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Patricia Urquiola for Moroso "Malmo" White Leather Sofa, Inner steel frame covered with injected polyurethane foam upholstered with origin...

Arnoldo Pomodoro cast bronze box abstract sculptural box with lid decorated organic abstract motifs, c1960-1970 The box is part of a series of four boxes made by the two brothers Gio...

Circa 2000 Marlene Stowe 18k Yellow Gold Frog Brooch, measuring 1 1/4 X 1 3/8 inches and weighing 32.3 Grams, Very nicely detailed and having Emerald Eyes. Excellent near unworn cond...

GIA Certified 4.02 Carat F-VVS1 Square Emerald Cut Diamond Ring in Platinum with Trapezoid Side Stones A magnificent GIA-certified 4.02 carat F color, VVS1 clarity square emerald cu...

Exquisite Antinori di Sanpietro platinum ring featuring a remarkable 26-carat cut-cornered cushion brilliant diamond, certified by GIA. This stunning diamond is graded H color and VS...

Circa 1910 This elegant Belle Epoque pendant is finely handcrafted in platinum. It features a brandy color citrine surrounded by an ornate wreath motif frame embellished with bright...

Charged with the humble task of storing dry goods, this small earthenware jar was hand-shaped in the early 20th century with balanced proportions and a beautifully irregular unglazed...

An exquisite blue-toned, Mid-Century watercolor, titled "Rome", ca. 1960 by Chicago artist George Yelich. The watercolor depicts the Foro Traiano; Trajan Column, and Churches of San...

Joe Colombo Vademecum table lamp Kartell Italy, 1969 Additional information: Materials:plastic, chrome-plated steel Dimensions: 7" W × 3" D × 10" H Condition: Very good. Tested and...

A wonderful late 19th century Chinese Peking rug with a round peony, chrysanthemum, and cherry blossom medallion set against an indigo backg...

exquisite GIA ring that showcases a stunning 4.07-carat certified untreated ruby, beautifully set in luxurious platinum. This remarkable piece features two elegant trillion diamonds ...

A breathtaking GRS-certified 10-carat Natural Padparadscha Sapphire sits at the heart of this exceptional ring, radiating a mesmerizing pinkish-orange hue that embodies the rare beau...

Antique Rococo Style Italian Majolica Glazed Terra Cotta Stove This 19th Century Italian Majolica glazed terra cotta stove exemplifies the artistry of handcrafted ceramics. Featurin...

Presenting an exquisite GIA Certified 5-Carat Asscher Cut Diamond set in a luxurious platinum band. This exceptional diamond boasts an I color grade, offering a pristine near-colorle...

Edward Wormley for Dunbar, Set of Three Louvered Dressers in Mahogany Set of three dressers in warm mahogany, each featuring six louvered drawers with...

As the personal photographer for this much loved Chicago icon, Richard Shay captured MJ on his 40th birthday celebration. This Artist Proof is matted and framed in a simple black frame measuring 16.25h x 20.25w x 1d inches. Richard Shay Michael Jordan on His 40th Birthday, 2003 archival pigment print 12h x 16w in 30.48h x 40.64w cm A.P. RSY006 Richard Shay grew up in Deerfield, Illinois where his father, the famed photojournalist, Art Shay and his wife Florence had moved to raise their family. Surrounded by the influence of his larger-than-life dad, Richard would go on to follow in his father's path. After traveling the world in his early 20's, Richard returned to Chicago and began photographing at The Oprah Winfrey Show. He became the family photographer for basketball player and Chicago treasure, Michael Jordan. He would go on to tour the US and Russia with The Smashing Pumpkins...

Indulge in unparalleled elegance with this exquisite platinum necklace, Featuring 52 round brilliant-cut diamonds, ranging from 7.14 to 1.07 carats, set in platinum. Certified by ...

This vintage baroque-style handcrafted gold-infused opaline Murano chandelier has five arms with leaf-trimmed bobeches. The milky opaline glass veers towards a light blue color with ...

A timeless creation by Cecile Blake, this exquisite ring showcases a vibrant 3.14 carat natural fancy light purple pink diamond certified by GIA with untreated status. The heart cu...

This piece comes directly from the vault of Atlantic Diamond Company—a family-run fine jewelry house with nearly 50 years of history serving elite collectors, retailers, and dealers ...

A captivating GIA Certified 6.55 carat Old Mine Brilliant diamond, graded F color and SI2 clarity, exuding antique charm and distinctive character. The diamond showcases broad facets...

Indulge in unparalleled elegance with this exquisite platinum necklace, a true masterpiece of craftsmanship and luxury. Carefully designed to captivate, this stunning piece features ...

This Two Door Strip Quilt Cupboard (2022) stands as a late and deeply resolved expression of Jim Rose’s legacy, bringing together his lifelong commitments to material honesty, historical continuity, and disciplined composition. The cabinet’s surface draws directly from the strip quilt tradition of Gee’s Bend, whose improvisational bands, shifting rhythms, and intuitive balance offered Rose a powerful model for structuring variation within order. As with all of Rose’s quilt cabinets, the color here is not applied but inherited. Every panel is made from found, pre-painted steel salvaged from signage, industrial machinery, and utilitarian infrastructure, and all colors remain exactly as discovered. Rose did not paint these surfaces; instead, he selected, cut, and arranged them, allowing each fragment’s prior life—scratches, holes, typography, and wear—to remain legible. This method aligns Rose’s practice ethically and materially with the Gee’s Bend tradition, where reuse and transformation are acts of respect rather than aesthetic affectation. The cabinet’s dark steel framework acts as a stabilizing armature, its rectilinear grid holding the animated color fields in quiet tension. The familiar two-door cupboard form grounds the work in domestic function, ensuring that visual complexity never eclipses use. Verticality and symmetry lend the piece a calm authority, while subtle asymmetries within the panels keep the surface alive and responsive. Created near the end of Rose’s career, this cupboard reads as both culmination and affirmation. It encapsulates his enduring contribution to contemporary furniture: demonstrating that objects can carry cultural memory through material itself, that restraint can coexist with richness, and that furniture—made with patience, respect, and clarity—can function simultaneously as utility, composition, and quiet witness to lived histories. Jim Rose Two Door Strip Quilt Cupboard, 2022 hot roll and found painted steel 48h x 39w x 18.50d in 121.92h x 99.06w x 46.99d cm JR0241 Bio Jim Rose (1966–2023) was an American furniture maker, artist, and metalworker whose work occupied a singular position between studio craft, sculpture, and functional design. Born in Beech Grove, Indiana, Rose trained as a sculptor, earning his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1988 after a brief period of study at Bard College. This sculptural foundation shaped his approach to furniture, in which proportion, structure, and surface were treated with the same rigor as utility, and everyday objects were understood as vehicles for aesthetic and ethical values. Working primarily in steel—often reclaimed or salvaged—Rose challenged conventional expectations of furniture materials. Through brushing, waxing, and patination, he developed surfaces that softened steel’s industrial associations, imparting warmth, depth, and a sense of age. His work drew on diverse historical and cultural sources, including Shaker furniture, Asian cabinetry, and the quilts of Gee’s Bend, yet these influences were never literal. Instead, Rose translated their underlying principles—clarity, restraint, repetition, and balance—into a contemporary language grounded in material honesty. Based for much of his career in Wisconsin, Rose was closely associated with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, including participation in its Arts/Industry residency program. His furniture and objects were widely exhibited in galleries and design fairs across the United States and featured in publications such as American Craft and Architectural Digest. His work entered both private and institutional collections during his lifetime, reflecting a sustained engagement with collectors, curators, and designers. Rose’s furniture is distinguished by its emphasis on durability, adaptability, and use. Cabinets, chairs, benches, and tables were engineered for longevity and daily life, incorporating practical features such as steel drawer glides, modular construction, and discreet accommodations for modern technology. This functional intelligence was inseparable from his broader philosophy: furniture, for Rose, was a form of quiet service, meant to support human activity while carrying forward the history embedded in its materials. Jim Rose’s work is held in the permanent collections of major institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Following his death in 2023, his legacy endures through a body of work that demonstrates how contemporary furniture can be both materially rigorous and deeply humane—objects shaped by patience, integrity, and an enduring respect for use. Education: 1989 B.F.A., Sculpture, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL 1988 Student at Large, Welding Technology, Triton College, Chicago, IL 1985 Undergraduate Photography Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Awards: 2008 Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship Award, Madison, WI 2005 Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA 2003 Grant Recipient for Shaker Interpretations in Cast Iron, PA Arts Assoc / WI Arts Board 2003 Arts/Industry Residency Program for Visual Artists, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Solo Exhibitions: 2023 CODA Final Show, Gallery VICTOR, Chicago, IL 2017 New Work, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2012 Simply Steel, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI 2007 Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Shaker in Steel / New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000 Shaker in Steel / New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Hands and Heart to Steel III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL National Exhibitions: 2023 Intersect Palm Springs, Gallery VICTOR, Palm Springs Convention Center, CA 2017 - 2018 SOFA Chicago – Gallery Victor Armendariz 1995 - 2016 SOFA Chicago, New York, Palm Beach - Ann Nathan Gallery 2011 - 2002 Art Chicago - Ann Nathan Gallery Group Exhibitions: 2022 Wunderkammer: Victor's Cabinet of Curiosities – 5th Anniversary Special Exhibit, Gallery VICTOR, Chicago, IL 2017 Coming Attractions: Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2017 Living with Art: The Newman Collection, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, Oklahoma 2016 Form Follows Function: The Intersection of Art and Craft, The Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, Wi 2015 NEO, Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 2015 ICFF, Furniture Society, Javits Convention Center, New York City, NY 2013 Vahki Revisited, The Enduring Spirit of a Craft Collection” Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ 2013 Fearless Furniture, Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, Indianapolis, IN 2013 Inaugural Exhibition, Museum Wisconsin of Art, West Bend, WI 2012 Sitting Pretty: Furniture from RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum, WI 2011 Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI 2010 Living with Art, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institution, NY 2009 Summer in Wisconsin, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2009 High Honors, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI 2008 Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Art and Design, NY 2007 Transformation 5: Contemporary Works in Found Materials, Art Association, Jackson, WY 2007 Transformation 5: Contemporary Works in Found Materials, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX (traveling exhibition) 2006 Show us Your Drawers, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Marriage of the Minds, Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art, Sturgeon Bay, WI 2006 27th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ 2006 Containers of All Dimensions, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ 2005 Transformation 5: Contemporary Works in Found Materials, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA 2004 Right at Home: American Studio Furniture, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. 2004 American Collections, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 2004 More Than Drawers-Wisconsin Cabinets, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI 2004 Objects of Wonder, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 2003 Planting, Potting and Pruning, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI 2003 Men at Work, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI 2002 Case Pieces: Contemporary Studio Furniture, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Univ of WI-Madison 2002 Sitting Pretty: Contemporary Wisconsin Chairs...

A fine antique dress form by renowned form maker Hall-Borchert. Original finish and in working order. Fabric body with metal fixtures and cast iron cage and base on wheels. It is a ...

Tiffany & Co. NOVO 4.39 ct Total Weight Platinum Cushion Brilliant Cut Diamond Engagement Ring is a stunning and elegant piece. The ring has a total weight of 6.2 grams and is sized ...

This contemporary console table is a celebration of wabi-sabi style. Crafted of wood reclaimed from Qing-dynasty architecture, the table has a minimalist waterfall design with doveta...

Circa 1985 Paloma Picasso for Tiffany & Company Sterling Silver with 18K Yellow Gold and Mabe Pearl Earrings, measuring 3/4 inch in diameter and being centrally set with a 11.5 M.M. ...

GIA Certified 10.11 Carat Pear Brilliant Diamond Platinum Ring A truly spectacular diamond ring showcasing a GIA Certified 10.11 Carat Pear Brilliant Diamond of timeless elegance. T...

This beautifully classic ring, boasts a 1.90 carat antique cushion cut diamond surrounded by elegant claw prongs, atop a gallery with four round brilliant cut diamonds and circular d...

This refined diamond necklace by Asprey showcases a distinctive chevron-shaped link design, executed in luminous 18K white gold and set with an elegant array of natural round brillia...

A 19th century French velocipede of a white pony, the horse of polychromed wood with horsehair mane and set upon an iron tricycle. Deaccessioned from the MacLean Collection of Asian...

Circa 1890 - 1900 14k Yellow Gold Crest Ring, the top measuring 5/8 x 1/2 inch and is set with a deep Red / Brown Carnelian with a deep engraved Crest....

Edward Wormley for Dunbar Occasional Table with Murano Mosaic Tiles, model 5425, Mahogany wood base, glass tiles with brass edge. Label on underside [Du...

Circa 1920s Patek Philippe for Tiffany & Company Ladies Wrist Watch, 26 X 9 M.M. 2 Piece Platinum Case set with European cut Diamonds totaling 1 Carat, the case sides and back are fu...

Assemblage No.02 is a captivating statement piece. Heavy, Rough and impenetrable, this sculpture is a testament to Jim Rose's work. Meticulously crafted, artist Jim Rose was a master...

This absolutely stunning three stone diamond ring by Cartier features a 3.00 carat emerald cut diamond with F color and VS1 clarity, flanked by two trillion cut diamonds weighing app...

Lyndon by Vico Magistretti for Oluce; chrome-plated finished candelabra-style body, enclose transparent glass spheres, inside which the light bulb is hosted.  

Ercole Barovier Barbarico Vase For Barovier & Toso Italy, 1951 Additional information: Dimensions: 4" W x 4" D x 12.25" H

Cartier Ballerine Solitaire Engagement Ring and Wedding Band Set, a perfect symbol of love and elegance. This stunning set features a brill...

During winter in the colder provinces of China, life revolved around the kang, a heated brick platform that household members would sit or recline upon. Placed on top of the kang, lo...

This engagement ring is a bold expression of refined artistry and elegant design. The upper portion of the setting that supports the center stone is crafted in 18K yellow gold while ...

Structure No. 244 reveals a quieter but essential strand of Jim Rose’s legacy—his ability to recognize expressive potential in the byproducts of making and to elevate remnants into resolved forms. Created from repurposed painted steel scraps generated during the construction of his quilt cabinets...

This unusually-shaped carpet is known as a "makden" and was originally used by a nomadic traveler as an artful covering for his horse. Placed between the saddle and the horse, the makden cushioned the rigid saddle and kept the horse warm in cold climates. Most under-saddle carpets...

These refined drop earrings are crafted in solid 18K white gold and set with a total of 6.20 carats of natural round brilliant-cut diamonds, selected in the E color range with VVS cl...

Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Mid-Century, T'ang Marriage Coffee Table, Etched Bronze, USA c. 1965 Rare and important 'T'ang Marriage' coffee table by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne (also r...

The Cartier Etincelle Diamond Pave Wedding Band is a valuable and elegant piece with significant resale potential. Its like-new condition, paired with its high-quality diamonds and o...

GRS Certified 7.21 Carat Vivid Green Emerald Diamond Ring This exquisite ring features a breathtaking 7.21 carat Vivid Green emerald, GIA certified for its exceptional quality and ...

Dated to the turn of the century, this provincial stool would have been used throughout a courtyard home as versatile everyday seating. Hand-crafted of pine, the tapered stool...

These exceptional David Webb clip on earrings are a bold expression of the maison’s iconic design language and masterful craftsmanship. Crafted in rich 18K yellow gold, the earrings ...

Prized for their elegance, along with the intricacy of techniques and history, Murano glass chandeliers continue to add brilliance to modern and traditional homes. This mid-century p...

Exquisite 24-Carat Burmese Unheated Sapphire Pendant in Platinum This rare and timeless piece of luxury features a stunning 24-carat Burmese unheated sapphire set in a beautiful pla...

A fold-out dining table and bookshelf in pine, crafted in France in the 1960s. Rustic yet sculptural, the piece hinges on utility—with a desk surface that folds seamlessly into its o...

This classic designed bracelet by Jabel contains 47 top quality round brilliant cut diamonds weighing approximately 3.30 carats total. In an twisted rope link design and beautifully ...

Antique Tiffany Style Salvaged Chicago Church Green Upper Transom Stained Glass Windows - Pair Circa Early 1900’s Dimensions 5 Ft x 4 Ft

Gilbert Rohde for Herman Miller Executive Office Group Desk, 1942 Teak veneer executive desk with brass-plated steel pulls, vinyl accents, and six drawers including two sliding trays...

A vintage late 20th century Tibetan hand-knotted runner with a horizontal stripe pattern woven in varying shades of reds, and some stripes with zigzag patterns, and others with varie...

Jacques Adnet style Leather and Brass Full Size Bed Frame, France 1950s. Bed frame is saddle stitched leather over steel, brass. Bed frame shows beautiful rich patina. Measures 37"...

Edward Wormley for Dunbar "A" Frame Arm Chair, Horseshoe curved back with original leather-covered armrests, solid mahogany frame, brass exposed screws...

Striking mid-century modern pendant light featuring a sculptural arrangement of overlapping chrome circles with brass pinheads connecting them. The layered circular forms create a dy...

A vintage-inspired engagement ring crafted in 14k white gold, featuring a marquise-cut diamond of approximately 0.69 carats. The stone is securely set in a bezel-style mount that of...