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Mid-Century Modern, and Contemporary furniture
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Mid-Century Art and Design
The finest mid-century design tables, desks, chairs, accessories and art
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Italian made mahogany center table. The rosewood veneered top is surmounted by four 'T' shaped mahogany brackets, supporting a glass top.
Circa 1955
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Oak, walnut and vellum sideboard of large size. The oak upper section with three inset vellum covered doors, with gilt brass key closures. The upper section is supported by gilt brass balls, surmounting a platform base in walnut.
Attributable to Eugene Printz, 1879-1948
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A limited edition bronze and marble side table by Parisian designer Franck Evennou. The table is stamped 'F.E. 1996, 1/8, Lopes de Sousa Eric, Paris, Bronzier D'Art'.
Late 20th century
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American made Art Deco period walnut centre table, the top radially veneered in alternating veneers of zebrawood and burl amboyna.
Circa 1930
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Chinese wooden trade sign. The characters from right to left mean 'honesty', 'enable' and 'style'.
19th century
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French rosewood double sided desk of an ample size, in the manner of Mercier Chaleyssin. With chrome pulls to one side, the opposite with inset book and bibelot shelves.
Circa 1935
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French ceramic inset tile low table from Atelier Capron.
Roger Capron, born in 1922, has produced some of the most innovative ceramic designs of the 20th century. His work includes a massive mural at the entrance to the Gare Maritime in Cannes.
Design circa 1950, produced late 1960's
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A set of 8 Art Deco period cream leather and black painted club chairs, designed by Elsie de Wolfe for the Beverly Hills home of Dorothy, the Countess di Frasso.
Circa 1935
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A pair of chairs designed by Jens Quistgaard for Nissen Langra, Denmark. The solid rosewood segments fixed in chromium plated steel mounts, with sling cushion seats and pivoting backrests upholstered in olive-green suede. Marked with the factory mark.
Circa 1960
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A pair of low stools to a usonian design in the manner of Frank Lloyd Wright. Mahogany plywood with loose cushion.
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Victorian Arts and Crafts movement oak open armchair with a rush drop in seat. To a design by Richard Norman Shaw, it was retailed through William Morris and Company. A chair of this design is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Circa 1880
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Japanese red lacquer and brass mounted palanquin chair. The horseshoe top rail with scroll terminals and suspending a curved backsplat with ruyi head-pierced panels bracketing a central gilt-painted diaper-patterned panel, all above a maroon colored leather seat and supported on pivoted crossed stretchers.
Late Edo period, circa 1850
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Venetian mirrored glass bureau cabinet of neo-rococo design. The double doors open to reveal glass display shelves that are electrically lighted from the top.
Circa 1925
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Art Deco macassar ebony and gilt iron wall-mounted console table, attributable to Gilbert Poillerat (1902-1988).
French, circa 1930
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Giltwood convex mirror. The carved and gilt rays containing marginal mirror plate, all surrounding an oval convex mirror.
Probably Italian, circa 1950
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Sesame, a wall-mounted fall-front desk. The black varnished front opening to reveal a leather writing surface and a sycamore interior with shelves and pidgeon-holes.
Circa 1980
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Chinese painted silk screen, described as ‘100 Children’. This motif, depicting attitudes of a happy and carefree childhood is supposed to impart happiness to the viewer.
Mid 20th century
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A gilt brass and Formica four paneled screen by Felix Kelly, each panel printed with London landmarks, including Mansion House, Cleopatra's Needle, the Tower of London, and Big Ben.
Circa 1960
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Neapolitan carrara marble bath, in the antique taste. The sides writhen carved, with the coat of arms of Castile on one side, carved ring handles to the reverse.
Circa 1800
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Floral Still Life, 1956. A member of the Bloomsbury Group along with Roger Fry and Virginia Woolf, Grant was earlier known for anatomical studies and painted objects created for the Omega Workshops. This still life was painted at Charleston, the Sussex home he shared with Vanessa Bell, and originally exhibited at the Mayor Gallery, London, in 1958.
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Andre Bicat (1909-1996), The Band, 1965. Bicat was born in England of a French father and English mother. His varied career included set design in New York for Orson Welles' Mercury Theater in the 1930's. After the war, he showed regularly at the Royal Academy, Redfern, Leicester, and Leger Galleries. In later life, he was a tutor at the Royal College of Art. Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the Order of the British Empire in 1974.
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Glyn Philpot, RA. (1884-1937),
Angels Dancing in a Drop of Water, mid-1930's. This marks a late work in Philpot's career, by which time he concentrated on genre and allegorical paintings. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1923, and was also a trustee for the Tate Gallery, which holds a number of his works in its permanent collection.
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