New York City - Wall Decorations

A late 16th Century Flemish Historical Tapestry panel. This vertically oriented decorative tapestry panel depicts a female figure at bottom, sitting within an elaborate floral reserv...

Nijinsky in the Lezginka Original life-size painting by Lynn Curlee The great dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in one of his famous roles, 1909. This painti...

As part of Marimekko's ongoing efforts to promote the brand worldwide, this piece is from a line of posters sent to distributors, press, and agents to celebrate the 25th anniversary ...

Vintage Persian Baktiari Oriental rug, Small size A vintage Baktiari oriental rug, size 8'2" x 5'5", circa 1940. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a central medallio...

Copy of an Impressionist portrait painting titled "Self Portrait 1887"

A very old tribal storage bag - opened and professionally mounted - with exemplary colors. For the connoisseur. Despite the obvious wear, the piece is essentially complete. Ready for...

Traditional Jewel Toned Oversize signed Persian Kashan Rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. size 10' 3" x 17' 5" (312 x 531 cm) .

Antique Map of Italy by Andriveau-Goujon, 1843. Map of Italy in two parts by Andriveau-Goujon for the Library of Prince Carini at Palazzo Carini i...

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...

Antique Persian Heriz Karaja Oriental rug, in room size. An antique Persian Heriz Karaja oriental rug, size 6'3" x 5'0", c...

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...

1950s Persian Kashan one-of-a-kind rug woven by Nezam Afsari depicting a Nude Marilyn Monroe on a ruby red field. Measures: 3'7'' x 3'11''.  

Striking Rya made with a high-quality handmade Rya weaving technique. To be used as a floor rug or a decorative wall hanging. In perfect condition, ready to hang. Sweden, circa 1960.

Copy of French impressionist painting titled "Madame Monet and Her Son" showing a mother and son on a grassy knoll

Late 19th Century Turkish Sivas Prayer rug with classic Mihrab Prayer Niche motif. The finest of qualities, for the rug connoisseur. Warm Peach and gold are the dominant colors M...

Gilt framed oil painting portrait of man in brown suit and red tie.

Abstract Square size Persian kilim from the late 20th century depicting a pigeon within an elephants face Measures: 3'5'' x 4'2''. This was originally belonging to a private Persia...

Italian (19th Century) oil painting of 2 classically dressed women in front of a fountain of a dolphin by the ocean in a carved ornate giltwood frame titled: "A Musical Interlude" (s...

A Brussels historical tapestry from the late 16th century, featuring several armed figures in the foreground about to engage in battle, as other figures on horseback draw closer from the distance; within a wooded forest setting. Wool with silk inlay. Measures: 8’0” H x 5’7” W. Hanging: The tapestry comes ready for hanging, with linen backing and a strip of hook and loop tape at the top end, which can be connected to the opposite side of the supplied hook and loop tape, which could be tacked to your wall. For those who prefer the use of a tapestry rod...

Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...

Beautiful water scene by French painter Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez (1865 – 1933). This reproduction holds his brush strokes and command of color. Set in a painted wood frame,...

Oil on panel by acclaimed outsider artist, Bruno Del Favero (b. Italy 1910, d. USA 1995), circa 1970. Fine example showcasing Del Favero's aptitude for cre...

Sophisticated flower power for those who love a chic, feminine print! Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message us to pur...

You can see her work in the permanent collections of The Whitney, The Tate and MoMA. And now, you can hang this powerful photographs on the walls of your own home. Valerie in the t...

Copy of an abstract portrait painting titled "Jeune Femme Rousse" showing a girl with red hair on a green background.

Antique French Aubusson Rug, Runner size, circa 1890 A one-of-a-kind antique French Aubusson Carpet, hand-knotted with soft wool pile. This lovely hand-knotted wool carpet features ...

Copy of a still life painting titled "Bouquet" showing red, yellow and white flowers in a glass vase Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

Copy of a dog portrait titled "A Deerhound In a Landscape" showing a hound in a classical landscape

A late 19th century Caucasian Kazak rug stitched onto a light blue Turkish Kilim.

As part of Marimekko's ongoing efforts to promote the brand worldwide, this piece is from a line of posters sent to distributors, press, and agents to celebrate the 25th anniversary ...

Copy of an impressionist painting titled "Fort Vimieux" showing a ship aground

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...

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

Charcoal abstract of geometric forms on paper (1959 signed: MICHAEL LOEW).      Though the painter Michael Loew is today best known for his colorful and gestural Abstract Expression...

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

A fine antique Persian Senneh mini-size rug from the 1st quarter of the 20th century Measure: 1'11'' x 2'8'' circa 1920 Antique Senneh rugs are one of the most distinctive of all Persian rugs...

The launch of the newest diptych print titled "Bois de Boulogne" is part of our mission for the preservation and celebration of historical French artistry. Designed in the style of a classic French panorama, known as "Papier Peint," these exquisite prints capture the lush and detailed expanse of the Bois de Boulogne park, a beloved Parisian landscape. Each panel is a meticulous amalgamation of past and present art techniques, featuring elaborate woodland scenes that blend seamlessly across the two sections. The archival quality and limited edition of the prints ensure that the gorgeous tones and intricate details are preserved, offering an enduring glimpse into France's artistic heritage. This release not only pays homage to traditional French scenic...

A Flemish pastoral landscape tapestry panel from the 17th century, depicting a young swain leading his flock by playing a bagpipe in a verdant woodland area before bushes and a large...

Authentic 18th-century tapestry 5'4'' x 6'9''.

Painting. Acrylic on canvas by Gerard Economos (French,1935-) Gerard Economos is known for his passionate, intensely colored abstract compositions and large acrylic paintings that have been performed live in front of audiences in 12 countries. Economos has had over 88 events over the last 57 years and his work is now in collections in over 34 countries. He started Live Performances with the Greek avante-garde composer and architect, Iannis Xenakis during a Sound Festival; Subsequently he developed the "Une Musique a Voir" (A music to see) concept. 'La Cuisine aux Fleurs' (Cooking with Flowers) was a series of paintings initiated at the request of the renowned French Chef, Raymond Oliver in 1975 who wished to have his recipes illustrated. They have been rarely shown in public. For an illustrated 15 page biography of Economos please contact Thomas Gallery Ltd...

Walnut framed photograph of 19th Century genre scene of men drinking and playing musical instruments. (Companion Pieces: 052554B-E)

Pair of American Folk Art (19th Century) mahogany and birdseye maple framed oil painting portraits of man with paper and lady with book (signed).  

Ebonized framed oil painting portrait of young boy holding book

An early 20th century Souf carpet woven somewhere in Iran. Whereabouts are unknown but we suspect it’s from the sarouk Jozan region. 2'1'' x 2'7'' Souf r...

One of the most important contemporary French painters is Luciano Di Concetto whose stylized work is becoming famous worldwide. His work displays contrasts of light and dark, richne...

An early 20th century wool Turkish Sivas mat square size rug with a double scroll column prayer motif on a brick color field, circa 1900. Measures: 2'2" x 2'8".

A French Aubusson Rustic tapestry from the late 19th century after an original painting by the French painter François Boucher (1703-1770), 'The Cherry Picking'. This theme was succe...

This lithograph is signed twice and numbered by the artist. Features an antelope in laying position with white mat and wood frame. Please confirm location NY or NJ

A French tapestry from the end of the 17th century, incorporating verdure and rustic elements, with a romantic scene on the foreground of two young men pulling a young girl's swing. The scene takes place in a woodland environment, with trees in the foreground. Enclosed within a trompe l'oeil border, decorated with head flowers. Wool with silk inlay. Hanging: The tapestry comes ready for hanging, with linen backing and a strip of hook and loop tape at the top end, which can be connected to the opposite side of the supplied hook and loop tape, which could be tacked to your wall. For those who prefer the use of a tapestry rod, we can add the appropriate size loops to accommodate your needs. We now have a large selection of antique tapestry rods available as well, which we can provide detail upon request. Associated Words and Descriptions: accessory, antique, antiques, antique rug, antique carpet, antique tapestry, carpet, carpets, cleaning, classic oriental rugs, collectibles, collector items, collector piece, decor, decorative accessory, decorative item, decorative rug, decorator, design, designer, europe, european, farsh, fine, fine antique decorative rugs and carpets, floor covering, floral, geometric, ghali, hali, hand knotted, hand made, hand woven, home decor, home design, interior decor, interior decorator, interior design, interior designer, iran, iranian carpets...

Antique French Aubusson panel, circa 1850, 2'3 x 11'2. This antique Aubusson panel may be used as a runner on the floor or as a wall decoration over a door or between windows or a table runner. The nearly black field displays a very complex pattern of multi colored palmettes flowers and various short vines. An ivory floral border on the left contrasts with the geometric right hand band...

“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...

Accent size pictorial Turkish Sivas carpet from the first quarter of the 20th century. The gray field with a flurry of wild and exotic animals, accents in beige and crimson red. A co...

Vintage (20th Century) oil painting of a six-person crew rowing out to sea in a boat on rectangular, unframed canvas.

The Ford, by Thomas Creswick (1811-1869). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated.

A double-sided laminated sheet showcasing Laurie Rosenwald’s 1980s postmodern graphic work for Issey Miyake. This example was taken from an issue of Vogue. Rosenwald is an accomplish...

Italian Venetian (19/20th Cent) gilt framed oil seascape painting of canal with red sailboat

Contemporary modern Murano Art glass sculpture, a decorative panel displayed on a dark gray iron base, realized as a colorful Mosaic, gray, yellow, burgundy, white and black murrine, aqua blue, amethyst purple glass...