France - Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

"Montaigne" cabinet with 2 doors, entirely made of lacquered wood. 1 central compartment. Limited creation from the collaboration between Galerie Glustin X Nicolet France, 2023

Antique end of the 19th century genuine and superb Louis Vuitton "Malle Courrier" or steamer trunk, medium size, rare and sought after Tissé monogram canvas, black metal bound with b...

Exceptional long custom-made walnut sideboard or credenza on eight reeded and tapered legs, circa 1940s. Base with four drawers, one silverware drawer with lined felt and felt cover...

Original lock and key This piece of furniture shows no recess on its upper part. It opens with four folding-doors and two drawers within the belt. The key bears the date 1524 above cross motifs. Burgundy and Lyon regions subordinated themselves to architecture in a different manner than the other french schools. Rather than using particularly columns and pediments pieces of furniture from Lyon borrow architecture’s organization principles and rigorous designs. On the upper body a strong feeling of balance and symmetry appears with the folding doors reliefs. Swags of flowers and fruits held with knot cloth centered by a man seating on his arms. Here profiles, masks and chou de Bourgogne mingle with the structuring scrolls. The two lateral terms wear draperies and the goddess Diana in the center wears a belt of fruits similar to Hugue Sambin’s designs (Termes de Diane et de Venus, 1554, BNF). The two palm-leaves enriched drawers and the alternating scrolls belt balance the weight of the cornice with its alternatings consoles and tops. The lower body is also adorned by three terms with a feminine one in the center, all three are wearing fruits on their heads. The folding doors are centered upon a motif of cut cuirs by a mask in high relief. Wearing a feathered tiara...

Guillerme et Chambron, rare 1950 oak wardrobe, edition Votre Maison

Wall console lines all in solid walnut wood with 2 drawers.       

Rare high credenza in Brazilian rosewood by Gianfranco Frattini Model 504 made by Bernini, Italy around 1961. Vertical rolling curtain doors Good condition

Imposing desk from the 50's and 60's attributed to the Italian designer Vittorio Dassi. Structure in solid wood and veneer, top in red glass. It is composed of two boxes with 4 drawers on each side. Very nice desk...

We like the graphic effect of this rectangular headboard in solid pine designer by Charlotte Perriand for Les Arcs. The top part has an openwork strip with a grid pattern. The cent...

Shelf by Olivia Cognet Dimensions: W 210 x D 15 x H 20 cm Materials: Ceramic. Module of 3 parts. Each of Olivia’s handmade creations is a unique work of art, the snapshot of a preci...

Large low bookcase in mahogany and mahogany veneer, opening with two full doors and two central glass doors in the form of a pointed arch, for displaying books or collectibles. Rich ...

Antique French Louis XVI mahogany secretary chest of drawers topped with a white Carrara marble, fluted legs finished with golden bronze clogs and thorough dressed in bronze and bras...

Louis XVI Style Painted Armoire in Carved Wood, France, Late 19th Century Dimensions: 170 cm W × 35 cm D × 255 cm H France, circa 1880 Elegant and stately, this Louis XVI style a...

Beautiful mahogany chest of drawers with 2 drawers, with rich gilded bronze ornamentation: pearl threads, flower sprays highlight the play of the work of speckled or veneered mahogan...

Mortaise wall shelf-400 by Clemence Birot Dimensions: 40 x 25 x 6,5 cm Materials: cork, metal. Clemence Birot started her career in Copenhagen, Denmark, and discovered a design ...

An exciting example of French design firm Maison Jansen’s commissioned pieces. This large sideboard is made from solid oak, lacquered in a rich dark brown and bronze–golden finish. T...

French reconstruction designer Pierre Cruège's forme libre masterpiece bureau with abattant. Rare natural oak version Brass details Inside the desk compartment, a letter rack and ...

Rare pedestal table / bookcase in Japanese / Chinese / Asian style, richly carved. With red marble top, swivel shelves and tripod base carved with dragon / demon heads and clawed le...

Superb Memphis-style display unit in ABS plastic, with colors reminiscent of Gerrit Rietveld's creations, in very good condition.

French Reconstruction era highboy credenza in the style of Atelier de Marolles and Jean Touret featuring a 3 doors rectangular unit sitting on a oak f...

IMPORTANT 1925 DRESSER WITH BIRCHBARK AND INLAID WITH MINERALS Unique piece Sophie Gallardo & Georges Cassan Height: 93 cm Length: 137 cm Width: 56 cm Birch bark marquetry and min...

Guillerme et Chambron, 1960 oak wardrobe, Votre Maison Edition Ceramic by Boleslaw Danikowski.

Bibliothèque étagère des années 60, style moderniste, en bois style teck, pieds en métal noir avec embouts laiton pour ajustement au sol, 4 étagères intérieures ouvertes, très bon ét...

An exceptional and massive wall shelving system, to be fixed on the wall, with curved angles, Space-Age, Post-Modern, Pop, Memphis, Radical, with a base to be fixed on the wall (8 holes are set for the fixing) and 6 large shelves in thick strips of plexiglass, to be attributed, France 1980...

Early 20th century French "pitch pine" wood bibliotheque in three parts removable. Four ornaments at the top which can be removable. (You can see only two ornaments on the picture b...

Shelves Zodiac Signs set of 2, with zodiac signs carved around the structure frame. With 4 clear glass shelves each and with gilded metal structure each. Base in white stone and reco...

Pair of chests of drawers in wood upholstered with an off-white leather worked like parchment in order to be as thin as possible. Brass ring between the 2 drawers. Creation by Studi...

Shelf oracle with chromed metal structure in gold finish with black tempered glass shelves. Also available in chrome finish.     

Low chest with 4 drawers signed by the great Danish designer Kai Kristiansen and made by the cabinetmaker and designer Aksel Kjersgaard. In his designs, Kristiansen places a strong e...

Oakwood Original lock and key   This beautiful and robust chest stands on square feet ending in flattened buns. The base presents plain mouldings. The facade is divided in four panel...

Bookcase in Red Oak and Sipo, France 2023. The American oak tops respect the original shape of the tree, the free-form edges are polished. The Sipo uprights are assembled and corked....

Walnut medallion with an oriental decoration in mother-of-pearl, wood and bone marquetry. It opens with 2 doors onto 9 drawers, with different compartments. This medallion is typ...

Jette-Habits stamped by Jorj Rual. Impressive coat rack in wood and metal. Beautifully designed and executed. France, circa 1935.

Cabinet patch in lacquered wood Measures: Height 82.68 in. (210 cm) Width 43.31 in. (110 cm) Depth 19.3 in. (49 cm) 246 kg Guggenheim cabinet is available in two finishes (rosewood o...

Charming 2-body mahogany bookcase dating from the 19th century. The lower part is made up of two doors on either side of a niche open to shelves. Above are 3 drawers. The upper part ...

Chest of drawers Empire period (early 19th century) Mahogany 4 drawers Original marble W 130 x D 60 x H 91 cms 4900 euros

Signed Forest à Paris A rare Louis XIV style wardrobe with a break-fronted ogee pediment. Opening with two side cupboards flanking a regulator clock, richly decorated with marquet...

Very large oak pharmacy counter opening on the front with four sliding glass doors and a small glass shelf on a mirrored background in the upper section, topped with a baluster galle...

This French armoire is part of the Mélanie collection, a modern interpretation of the French Directoire style of the late 18th century. This style is famous for its straight, classi...

Etagère murale en pin vintage, dans le style Maison Regain des années 80. 2 crochets métalliques pour la suspendre. Très bon état. Ref 240 323 Hauteur : 51...

Antique Louis Philippe buffet cabinet, made circa 1850-1860 This type of buffet was used as the centrepiece of a room. It was used to st...

Small sideboard called jam cabinet opening a door on the front in natural wood with green patina. Beautiful oak door carved with Renaissance motifs. Renaissance period work Very go...

French side cabinet nightstand bedside table mirror top midcentury Exotic wood Unusual siren drawers button Very good condition, the varnish has been redone, the original mirror has ...

A regionalist sideboard by Victor Courtray France 1940s. In Brown Oak. A great quality of execution. In good condition.

This Chiffonier Semainier belongs to our TRADITION collection, which takes its design and inspiration from the French countryside "proviincial" style, also called "Campagne chic" an...

Cees Braackman for Editions Pastoe small side cabinet, flap door circa 1950.

Large Louis XV-style 19th-century flat desk in solid beech veneer with inlay, opening with three drawers including a central drawer in the waistband with floral bronze fittings and r...

Beautiful Renaissance two-body buffet with four doors and six drawers. On the upper part of the buffet, who hide two secrets drawers, an alternating band of three masks, represents a mythological scene: Zeus changed into a swan seduces Leda on the banks of the Eurotas. The sides of the buffet are decorated with foliage and vines. The doors cornices...

Pitchpin wardrobe in bamboo style, 1900 doll's house window panes with mirror on the front 50 cm high 28 cm wide 12 cm deep Additional information: S...

This 2-door and 3-drawer low sideboard is designed by Eric Gizard - Paris. It is 100% made in France with solid ash wood, veneer and lacquered doors in MDF panels. Each door and e...

Superb large Scandinavian secretary. 4 large drawers on the lower part. A lockable shelf folds out to provide a large work space. Inside 2 drawers, 2 horizontal compartments and 3 ve...

Grande bibliothèque étagère vintage des années 70, en rotin, jolies façades en bois et cannage, 3 étagères ouvertes, 1 grand tiroir, 1 module 2 portes avec une étagère intérieure. La...

Mid-Century Modern Cabinet in the style of Osvaldo Borsani, Italy Material: Rosewood veneer, glass top Dimensions: H 131 x W 171 x D 49.5 cm Year: circa 1960 Mid-Century Modern Sid...

Palissander veneered belief with decorated and lacquered parts, brass parts, and treated glass Asiatic éléments are so nice and so representative High top is in glass (mix green, g...

4-post bookcase in oak and walnut, Italy 1955. Only surviving example of a furniture set created for Italy's first apartment hotel in Ventimiglia. Brass slides are embedded in the bl...

As soon as 1540 France's second Renaissance is in the making, intimately linked to the rediscovery of the Antique world. The development of the printing and engraving industry allows the spread of artworks and models in many cities and countries. The Italian influence can be perceived in every artistic field. While the French king entrust the most talented Italian artists with major projects such as Il Rosso or Primaticcio in Fontainebleau, French artists also travel to Italy to form themselves to this new style. In Italy they get acquainted with the work of Leo Battista Alberti the first to theorize perspective (De Pictura, 1435-36) and architecture (De re oedificatoria, 1541). Those two publications would have a revolutionary impact on arts. Furniture is marked by the work of the most famous Italian architects of the time as well as French architects. Indeed Philibert de l'Orme competes with Alberti and by the end of his life publishes several treaties including one devoted to a theory of architecture (1567). Unfortunately he would not live to complete the second volume. In this treaty he expresses his interest for mathematical norms applied to architecture, copied from the Antique. His journeys in Italy allowed him to accumulate the most sophisticated references. Jean Bullant, another architect of great talent also theorizes his practice. He establishes rules characterizing Greco-Roman art staying faithful to Vitruvius. Following this new inspiration the structure of furniture evolves. From then on appear columns, capitals, cornices, friezes and architraves. The ornamentation uses this inspiration as well with egg-and-dart, palm leaf and rose adorning the most beautiful pieces. In Lyon, crossroad where meet merchants from everywhere those new experiments are welcomed. Lyon florishing printing industry allows the spreading of models and treaties essential to the artist's work. Thus the first publication of Vitruvius' De Architectura in France would be printed in Lyon in 1532. Artists from Lyon rediscover and familiarize themselves with the Antique knowledge very early. They adopt those new ideas and use them in their own creations. Lyon cabinet-makers re interpret Antique architecture and Italian Renaissance palaces to give their pieces a pure and harmonious architectural structure. Grooved pilasters are particularly favored. They are topped by capitals of diverse orders always respecting the sequencing with simpler ones for the lower levels and the richest ones on the higher levels. As for the ornamentation, one of the great distinctiveness of Lyon workshops remains the architectural perspective illusions, drawing inspiration from Tuscany. True masterpiece of the Second French Renaissance this important cabinet illustrates Lyon workshops' taste for fine Italian architecture inspired by Antiquity. An architectural perspective of great quality is treated in symmetry on each panel. This two-bodied cabinet without recess stands on four rectangular feet. The base comprises a molding, a palm leaf frieze and is bordered by a braid. The lower body is divided by three grooved pilasters with Tuscan capitals framing two door-leaves. The two panels are encircled by a moudled frame with palm leaves. They are finely carved with a decor of fantasized architecture depicting an Italian Renaissance palace erected symmetrically on each side of a grooved pilaster. On the ground floor a door opens through a stilted arch while the stories are opened with mullioned windows, dormers and occuli. Two large pegged-boss cladded pillars support the entablature enriched by a palm leaf frieze upon which stands an arch whose coffered intrados is centred by a rose. Behind this arch a pyramid appears, standing in front of a second facade with a window topped by a broken curvilinear pediment under a cul-de-four with a shell. The checker flooring gives depth to the low-reliefs creating vanishing points structuring the panels and guiding the eye of the observer. A thin laurel braid highlights the belt of the cabinet where are located two drawers. Their facades are adorned by palm leaves in hoops. The upper body is encircled with palm leaves. The same ternary division as in the lower body appears. However, the pilasters are topped by Ionic capitals with volutes and egg-and-dart. The door-leaves are framed with flowers. On the panels the artist has designed another architectural decor. On the foreground open two arches on top of grooved pilasters with rectangular capitals adorned with palm leaves. The arches are enriched with braids and the coffered intrados bears a decor of roses. The spandrels also bear a flower decor. In the background another arcature hosts a fluted grooved column topped with double basket acanthus capital, characteristic of Corinthian order. The triangular pediment is interrupted by a choux bourguignon. A large cornice crowns the cabinet. It stands on pilasters and forms an entablature comprising a palm leaf frieze and an egg-and-dart, triglyph and palm leaf cornice. The cabinet's sides have also been carefully considered. The lower body's panels are enriched with an arch rising above a broken pediment portico hosting a twisted column. Flowers garnish the spandrels. An architectural facade completes the decor. The upper body's panels present two arches supported by a facade opened with dormers and mullioned windows as well as cartouches (one bears the inscription 1580 dating the cabinet) suggesting the interior of an Italian Renaissance palace, confirmed by the chandeliers. The flooring leads our gaze to a second arch with a broken curvilinear pediment where stands a flower vase. This arch opens onto a perspective of another facade along a road. Inside the cabinet, on the lower body door-leaves appear two designs. On the right door is depicted a Crucifixion. Saint Mary and Saint John flank the Christ on the cross. In the bottom part is inscribed « Dure uiator abis nihil haec spectacula curas / Pendenti cum sis unica cura Deo. / Tota suo moriente dolet natura Magistro. / Nil qui solus eras caussa dolenda doles. ». The signature [Christoff Swartz Monachiensis pinx[it] / Ioa[nnes] Sadeler sculp[it]] tells us it was made by Johan Sadeler I (1550-1600) after Christoph Schwartz (1548-1592). This engraving belongs to an ensemble depicting the Passion of Christ Johan Sadeler executed in 1589 after an altar piece painted by Christoph Schwartz for the private chapel of Renée of Loraine, wife of Duke William V of Bavaria. This altar piece made of nine copper panels has been destroyed during the 19th century. The Crucifixion panel once in the centre of the altar piece is the only one that survived and is today kept in Munich's Alte Pinakothek. On the left door appears Saint Francis receiving the stigmata. The inscription says : « Signastidomine Servum Tuum. Franciscum. Signis Redemptionis Nostrae ». This Renaissance cabinet with an architectural decor appearing as much in the structure faithful to Antique rules...

"Curiosity" cabinet with 2 doors, in brass with authentic butterflies under glass covers. Stainless steel feet and wooden interior Numbered and...

Pretty piece in solid elm with entirely original patina, celebration of craftsmanship and mid-century design, composed of 3 doors closing with shelves. A large central shelf allows y...