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Three 19th Century Stone Barricade Balustrades and Chain Markers
Located in Sheffield, MA
The three French 19th century stone marker or barricade balustrades are carved and have iron hooks for linking the chain. Great to use to indicate house n...
Category
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Berkshires
Materials
Stone, Iron
$1,680 Sale Price / set
40% Off
Black Crocodile Handbag
By Artbag
Located in Alford, MA
Small 1960s crocodile handbag from Artbag on Madison Avenue, NY, features an envelope style top with snap closure and double handles that attach belo...
Category
1960s American Berkshires
Set of 8 Pietro Costantini Black Lacquered Dining Chairs -- 22 Chairs Available
Located in Sheffield, MA
The post modern dining chairs are designed by Pietro Costantini in San Vito al Torre Italy. The iconic chairs feature sculptural style, piano black lacquered frames with conforming b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Berkshires
Materials
Leather, Wood
Vintage Upholstered Lounge Chairs, 2 Available
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pair of Upholstered Arm Chairs, sold individually. Super comfortable and attractive. Solid construction. Although the fabric is amazing it will need to be recovered as they do show...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Berkshires
Materials
Upholstery
Chinoiserie Ebonized Frame Mirror
Located in Sheffield, MA
Simply elegant 1960s-1970s chinoiserie style mirror that can serve well as full length dressing mirror, hall mirror, wall mirror, console or pier mirror, floor mirror.
Category
1960s Chinoiserie Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Wood
Couture GianniVersaceFinalYear RunwayMilan Embroidered Silk Renaissance Corset
By Gianni Versace Couture, Gianni Versace
Located in Chicago, IL
The late Italian Gianni Versace near the end of his life--cut short by his murder in July 1997--designed this couture heavily-embroidered semi-transparent silk chiffon sleeveless hou...
Category
1990s Italian Berkshires
Antique French Iron Campaign Style Daybed
Located in Sheffield, MA
Add glamour and style with this Napoleon III cast iron lounging day bed to any room. Create your own 24" x 74" seating area with a mattress, seat cushion and decorative pillows to ma...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Berkshires
Materials
Iron
Art Deco Sterling Filigree Candy Basket
Located in Sheffield, MA
The Art Deco bon candy basket has a filigree band and is stamped "Sterling".
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Berkshires
Materials
Sterling Silver
Morris Moskowitz Rose Pink 1960s Bag
By Morris Moskowitz
Located in Alford, MA
MM handbag c.1960s in dark pink, the leather featuring horizontal, curved stitching resulting in a quilted effect. The faux tortoise handles echo the shape of the bag and snap together to close. A coordinating faille interior has an attached money purse...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Berkshires
Victor Costa Strapless Dress
By Victor Costa
Located in Alford, MA
One of Victor Costa's best designs, this strapless cocktail/evening dress is fashioned of white satin and black velvet alternating horizontal stripes with fitted bodice leading to an...
Category
Late 20th Century American Berkshires
6 Piece Art Deco Bentwood Bamboo Wicker Seating Ensemble
Located in Sheffield, MA
Restored 3 strand Paul Frankl style 6 piece rattan living room seating set consisting of 3 separated seat sofa, arm club chair with matching ottoman, side table, 2 tier corner table...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Berkshires
Materials
Rattan
Victorian Style Five-Piece Garden Dining Table and 4 Chairs
Located in Sheffield, MA
This 40" round cast aluminum dining table and 4 matching chairs features a pierced concentric floral-motif top and cabriole legs with dolphin decoration. The set has recently been re...
Category
20th Century American Late Victorian Berkshires
Materials
Aluminum
New England Landscape with Barn
By Eric Sloane
Located in Sheffield, MA
Eric Sloane
American, 1905-1985
New England Landscape with Barn
Oil on panel
22 by 30 in, w/ frame 30 ½ by 39 in
Signed lower right
Eric Sloane was born, Everard Jean Hinrichs, on ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Berkshires
Materials
Oil
Custom Baroque-Style Wrought Iron Console Table or Server Base
Located in Sheffield, MA
The long baroque style metal console or sofa table has a brushed gold gilt finish and is handcrafted with elegant scroll-work and detailing. The feet have flat iron pads. The console is newly made from antique fencing...
Category
19th Century North American Baroque Antique Berkshires
Materials
Iron
Trifari 1970s Necklace and Chandelier Earrings
Located in Alford, MA
c.1960s-'70s Trifari necklace and earrings set, the necklace comprised of three gold chains, the shortest of which features a large pendant with free-...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Berkshires
Hermes Roseraie Scarf
By Christiane Vauzelles, Hermès
Located in Alford, MA
Hermes Roseraie silk scarf designed 1990 by Christiane Vauzelles. Green border and trellis with vivid roses in shades of red and pink spilling from cen...
Category
Late 20th Century French Berkshires
Schreiner 1950s ProngSet UniqueGreen ABCrystals PaveCrystalLeaves Silver Brooch
By Schreiner of New York
Located in Chicago, IL
This colorful prong-set crystal spray brooch by Schreiner New York was made to compliment luxury clothing by a U.S.-based fashion designer, such as Pauline Trigere, in the late 1950s. This piece is special because it shows the unique decorative technique that Schreiner used for a period of several years in reaction to the limited availability of the first aurora-borealis (AB) stones by Swarovski in 1956, which had been designed for Christian Dior.
In response to the availability of only the initial AB color that mostly reflected bright blue and the high demand from other designers, Schreiner's creative family soon applied transparent glass paint to create additional colors, such as the light-green painted AB crystals on this brooch. According to Henry Schreiner's late daughter who took over the business with her jewelry-designer husband, this enabled them to become the first to produce costume jewelry with AB stones in different colors, while Swarovski took several years to introduce similar colors.
All original painted AB crystals are intact in this brooch, which is significant since a lost stone...
Category
1950s American Modern Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Crystal, Silver, Brass
Henry Link Faux Bamboo Club Chairs Set Of Four
By Henry Link
Located in Hudson, NY
Vintage set of four, Chinese Chippendale Rattan Chairs Wicker by Henry Link.
They are in fabulous vintage condition. Upholstery is in...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Wood
Antique Dutch Painted Bombe Linen Press Cabinet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Stately and impressive white washed 18th century Dutch linen press cupboard perfect as dining room china cupboard, entertainment center...
Category
18th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Berkshires
Materials
Oak
Couture LingerieLike Beaded Silk Cutwork Balenciaga Style 2000s Black Vest Apron
Located in Chicago, IL
This couture lingerie-like spaghetti-strapped black silk-satin apron vest--with extraordinary graphic cutwork featuring a heavily hand-beaded breast-plate and appliques--was custom made by a young designer for a New York City female...
Category
Early 2000s French Berkshires
Fisher Fur Coat by Alixandre
By Alixandre
Located in Alford, MA
Luxurious fisher coat by Alixandre, known for high quality furs. Simple styling featuring a notched collar and round, padded shoulders, the vertical skins ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Berkshires
Black Ribbed Evening Bag
Located in Alford, MA
An unusual evening bag of vertically ribbed matte black satin with the natural ruffled edge on one side. Single handle, gold clasp. Black satin interior wi...
Category
1970s Unknown Berkshires
Couture 1937-40 ElsaSchiaparelli MarcelVertes Harlequin Duck GlazedCeramicBrooch
By Elsa Schiaparelli
Located in Chicago, IL
Between the first ad campaign that legendary fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) commissioned from internationally-admired Paris-based Hungarian-born multimedia artist Marcel Vertes (1895-1961) for her blockbuster perfume "Shocking" in 1937 and in 1940 when they left France after launching her perfume "Sleeping" shortly before the Nazi occupation during WWII, the illustrator-cum-ceramist distinctly handmade, while traditional materials for couture costume-jewelry were scarce in Paris, this whimsical red glazed ceramic brooch depicting a duck holding a "wet" umbrella dripped with dashes of turquoise or black glaze.
Significantly, the trombone clasp of the brooch pin, the long-pronged gilt frame, and the text stamped on its back plate "Made In France" match a similarly sized glazed-ceramic brooch of a decoratively-chained bear that was published in the book Bijoux (page 146). The author Deanna Farenti Cera dated that likewise unbranded unsigned brooch to 1938 when it was commissioned for one of Schiaparelli's fashion shows themed "Circus". The invitation to that show, which was illustrated with circus characters and performing animals by Vertes' Parisian peer Christian Berard, included a domesticated white duck--notably not holding nor wearing a fashion accessory.
Unusually, Schiaparelli had commissioned couture umbrellas from other artisans in the 1930s--a couple of which were acquired by TheMet museum. Another relevant Met acquisition of the designer's couture evening gown, which it dates to Summer 1940, features three large glazed-ceramic fasteners in a contrasting color matching our brooch.
The like findings, materials, construction, text, object, and palette aside, accessory-adorned ducks were also among the figurative animals commissioned by Schiaparelli for that last collection before the Germans dominated Paris by June 1940, which is evidenced by the photo of the dated gilt hatpin depicting a bejeweled head with a bill that appears in the book by Patrick Mauries about another Schiaparelli-associated French parurier Lina Baretti (pages 124-125). See our other listing for one of Baretti's uniquely feathered designs, which likewise has a pronged gilt frame with trombone clasp like ours, but whose partridge subject best suits an earlier Schiaparelli collection for Fall 1938 titled "Pagan".
For us, distinguishing our brooch from other one-of-a-kind ceramic pieces created for Schiaparelli couture...
Category
1930s French Artisan Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Gold, Yellow Gold, Gilt Metal
Antique French Louis XIII Style Draw Leaf Dining Table with Barley Twist Legs
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antique French Louis XIII style oak draw leaf extending dining table with barley twist legs. This table has been lovingly restored...
Category
1920s French Louis XIII Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Oak
Giltwood 1950s Set of 3 Florentine Nesting or Stacking Tables
Located in Sheffield, MA
Set of three Florentine-style stacking tables featuring cabriole legs with intricate hand painted details on the tabletops and scalloped edges. The tables have been lovingly restored...
Category
1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Wood
Antique ArtDeco Meets BelleEpoque WWI WhiteGold Openwork Link Choker Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
Victorian Belle-Epoque and Edwardian styles transitioned to Art-Deco period jewelry with semi-precious materials and machine-age shapes around WWI when this unique 20-link choker nec...
Category
Early 20th Century American Belle Époque Berkshires
Materials
White Gold
Vintage Spiral 3-Step Metal and Wood Library Steps or Stand
Located in Sheffield, MA
Midcentury Italian three steps wooden spiral steps with metal hand railing and top supporting metal guard rail with rising post and finial. Use this vint...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Berkshires
Materials
Iron
Anglo-Indian Teak Plantation Chair
Located in Sheffield, MA
Indoor or outdoor British Colonial teak plantation or planters chair with cane seat and back. Wonderful weathered wood patina.
Category
Late 19th Century Indian British Colonial Antique Berkshires
Materials
Teak
$1,925 Sale Price
30% Off
Stella McCartney Fall2002 RunwayFinale Transparent SilkChiffon PlungingV Blouse
By Stella McCartney
Located in Chicago, IL
For her Fall/Winter 2002 runway finale with the model embodying a "jeans bride", Stella McCartney debuted this unique ethereal lingerie-like black transparent silk georgette blouse ...
Category
Early 2000s British Berkshires
Antique English Georgian Silver Teapot
Located in Sheffield, MA
Serve the next cup of tea in this elegant classic fine and impressive antique Edwardian English sterling silver teapot in the Queen Anne style.
With wood handle and finial, the lower portion of this fine teapot is embossed fluted decoration accented with subtly elevated rounded projections.
Search terms: Georgian teapot, Edwardian teapot...
Category
Early 20th Century English Queen Anne Berkshires
Materials
Silver
$1,140 Sale Price
40% Off
Narrow 14" Depth Cupboard Made With Antique French Doors
Located in Sheffield, MA
Very shallow 14" deep white washed two door armoire that will fit into a small room or space for extra storage or serve as entertainment cabinet for large screen TV, video and audio ...
Category
19th Century Country Antique Berkshires
Materials
Wood
1970s Bruno Magli Platform Sandals
By Bruno Magli
Located in Alford, MA
Iconic 1970s platform sandals by Bruno Magli in bright green leather featuring crossed straps in front, a buckled strap in back, and a 3 1/2" chunky heel.
Category
1970s Italian Berkshires
ArtNouveau PinkQueenConch Chatoyance 14mm Round Antique Sterling Clip Earrings
Located in Chicago, IL
These natural pink Queen conch pearl 14MM near-round stud earrings with antique screw-back clips stamped "sterling" each weigh 3 grams, for a more than 10 carat weight total as much ...
Category
Early 20th Century North American Art Nouveau Berkshires
Materials
Pearl, Sterling Silver
Line Vautrin Set Enamel Carved Resin Edelweiss Brass Clip Earrings & Brooch
By Line Vautrin
Located in Chicago, IL
Line Vautrin created "flame-radiating" resin mirrors in mid-century that are very similar to this sculptural resin edelweiss-flower set of highly-textural, hand-carved and enameled c...
Category
Early 20th Century French Artist Berkshires
Materials
Brass, Enamel
MiriamHaskell 1926-39 Enamel GiltFiligree Scallop BrassClip ArtDeco AquaEarrings
By Miriam Haskell
Located in Chicago, IL
During the Art-Deco period, Miriam Haskell and her first designer since 1926 Frank Hess created these blue-tone enameled scallop-edged Russian-gilt brass earrings with intricate wire...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Berkshires
Materials
Turquoise, Yellow Gold, Gilt Metal, Enamel, Brass, Gold
$908 Sale Price / set
60% Off
2 Piece Split Reed / Stick Wicker Settee and Chair Set
Located in Sheffield, MA
Stylish 1940's Stick Wicker / split reed sofa and armchair, deep-seated, angular with wide flat arms giving the sofa and chair that graceful elegant look. The rattan settee and arm c...
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Berkshires
Materials
Rattan
Hand-Carved Silver Giltwood Decorative Sculpture
Located in Sheffield, MA
Silver and gold gilt decorative sculpture pediment with scroll work, sunflowers and leaves. Could be used over a mirror, bed as corona or door having the right width or above headboa...
Category
20th Century Italian Baroque Berkshires
Materials
Vermeil, Silver
$2,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique/Vintage Copper French Hanging Lantern
Located in Sheffield, MA
This Louis XV, Rococo style 3 light hanging lantern is typical of the period adorned with acanthus leaves and spiral decorations makes this lantern especially charming for any decor....
Category
Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Berkshires
Materials
Copper
Rustic Chinese Terracotta Jar Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
White painted, grey green terracotta lamp base made from rustic vintage Chinese clay jars used for wine storage. The lamp is hand made and was not...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Rustic Berkshires
Materials
Terracotta
1930s Black Velvet Coat
Located in Alford, MA
Black velvet opera coat featuring a ruched collar and wrists. Loose fit with curved front hem and balloon sleeves. Single rhinestone button closure. White satin lining.
Category
1930s American Berkshires
Victor Costa Velvet / Tulle Strapless Dress
By Victor Costa
Located in Alford, MA
Victor Costa at his dramatic best. Feel like a princess in this black strapless evening dress with its velvet bodice and tulle skirt. The sweetheart strapless bodice is fitted throug...
Category
1980s American Berkshires
$675 Sale Price
22% Off
Couture Chanel Late1920s MadeInFrance WiredPearl&LampworkGlass Clip Earrings
By Chanel
Located in Chicago, IL
Marked "Made In France" on their antique brass back-plates like the initial unbranded couture costume-jewelry commissioned by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel since 1924, these beaded early-handcrafted-clip earrings are arranged with wire in a floral motif featuring button-like mother-of-pearls accented by smaller balls of lampwork glass with an ecru organic coating that mimics pearl nacre. The pair were designed to accessorize a one-of-a-kind clothing ensemble (likely including cultured-pearl buttons and a brooch) for a client of the pearl-associated French couturier whose earliest jewelry--unlike her fashion-designer peers--sometimes mixed real and faux gems.
The glass artistry, clustered arrangement and earring findings are characteristic of one of her Parisian paruriers, Louis Rousselet. He was a lampwork master with a workshop since 1920 specializing in faux-pearl glass beads and wire-work assembly, along with other decorative elements. Since the three-piece flat-brass lever clips without hinge-holes on both sides predate Rousselet's wire-horseshoe clips, they can be dated like the patinated brass hardware to the mid1920s.
The beads of various sizes and shades of white that are wired to these earrings include four round graduating iridescent mother-of-pearl disks, along with lampwork glass replicating four baroque pearls, three round pearls and two seed pearls. There are natural impurities present on the green-and-pink-reflecting cultured pearls, while we can clean dust from the coated-glass crevices upon request.
Of note, Chanel did not include a brand signature on any of her couture costume jewelry prior to the mid-1950s. As many of her clients who came to Paris for their couture-clothing fittings were foreign, the coordinated unique jewelry that was expected to leave the country was merely stamped "Made In France" or "France". We acquired these earrings in The States along with similar pair with additional but smaller "petals, berries and leaves" from the same Rousselet commission.
Further, Art Deco couture...
Category
1920s French Artisan Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Pearl, Cultured Pearl, Brass
1950sRobertGoosensStyle CastOakLeaf Talisman BaroqueFauxPearls GoldChain Sautoir
Located in Chicago, IL
While contracted as an independent craftsman to create one-of-a-kind costume jewelry for French Masion Degorce from 1953 until it closed in 1957, Parisian goldsmith Robert Goosens (1927-2016) was initially commissioned by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel to craft one-of-a-kind Byzantine-style long decorative-chain necklaces with sculptural gilt-metal or faux-pearl charms, while she intended to layer many of them to accessorize her couture clothing for clients and herself.
Relevant to the unclear designer of our vintage nine-pendant ribbed-chain sautoir with an unsigned gold-gilt silver barrel clasp and five unique kinds of intricately textured vermeil and baroque faux-pearl charms, a similar lost-wax-cast center pendant with three-lobed-foliate prongs also in the shape of oak leaves can be seen in the book (p.28), Bijoux de Haute Couture: Collection Robert Goossens, by Gilles Plazy and Chantal Bizot published in Paris in 2000. The same year, that Chanel-signed pendant necklace was auctioned by Christie's in a lot including an unsigned long chain sautoir attributed to Chanel. Further, another 1stDibs dealer currently has a $12,500 listing for an unsigned but book-published early-1950s faux-pearl sautoir for Chanel that also features intricate pinecone talismans like ours, but decorated with poured glass and crystals crafted by Maison Gripoix.
When Chanel relaunched her post-war business ventures, Goosens soon became her favorite parurier before founding his eponymous Maison Goosens, whose venerable workshop later designed metal work for its own jewelry-and-furnishings brand Goosens Paris.
Notably, Chanel did not add a brand signature to costume jewelry until the late 1950s, while some pieces prior to this by multiple paruriers are documented to lack any identification that Chanel was earlier known to stamp such as "France", "Made In France" and/or "Depose". Recently, a similar unsigned/unmarked longer chain sautoir with fewer filigree-and-pearl pendants that was believed to be by Robert Goosens for Chanel...
Category
1950s French Byzantine Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Pearl, Yellow Gold, Gilt Metal, Silver, Vermeil
Antique Blue and White Chinese Teapot
Located in Sheffield, MA
The antique fine bone porcelain blue and white Chinese teapot has a long spout with hand painted scenic design. Enjoy a cup of tea served in this an...
Category
19th Century Chinese Export Antique Berkshires
Materials
Porcelain
MiriamHaskell 1945 CrystalRoseMontee GiltFiligree Glass Enameled ClimberEarrings
By Frank Hess for Miriam Haskell
Located in Chicago, IL
Two years before the brand signature first appeared in 1947, Miriam Haskell's first designer Frank Hess since 1926 designed these asymmetrical Baroque-style climber earrings that fea...
Category
1940s American Art Nouveau Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Crystal, Pearl, Gold, Enamel, Gilt Metal
$1,245 Sale Price / set
50% Off
Jacobean Style Refectory Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
Elizabethan Jacobean style refectory table with carved melon shaped bulbous legs connected with stretchers. Use for dining table, library table, conference table, entry hallway, foyer or center hall table. 70" long, will seat 6-8 people depending on the size of the chairs used. Perfect for an English Tudor, French Country, craftsman, of a streamline minimalist mid-century modern home. This table will bring style and character to a modern or antique decor. Make a statement as a writing table, desk, work table, a dining table, harvest table, or farm table. Top is not original to the base.
Search terms: Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque Revival 8' or 8 foot table...
Category
Early 20th Century Jacobean Berkshires
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Modern Butterfly Wingback Chair
Located in Sheffield, MA
In the style of Paolo Buffa, this 1950;s butterfly wing back chair has been restored and newly upholstered in a neutral linen fabric. Beautifully carved wood swag motif accents the front of the chair leading down to gracefully outward curved tapered...
Category
1950s European Hollywood Regency Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Linen, Mahogany
MCM Upholstered Barrel Armchair, 4 Available
Located in Sheffield, MA
These Mid-Century Modern upholstered barrel office chairs or dining chairs are sold singly.
Very comfortable and lots of fun. These chairs can se...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Berkshires
Materials
Upholstery
$1,600 / item
Antique Cast Iron Gothic Garden Chair
Located in Sheffield, MA
Impressive English cast iron painted garden throne chair with high back and wonderful decorative details that will add interest to any garden. Part of the decoration is missing but s...
Category
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Berkshires
Materials
Iron
Almost April
Located in Dallas, TX
oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Berkshires
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gucci TomFord 2001AwardYear Leather TuxedoPeakLapel SingleClasp EcruDinnerJacket
By Gucci, Tom Ford for Gucci
Located in Chicago, IL
Tom Ford for his Gucci Spring/Summer 2001 collection toyed with the retro mid-century concept of nude sex-appeal embodied by Marilyn Monroe, who inspired that season's designs and ad campaign. With the themes of bare skin and black-seamed sheer stockings, Ford's opening looks on his fashion-show runway featured ecru corset dresses with black transparent or leather overlays and stiletto heels (see our other listing for runway "Look 2"). Our versatile ecru leather tuxedo-influenced sharp-shoulder dinner jacket is from the same award-winning collection.
Significantly, 2001 was the year that Tom Ford (b. 1961) won the Council of Fashion Designers of America womenswear award for Designer of the Year, while The Met acquired Ford's signature corset dress for its Costume Institute collection.
Purchased at the Gucci boutique on Manhattan's Upper East Side, this "Made In Italy"-labeled jacket is tagged size 40, while suiting a US-size 4 to 6 with the padded shoulder-to-shoulder seam measurement of 15.4 inches and 23.6 inches arm length.
The jacket is streamlined by marked and angled peak lapels, sleeve vents with concealed buttons, back symmetrical vent, and single-point closure near the interior seam via a tiny Gucci branded silver-tone metal clasp. Notably, these are among the most technically challenging elements to tailor.
Fully lined in ecru silk-blend fabric, the jacket's left interior chest pocket sports button-and-fabric-loop closure and a fully sewn larger black Gucci brand label.
We added photos of the jacket worn over our black-tulle-covered ecru strapless balconette corset dress that was the Gucci Spring/Summer 2001 fashion...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Berkshires
1980s VictorCosta GatheredRuched RedSatin BlackVelvet LongSlit Formal Maxi Gown
By Victor Costa
Located in Chicago, IL
For a formal special event, this 1980s maxi dress sleeveless gown by American designer Victor Costa features glamorous glossy red satin that is gathered, ruched and topstitched in bo...
Category
1980s American Berkshires
Stiffel "Ostrich Egg" Brass & Ceramic Table Lamps ~ a Pair
By Stiffel
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Stiffel "Ostrich Egg" Brass & Ceramic Table Lamps.
USA, circa 1960.
Ostrich egg-shaped ceramic forms mounted on brass bases with matching hardware.
Priced as a pair—...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Brass
Russell Woodard Style Metal Garden or Porch Sofa with Matching Lounge Chair
By Russell Woodard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Woodard inspired sofa and matching lounge chairs, handmade wrought-iron outdoor patio, garden or porch furniture featuring scrolling map...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Berkshires
Materials
Wrought Iron
$3,040 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Painted Swedish Gustavian Style Full Size Headboard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Wonderfully styled Swedish Gustavian style painted full size headboard painted a pale grey with some distressing to add style and character.
Bed is suitable for Louis XVI or Louis ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Gustavian Berkshires
Materials
Wood
StellaMcCartney 2003 Runway Silk Satin Print Zip Jacket OffShoulder Bubble Dress
By Stella McCartney
Located in Chicago, IL
Arguable the most significant design in the Stella McCartney Spring/Summer 2003 collection--since our versatile garment debuted in different colors on the runway and was worn by the British designer to take her fashion-show bow--this pink-printed dark-grey silk-blend zip-front bubble-shaped mini dress with white-satin stripes and pink piping was a favorite of the show's Vogue critic and her father Beatles co-founder Paul McCarthy.
Vogue wrote: "Her hippest new idea came in the form of puffy satin bombers--she transformed one, a fusion of sport and chinoiserie print, into an off-the-shoulder bubble dress. McCartney is so into the glam-bomber idea, in fact, that she bounded onto the runway wearing a black version herself."
The garment's voluminous batwing sleeves with stretch-cotton ribbed neckline and hem, plus custom golden-charm two-way zipper, enable it to have two different necklines and lengths to convert to a shorter puffier bomber jacket.
Notably, the versatile piece that is subtly printed with mock-Beatles lyrics seems to have been the first tribute fashion-design that McCartney created to reference her father. Prior, she had credited her stylish mother Linda for instilling her with a love of fashion and inspiration for her initial namesake collections, which followed her first commercial collections with Phoebe Philo for Chloe.
For background, when McCartney was a young girl in 1978, the mock-rock band The Rutles parodied a Beatles song, which was recorded by EMI as "Ging, Gang, Goolie". Given its lyrics, the chinoiserie-style dragon motifs were substituted by McCartney with bird skeletons...
Category
Early 2000s British Berkshires
$1,782 Sale Price
55% Off
Louis XV Provincial Style Headboard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Handsome antique French Louis XV Provincial style queen Size walnut headboard with carved shell motif.
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Berkshires
Materials
Wood
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Hand Painted Aquatic Theme Fish Gravy Boat & Stand
By Flora Danica
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A magnificent example of Royal Copenhagen's finest line of porcelain, this Flora Danica gravy boat is hand painted on both sides with aquatic scenes and swimming fish. The handle res...
Category
1950s Danish Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Porcelain
YBA YoungBritishArtist Sculpture Jewelry Costume First US Exhibit NYC 2000-2001
By Contemporary
Located in Chicago, IL
Young British artist (YBA) Philippe Bradshaw (1965-2005) was represented by blue-chip international art galleries when he was the first to reimagine iconic-art images as tapestry-like metal-chain installations in multimedia environments. He is best known for transforming hand-assembled colorful anodized-aluminum links into shimmering semi-transparent layered curtains, whose hanging metallic strands uniquely dispersed the light of his camcorder-video projections and the club-house music from records that he deejayed.
In Bradshaw's first American exhibition "Disco Damage" in 2001 at New York City's legendary avant-garde art gallery, Deitch Projects, this jewelry-costume sculpture became part of the artist's live-in evolving studio installation. While later celebrating 15 years of art happenings that had occurred at that Soho exhibition space, its gallerist-cum-museum-director Jeffrey Deitch--who was physically scarred during this unforgettable chaotic several-month experience orchestrated by Bradshaw--recounted this show in his retrospective hardcover book "Live The Art".
When Bradshaw drowned in the Parisian-river Seine in August 2005 while living the high life of his skyrocketing success in Europe, he left a small body of large installations that is mostly distributed among the world's top private art collections. Notably, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has acquired one of his multimedia works. More recently, another assembly of his chain curtains made a rare public appearance at new modern-art museum, Heidi Horten Collection, during its inaugural exhibition in Vienna.
Since winning a major British visual-art prize in 2000 that marked Bradshaw's art-world ascent following fellow Goldsmiths-College YBAs who were close friends, this sculpture evolved from one of his most elaborate jewelry costumes that he created in London while seducing the American who became his girlfriend. Unlike other pieces of jewelry that he made as gifts to participating acquaintances while video taping...
Category
Early 2000s British Contemporary Berkshires
Materials
Mixed Metal
Girl with a Green Parrot
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Kronberg
American, 1872-1965
Girl with a Green Parrot
Oil on Canvas
19 ¾ by 23 ¾ in, w/ frame 24 ½ by 28 ½ in
Signed Louis Kronberg 1907 upper right
Louis Kronberg, a popular...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Oil
