New York City - Wall Decorations

Thierry Despont, best-known as a very successful architect, was also an accomplished artist. In his painting practice, when not analyzing the smallest, most detailed creatures of the...

English Victorian (19th/20th-Cent) landscape of a mountain scene with a forest and river. Oil on canvas.

A vintage Persian Hamadan Oriental rug in runner size, size 16'6 x 2'6, circa 1930. This lovely hand knotted carpet features a dazzling floral design in the ivory central field, alte...

A pair of circa 1900s English silver plated wall plaques depicting deer. Measurements: Diameter 18" Depth 4"   

Pair large Italian gilt-carved brackets. Pair of gilt-carved brackets with rich silvered-gold patina and faux marble tops, Italy, circa 1770s Dimens...

This best-selling graphic wallpaper is available to order by the roll or sample—the perfect décor for kids, adult, your home or business. Samples a...

Oil on canvas by the American painter, George Henry Hall (1825-1913), depicting two cherubs bathing at a well fountain with maiden seated beside. Stretcher 21.75 by 26.5 inches. Per...

Antique Chinese Embroidery, Origin: China, Circa: Late 19th Century

Amish boy painting. Charming vintage oil on canvas of country farm boy in a barn, labeled "Amish Boy of Pa; 1965." Signed A.B.W. American, circa 1965. Pai...

Large Postmodern Abstract composition with mechanical and biomorphic forms. Verso signed , titled , and dated: "Totaliser / Yeni Mao / 2006." Light soil and dust accretion. Art 60....

This hand-printed wall-covering with Aimée's signature Robots is he perfect wallpaper for your child's nursery, bedroom or playroom! Samples are available for $18 including US shipp...

Contemporary French artist Veronique Guillou framed hand cut paper sculpture. Paper is cut, painted and sprayed to remain in a three dimensional abstract shape. White wood frame.

Numbered and titled drawing of female nudes, signed by artist Jonas Gerard. Number 81 of 290. This features five female forms in various positions, with perfect shading and detail. P...

Antique Persian Baktiari Oriental Rug, Small size An antique Baktiari oriental rug, size 6'9" x 4'2", circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a symmetrical desi...

"Summer Flowers In The Catskills", photo collage print by Swedish abstract expressionist artist Peter Astrom. This is the only print that was made by th...

Nijinsky as Petrushka Original life-size painting by Lynn Curlee The famous dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky, as PETRUSHKA, one of his greatest roles. 1911. ...

Vintage (20th Century) oil painting depicting boats pulled ashore alongside families in the sand, and a red roofed village in the distance, in a heavily distressed gold frame with a ...

White Bunny Drawing by Oleg Cassini for Playboy October 1979, Signed. Illustration of a woman wearing a white body suit, choker, and hat. Signed by Oleg Cassini. Notice the body suit is in the shape of the head of a bunny with clever use of the 'whiskers'. Approximate Measurements: Length: 11" Width: 14" Property from the Collection of Steven Rosengard, Chicago, Illinois This original drawing was commissioned by Playboy and included in the October 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine (pages 225-227) in a feature that included works from designers such as Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini, Edith Head, Fernando Sanchez, and Monika Tilley, among others, who create their versions of the Playboy bunny costume. Candace Collins can be seen modeling some of the designs in the feature. Oleg Cassini is an icon of twentieth-century fashion. Though born to Russian aristocracy and raised in Italy, he built a fashion empire that was unmistakably American. Cassini is perhaps best known for the hundreds of designs he created for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (see images 4-8), but his achievements as a collector, connoisseur, and quintessential twentieth-century man go far beyond Camelot. In 1913, Oleg Cassini was born in Paris to the Russian diplomat Count Alexander Loiewski and Countess Marguerite Cassini, a Russian aristocrat of Italian ancestry who also had an interesting link to America. The daughter of Count Arthur Cassini, Russian Ambassador to the United States during the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations, Marguerite dazzled turn-of-the-century Washington as her father’s official hostess and left her mark on the capital city. Stationed in Denmark when the Russian Revolution toppled the czar, Ambassador Cassini and family were exiled to Switzerland before settling in Florence, Italy, where young Oleg was raised. A true Renaissance man, he spoke Russian, French, and Danish before adding Italian and English; he studied medieval and modern European military history and costume and learned to draw; he learned horseback riding, fencing, and the art of chivalry; and, most importantly, he came to understand the struggles of the Russian titled class and other European aristocrats in the wake of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Countess Cassini started a successful fashion business in Florence, and soon the talented young Oleg was sent to Paris to sketch the latest collections for recreation in Italy. In Rome in his early 20s, Cassini created fashions for high society women and designed for a few films, which planted the seed for his move to Hollywood. The drive to reinvent himself brought Cassini to America in the 1930s; in his autobiography he describes arriving nearly penniless in mid-Depression New York City where his title as an exiled Russian Count meant even less than in war-devastated Europe. Down and out, Cassini struggled for employment, having sketching skills but no knowledge of the wholesale trade required for survival in Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue fashion district. However, he excelled at making connections, and Cassini slowly entered New York society. He was soon joined by younger brother Igor (who had studied in America and travelled with the young Emilio Pucci) and his parents, the once-dazzling Countess and his father, the displaced diplomat still loyal to Russia. The family settled in Washington, D.C., and Igor worked his way up the Hearst newspaper chain to become the famous society columnist Cholly Knickerbocker. In New York, Oleg Cassini married the troubled socialite Merry Fahrney (who would go on to marry eight times), but the marriage ended in scandal for Oleg, and he decided to follow his original intention and head for Hollywood. Despite initial difficulties, Cassini gained access to Hollywood’s elite (partially through his skills on the tennis court), and was soon hired as a designer at Paramount Pictures alongside the redoubtable Edith Head. In her 1941 film debut I Wanted Wings, Veronica Lake wore a memorable Cassini design. That same year, Cassini met and married the newest young Hollywood star on the scene, the beautiful 20th Century Fox–talent Gene Tierney. With the outbreak of World War II, Cassini enlisted in the Coast Guard but was transferred to the U.S. Army Cavalry which allowed officers of foreign birth. He attended basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the horsemanship he learned as a boy served him greatly. He attended Officer Candidate School and reached the rank of First Lieutenant (he also became an American citizen at this time, losing his title of Count). Cassini spent several years posted at Fort Riley, where Tierney joined him before he landed a convenient military post in Hollywood. As Tierney’s career thrived (she played the title role in Otto Preminger’s Laura in 1944), she was able to assert her influence over 20th Century Fox’s head Daryl Zanuck, who hired Cassini as designer for Tierney on her 1946 film The Razor’s Edge, which proved to be a brilliant showcase for his talents. The pair separated the same year and, again seeking reinvention, Cassini re-established himself in New York City as a fashion designer. By 1950, the Oleg Cassini label was born. Combining his knowledge of Old World and modern Europe, Hollywood, the tennis courts of Palm Beach and Newport, and of course, New York City, Oleg Cassini invented a new brand of fashion that was distinctly American and of its moment. For his first collection, Cassini took to the stage, narrating the looks and imbuing the scene with his personality, unusual in an industry where the designers typically remained backstage and the models were called by number over a PA. The first collection was a smash — the president of Lord & Taylor devoted all of their storefront windows to his designs — and by 1955 sales had reached $5,000,000. Oleg Cassini’s career had turned a very positive corner. Cassini spent the early 1950s traversing the country, personally selling his collections to department stores in the interior, something his predecessors had never done, and moving between the Hollywood and New York scenes. Cassini’s brother Igor coined the term “the Jet Set” for this generation that constantly flew from New York to Los Angeles (then a ten-hour flight), Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, and the Riviera. In 1954, Cassini set out to woo Grace Kelly and sent her roses every day. The two were briefly engaged before her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco. In December 1960, Cassini’s career-defining opportunity came when he was chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her fashions for the White House. Cassini had long known Joe Kennedy and his war-hero son John, and had first met Jacqueline Bouvier before her marriage in the early 1950s. Invited by President-Elect Kennedy to meet Jacqueline at Georgetown Hospital (she had just given birth to son John Jr.) to present to her drawings of potential dresses and First Lady looks, Cassini worked furiously to prepare a new line for the First Lady. Mrs. Kennedy had always had her clothes made by the top French couturiers of the day, but for the White House she wanted an American designer. Cassini wrote in his autobiography that he told the First Lady: “‘You have an opportunity here,’ I said, ‘for an American Versailles.’ She understood completely what I was trying to communicate; she began to talk excitedly about the need to create an entirely new atmosphere at the White House. She wanted it to become the social and intellectual capital of the nation” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 327). Mrs. Kennedy loved Cassini’s design for a gown to wear to the Inaugural Gala (she had already ordered a dress from Bergdorf’s for the Inaugural Ball), and Cassini was selected as the First Lady’s designer and was soon dubbed the “Secretary of Style.” From 1960 to 1963, Oleg Cassini would design over 300 items for Mrs. Kennedy, creating the “Jackie Look” that contributed not only to a fashion revolution but also the dawn of a new age. Cassini wrote that “Jackie played a very active role in the selection of her clothes. She loved brilliant colors — pistachio, hot pink, yellow, and white among others. Her sense of style was very precise; she would make editorial comments on the sketches I sent her. She always knew exactly what she wanted; her taste was excellent” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 334). After the Camelot years, Cassini’s business flourished and grew into a major industry; his name appeared on everything from couture to tennis-, sport-, and swimwear, car interiors, housewares, and perfume. He collected beautiful and rare artwork, arms and armor, and antique furniture, and lived the lifestyle projected by his image. From this period onward, Cassini also came to live in important homes. Of his Gothic Gramercy Park townhouse on Manhattan’s 19th Street he would write imaginatively, “I walked into the foyer and immediately fell in love. It was a place unlike any other in New York, a sixteenth-century Dutch house transported brick by brick from Europe by the Wells Fargo family in the early twentieth century. There was a vaulted, twenty-foot ceiling in the living room, leaded windows, elegantly carved wood paneling...

Set of Six Elephant Hunting Scene Engravings in Gilt Frames. Antique Williamson & Howitt engravings of elephants in varied orientalist hunting scenes and landscapes in elegant corner...

Large abstract pair of lithographs “Moscow Museum Commemorative Suite (Diptych), 1989,” in vibrant colors on paper by Mihail Chemiakin, Russia 1989 (sign...

Red "Suzani". A beautiful old embroidered cover "Suzani" from Uzbekistan in the style and color palette that is associated with the city of Tashkent. The motifs are executed in silk ...

Abstract Mixed Media Collage on Canvas by Susan E. Wolfe. 2000s, NY. Paint and paper.

“In order to use colour effectively it is necessary to recognise that colour deceives continually.” Josef Albers “We never really perceive what colour really is, as it physically is. This fact makes colour the most relative medium in art.” Josef Albers “The structures are irrational statements which illustrate the artist’s claim that the eye seeks, in endless exploration, to fathom and master the contradictions of reversed symmetry. One begins to study the structure at some point where isometric order is suggested. One finds evidence for the reading of the work, but when one tries to take in the whole structure as a unit, new evidence requires a drastic reorganization of the work’s implications. That which was above shifts to below, that which was negative becomes positive, that which was full becomes vacant, that which was in front has moved to the rear. Having found a balance, the eye’s testing finds the entire constellation shifting into its reverse.” Gerald Nordland, in his essay for the “White Embossings on Gray” catalogue For sale, one print from Albers’ late in life exploration of color and perception, the “White Embossings on Gray” Series. For this series, renowned California print...

Antique Persian Meshed Oriental Rug, Room size An antique Persian Meshed oriental rug, size 12'8 x 10'2, circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features floral elements...

Copy of American Impressionist painting titled "Waiting for the Ferry" showing woman by rivers edge with bridge and man in boat Condition: Good; Wear cons...

A beautiful black and off-white English porcelain plate depicting a country scene with horse, hunting dogs, and fowl birds. With maker's mark: Royal Caultron, England, est. 1774. Ver...

Copy of an impressionist painting titled "Newport" showing two women by the shore with parasol

Under the Blanket Project, Naomi Clark creates what she titles Quilt Paintings. She breathes new life into old wool and cotton camping blankets culled from EBay, flea markets and gar...

Original 1790 NY state inn license letterpressed in a faux gilt and lacquer frame.     

A circa 1920's Swiss painted panel with brass repoussé frame. Measurements: Length: 44.75" Height: 25"

Jubilee Street Party Elland, Yorkshire 1977 illustrates the defiance of their subjects in continuing as they have always done, and demonstrating a tenacity that would later contrast ...

A very beautiful original Belgian exotic botanical vibrant off-set lithograph, 'Decaisnea Insignis', by artis Horto Van Houtteano, circa 19th century, Belgium. 'Decaisnea Insignis' i...

Contemporary American artist Patrick Phillips "Is an abstract expressionist painter influenced by the 'New York School' artists including Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and Helen F...

An early 20th-century finely woven Persian Kashan rug. 4'6'' x 6'9''

This 1960s French three dimensional wall sculpture is made up of four acoustic panels framed within one larger frame. The panels were originally from a...

One-of-a-kind hand-knotted Turkish Anatolian rug with 2 deers and 2 other animals on a green ground Measures: 1'9” x 2'3”.

Vladimir Velickovic ( France, Born 1935), a color lithograph with collage, signed and numbered 9/90 Dimension 79 x 80 cm. Framed. Not examined out of frame.

Want summer all year round? This monstera deliciosa leaf pattern brings the jungle into your home! Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message us to purchas...

Dutch style (20th century) gilt framed oil painting portrait of lady wearing bonnet and lace cuffs (Franz Hals mother).  

Scatter size Persian Kilim from the late 20th century with a jolly-go-lucky man on a camel field. This was originally belonging to a private Persian collector who requested to make...

American 20th Century Oil on Canvas, Robert Springfels

Made in 2009 by Naomi Clark Wool blanket with paint and appliqué Naomi Clark’s Quilt Paintings are made from vintage camp blankets culled from E...

Grotto view of Capri. Gold-framed French watercolor views of Capri entitled, "Grotto a Capri - Le 24 Octobre 1846," Dimensions: Sight: 12.5" W x 9" H; overall 18.5" W x 14.5" H.  

A colorful formal fine quality connoisseur level Persian Malayer rug. Ivory ground with soft mutli brown color medallion, lime green accents, rusty ...

Beautifully Abrashed Antique American Ingrain Coverlet Textile by John Kachel, Origin: America, Mid 19th Century

A Very Large and Unusual 19th Century KPM Porcelain Plaque by Carl Meinhelt. This plaque was produced by the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM) in Berlin and is signed by the art...

Vintage European Kilim flatwoven rug flatwoven Kelim rug handmade tapestry 5x6 4'9" x 6'3" 145cm x 191cm "This is a beautiful European kilim Ru...

Scatter size Persian Kilim from the late 20th century with a flurry of pigeons in beige, gray, and brown This was originally belonging to a private Persian collector who requested...

American Victorian wood framed lithograph of riders on path titled Summer in the Country (Currier & Ives)

Under the blanket project, Naomi Clark creates what she titles quilt paintings. She breathes new life into old wool and cotton camping blankets culled from EBay, flea markets and gar...

A fun, textural pattern inspired by the white-spotted rose anemone. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message us to purchase. Printing: Digital pigment pr...

A brilliant set of 2 vintage original 1960's LUI magazines, featuring standout Brigit Bardot covers. Offered here are the full magazines; intact; in good ...

Diverse sea creatures from the Loch Ness traverse a mysterious lagoon, popping out against the rippling water. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message us...

Multidisciplinary artist, designer, photographer, and founder of her eponymous brand of wallpapers, tiles, and home textiles, Aimée Wilder presents Shadow Wildling, a new series of large-format silkscreened paintings. This debut fine art edition draws inspiration from Aimée’s textile design background to explore tessellation, positive/negative space, mathematics, fractal dragon curves, and nuanced color relationships.  These new paintings, however, reverse the usual role of patterned designs within interior spaces. Rather than an all-over application of patterned wallpaper, which fills the space floor to ceiling, each Shadow Wildling work distills a pattern onto the single plane of a large painting, intended to create the perfect focal point for today’s modern interiors. Commissions for new editions in custom sizes and colors available. Garden 2021 Acrylic silkscreen ink on canvas...

Antique Chinese Art deco rug, room size, circa 1920. A one-of-a-kind antique Chinese Mandarin oriental carpet, hand-knotted with medium thi...

Extremely fine embroidery of a neoclassical maiden dressed as a shepherdess in a forest with a rustic thatched cottage in background. Wonderful use of short and long stitches and sha...

Copy of an impressionist landscape painting titled "Edge of the Sea" Showing a salt marsh under rolling clouds Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

Christopher sharples, steel 2017. Cardigan, Wales Archival pigment print - printed on Hahnemühle photo rag paper. Edition of nine (6/9) And 2 Artist Proofs. Presented in a painted white box...

Vintage painting depicting a river boat fishing scene with weathered painted wood frame.

A Flemish rustic tapestry panel from the 18th century, featuring a lady reposing in shade of a large tree, seated with a picnic basket as her hound plays beside her. Enclosed by a sc...