Hand Crafted Art Deco Style Games Table and Four Chairs Ronald C. Puckett & Co.

20th c., French Provincial Louis XV style triangular corner games table with a hinged top opening to a green baize gaming surface. The table folds out to a square on four curved corn...

19th c., a rare Eastern European/Circassian games table with particularly fine color and wood graining. The shaped hinge top is over a single frieze drawer, raised on cabriole legs, ...

A vintage art deco style lidded bowl in the style of Carl Sorensen stamped "Made in Italy" on base. The lid finial is in the form of a bronze swan in a defensive stance. The upper an...

American intra-war artist and illustrator Porter Woodruff (1894-1959). Arabian Horse scene, oil and gold leaf on board with chalky gouache. Signed Woodruff on lower right of painting. Signature somewhat obscured by frame. His Art Deco-influenced paintings are highly decorative and appealing, the compositions complex and well-thought out. The gold leaf background is decorative and elegant. His are rare Modernist paintings by an artist who found himself at the very heart of design, fashion and celebrity life in the early part of the century. Label at back for Pitt & Scott Ltd London - well known for its expertise in handling antiques, works of art and fragile artefacts. Dimensions: 11.5"h x 15.5"w (sight) 12.5"h x 17.5"w (frame) Porter Woodruff, was an illustrator artist and contributor to Vogue Magazine and Home & Garden (including covers for both). He was one of five artists stationed in Paris in 1923 for Vogue. Woodruff spent considerable time in Tunisia, North Africa, residing with his romantic partner, Romanian socialite George Sebastian. Sebastian owned a lavish, coastal property in then-trendy Hammamet, near Tunis on the Mediterranean. Sebastian fell in love with the simple beauty of the quiet fishing port of Hammamet and was the first of the international set of the times to build his villa there. He started a trend that has never ceased. Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have claimed Dar Sebastian to be ”the most beautiful house I have ever seen”. American and European intelligentsia and upper-crust were attracted to the area between the wars. The artists Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paul Klee, Andre Gide, the Sitwells, and Cecil Beaton enjoyed visiting, partying, and undertaking what someone once described as indulging the opportunity to do 'some rather elaborate sinning'. Other visitors included Art Deco designer Jean-Michel Frank, Wallis Simpson, Somerset Maugham, and Greta Garbo, among others. The onset of war disrupted this scene and it never truly regained its former glory. Dar Sebastian was requisitioned by the 'Desert Fox', German General, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...

A charming handmade storage piece in the form of a house with a chimney. Executed in the American Folk Art style, this is a charming piece that is both decorative and practical. The ...

A charming handmade storage piece in the form of a house with two chimneys. Executed in the American Folk Art style, this is a charming piece that is both decorative and practical. T...

Features quality solid hand made construction - inlay details, custom finish, Art Deco-inspired design. Beautifully constructed of figured maple & exotic hardwoods the Demi style tab...

A Mahogany parquet top games table produced by Jules Leleu in the 1940’s in France, it has four sabre type legs with sabots at the foot, the top has e...

Liberty & Co. an Anglo-Moorish Arts & Crafts fold over card and games table in Walnut with green baize interior when open. Turned details to the upper and arched apron with turned an...

Elegant antique card or games table in walnut Opens out to reveal green beized lined playing surface This piece is circa 1930 Originally by Epstein and Co Epstein furniture was ...

Louis XVI style tulip wood, birch and king wood fold over games table, circa 1930's. The top with a central star inlay, aprons with tulip wood panels framed with birch string inlay s...

This brass and chrome set is the 1970s personified. A square piece of glass covers a chrome and brass base with four tan leather topped stainless steel round stools.