting for lighting. Bottom part with ten larger...