Gilded Brass and White Marble Round Table, 1950s

Beautiful 20th century French Maison Baguès gilded brass and black glass coffee table from the 1950s. Exceptional quality and rare shape of the base. Good condition.

Very nice 20th century Italian rounded table with a grey marble top and a metal and brass base. (removable top from the base) Four chairs made with a white velvet and also in metal ...

Beautiful and rare 20th century, French Jacques Adnet clock gueridon from the 1950s around the theme of Hunting Court, a horse and his saddle, a dog and a hunting Horn. The clock is...

Very nice 20th century, French gilded brass and glass floor lamp from the 1950s, with beautiful pendants. Electric dimmer. Four lampshades.

Large Chinese lamp in blue and white porcelain from the 1950s decorated with pagodas and characters. Lampshade decorated with fringed trimmings in ...

Pretty brass butterfly lamp from the 1950s. Half lampshade in yellow fabric and brass rim. Nice quality.

Coffee table Marble top Brass base Italy 1950s.    

Good vintage condition for this brass and marble coffee or side table produced in Italy during the 1950s. Normal trace of age and use but a crack on the upper part of the brass struc...

Beautiful small round coffee table with Nero Portoro marble top on tripod gilt metal legs, Italy, 1950s. This chic marble coffee table exudes the char...

Coffee table with a curule base in polished brass. The white marble top delicately veined with grey.

Low table with a round-shaped table top in white marble and four metal legs from the Parallel Bar series, designed by Florence Knoll and manufactured by Knoll International during the 1950s. Born to a baker, and orphaned at age twelve, Florence Schust grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. Schust demonstrated an early interest in architecture and was enrolled at the Kingswood School for Girls, adjacent to the Cranbrook Academy of Art. While at Kingswood, Florence befriended Eilel Saarinen, whom she would later study under at Cranbrook. Warmly embraced by the Saarinen family, Florence vacationed with them in Finland, enjoyed the company of their accomplished friends, and formed a very close relationship with Eliel’s son, Eero. The connections she made and the skills she developed while at Cranbrook were the foundations of Florence Schust’s incredible design education and pioneering career. With recommendations from Eliel Saarinen and Alvar Aalto, Florence went on to study under some of the greatest 20th century architects, including Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1941 Florence moved to New York where she met Hans Knoll who was establishing his furniture company. With Florence’s design skills and Hans’ business acumen and salesmanship, the pair, who married in 1946, grew the nascent company into an international arbiter of style and design. Florence also seeded contributions with her friends Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, and Mies van der Rohe. In creating the revolutionary Knoll Planning Unit, Florence Knoll defined the standard for the modern corporate interiors of post-war America. Drawing on her background in architecture, she introduced modern notions of efficiency, space planning, and comprehensive design to office planning. Florence ardently maintained that she did not merely decorate space. She created it. The Planning Unit rigorously researched and surveyed each client — assessing their needs, defining patterns of use and understanding company hierarchies — before presenting a comprehensive design, informed by the principles of modernism and beautifully executed in signature Knoll style. Florence and the Planning Unit were responsible for the interiors of some of America’s largest corporations, including IBM, GM and CBS. As part of her work with the Planning Unit, Florence frequently contributed furniture designs to the Knoll catalog...

Elegant coffee table with circular glass top and artistic structure with three legs in curved and corrugated copper rod. Italian production from the 50s.