Switzerland - Vanities

1920thies birch with cubistic carved flowers vanity , console or writing desk with 2 large and 2 small drawers and flexible mirror

Art Deco dressing or writing table kidney shape with drawers.

Mid-Century Modern small dressing table or desk with 2 drawers and mirror. Chrome frame partly black painted.

Lovely petite early 20th century vanity make up table that needs some light restoration. The furniture of the Louis XV period (1715-1774) is characterized by curved forms, lightness, comfort and asymmetry; it replaced the more formal, boxlike and massive furniture of the Style Louis XIV. It employed marquetry, using inlays of exotic woods of different colors, as well as ivory and mother of pearl. The style had three distinct periods. During the early years (1715-1730), called the Regency, when the King was too young to rule, furniture followed the massive, geometric Style Louis XIV style. From 1730 until about 1750, the period known as the first style, it was much more asymmetrical, ornate and exuberant, in the fashion called rocaille. From about 1750 to the King's death in 1774, a reaction set in against the excesses of the rocaille. The Second Style of Louis XV showed the influences of neo-classicism, based on recent archeological discoveries in Italy and Greece. it featured Roman and Greek motifs. The later furniture false eatured decorative elements of Chinoiserie and other exotic styles. Louis XV furniture was designed not for the vast palace state rooms of the Versailles of Louis XIV, but for the smaller, more intimate salons created by Louis XV and by his mistresses, Madame...

Dresser with open-top stowaway, designed by Ico & Luisa Parisi for Altamira in 1942. The table-top was realized in enameled copper by Paolo de Poli based on the designs of Pietro Zu...