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Swedish Pewter and Glass Table Lamp
Located in Long Island City, NY
This elegant table lamp emits a warm glow from its mottled white glass shade. With a spare herbaceous design etched on the pewter base.
Rewired for the U.S. with a twisted cloth cord.
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Pewter
Dutch Early 18th Century Rococo Cabinet
Located in Long Island City, NY
We have a weakness for Rococo. The sinuous curves of this organ curved cabinet enlivens a modern space. The workmanship is wonderful: the burr walnut veneer glows, and the ash inlay ...
Category
Antique 18th Century Dutch Rococo Cabinets
Materials
Wood, Ash, Walnut, Glass
Audoux Minet Lounge Chair
By Adrien Audoux and Frida Minnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Adrien Audoux and Frida Minet, contemporaries of Modernist designers Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Chareau among others, designed prolifically in 1940s and 50s. Their aesthetic was r...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Lounge Chairs
Materials
Hemp, Bentwood
Kay Korbing Pair of Pendant Lights
By Kay Korbing
Located in Long Island City, NY
Danish architect and designer, Kay Kørbing, was known for his interior design of the M/S Winston Churchill and M/S Princesse Margrethe in the mid 20th century. This particular design...
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Brass
$5,000 / set
Very Rare Carved Otto Wretling Sofa with Shearling
By Otto Wretling
Located in Long Island City, NY
This three-seat sofa with its hand-carved frame (note the pine needles and pinecones, the stylized elephant toe feet) is rarely available. Our workshop has restored this fine example...
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Sofas
Materials
Fur, Pine
Pleated Silk Sconce or Table Lamp By Eino Schroderus for Taidetakomo Koru
Located in Long Island City, NY
In 1907, Eino Schroderus (1880-1956) founded Taidetakomo Kuro, a metal workshop known for lighting design. Schroderus both designed and manufactured the lighting, working with a vari...
Category
Early 20th Century Finnish Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
George II Carved Giltwood Rococo Mirror
Located in Long Island City, NY
With its foliate scrolls, time-worn gilding, and antique mirror plate, this example is a welcome grace note to a luxurious setting. In very good vintage condition with an older mirro...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Wall Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Giltwood
Swedish Neoclassical Stool
Located in Long Island City, NY
A beautifully balanced neoclassical stool, with remnants of the original paint and recently restored caning. Seat cushion of linen and vintage leather included.
Category
Antique 19th Century Swedish Neoclassical Stools
Materials
Cane, Wood, Paint
Vintage Poul Henningsen PH 4.5 Sconces
By Poul Henningsen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Poul Henningsen was not seeking beauty of form in his revolutionary design, but optimal quality of light. Nevertheless, the lamp he created after much trial and error in collaboratio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Copper
$7,200 / set
Early Bruno Mathsson Pernilla Chair and Ottoman
By Bruno Mathsson
Located in Long Island City, NY
An early and beautiful example of Bruno Mathsson’s classic Pernilla lounge chair, recently recovered in plush curly gray shearling.
Chair: 42” long x 21” wide x 31” high (seat heigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Chaise Longues
Materials
Fur, Birch
Rare Pair of Arne Jacobsen "Pre Pop" Chairs
By Arne Jacobsen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Arne Jacobsen was an architect first and foremost. The design of furniture followed organically–Jacobsen, a believer in the ideal of Gesamtkunst, wanted furniture which suited his bu...
Category
Late 20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Chairs
Materials
Plywood
$8,500 / set
Vintage Arne Vodder AV 53 Lounge Chair in Original Leather
By Arne Vodder
Located in Long Island City, NY
A nicely proportioned lounge chair by Arne Vodder, manufactured by Ivan Schlechter in the early 1950s. We love the streamlined profile and the simple decorative detail of the blind t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Leather, Sheepskin, Rosewood
Early Carl Malmsten Writing or Console Table
By Carl Malmsten
Located in Long Island City, NY
Carl Malmsten was one of the most talented and prolific Scandinavian designers of the 20th century. He rejected the dehumanizing elements of Functionalism in favor of a considered ap...
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Birch, Elm, Oak, Burl
Einar Backstrom Desk Lamp in Brass and Leather
By Einar Backstrom
Located in Long Island City, NY
We find the design of this classic table lamp irresistible. With its warm brass shade, unique finial, and tactile leather-wrapped stem, it casts a lovely down light, perfect on a des...
Category
Vintage 1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Gasparini Chiavari Chair
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lovely chair is named for the town in Italy where it was originally designed and fabricated. Its invention dates to 1807, when Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi was commissioned to refr...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Side Chairs
Materials
Rattan, Beech
$3,700
Pair of Nordiska Kompaniet High-Back Lounge Chairs
By NK (Nordiska Kompaniet)
Located in Long Island City, NY
An exceptionally comfortable pair of high-back lounge chairs manufactured in the middle of the 20th century by Sweden’s renowned luxury design retailer, Nordiska Kompaniet. Newly res...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Mahogany
$15,000 / set
18th Century Chinese Export Corner Seat
Located in Long Island City, NY
This very beautiful chair was most likely produced in China for the English or Danish market, and exported via the East India Company. Unusual for work of this era, it still wears it...
Category
Antique 18th Century Chinese Rococo Corner Chairs
Materials
Leather, Giltwood
Guido Gambone Blue Ceramic Lidded Vessel
By Guido Gambone
Located in Long Island City, NY
This ceramic box has a vibrant glaze that cascades over the surface, gathering towards the base to reveal a textured edge. Inside, the box is glazed white, offering a striking contra...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Bruno Gambone Yellow Ceramic Bowl
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Long Island City, NY
With its saturated sunflower yellow and dark-tipped rim, this bowl is a beautiful statement of Gambone’s craft in the 1960s.
Bruno Gambone (b. 1936) began his artistic career early ...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
André Thuret Sculptural Bowl with Violet Inclusions
By André Thuret
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Thuret (1898–1965) was a pioneering French glass artist whose background in science deeply informed his artistic practice. With a degree in Chemistry, Thuret’s fascination with...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass
Young Mi Kim Monumental Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Long Island City, NY
It seems impossible that this extraordinary vessel was made by hand, worked patiently from a lump of clay. It could have emerged from a coral bed, carefully extracted by a deep sea d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Urns
Materials
Ceramic
Ancient Celtic
Killed
Sword
Located in Long Island City, NY
Beginning in the Bronze Age, in much of what is now Europe, there emerged a practice of ritually “killing” weapons and other possessions to be buried with the warrior to whom they ha...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier European Mounted Objects
Materials
Bronze
$14,000
Jacques Adnet Crystal and Bronze Candelabrum for Baccarat
By Baccarat, Jacques Adnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
A four-light crystal and bronze candelabrum designed by Jacques Adnet for Baccarat. The metal surface has a warm patina.
Category
Vintage 1930s French Candelabras
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Märta Måås-Fjetterström "Tornet" Carpet
By Märta Måås-Fjetterström
Located in Long Island City, NY
In 1931, when Carl Malmsten was commissioned to design a number of suites at the Waldorf Astoria, he invited Märta Måås-Fjetterström to New York City to create the carpets. Upon her ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Jean Filhos Coffee Service for Sèvres
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Filhos was trained as an architect and sculptor, but in the 1960s abandoned the first profession to dedicate himself exclusively to the second. He designed a number of works of ...
Category
Late 20th Century French Tableware
Materials
Silver
Jean-Michel Wilmotte for Academy
Attila
Coffee Table
By Jean-Michel Wilmotte
Located in Long Island City, NY
Since founding his architecture firm in 1975, Wilmotte has designed several furniture collections through Académy, his publishing and distribution company. Among his most notable cre...
Category
Late 20th Century French Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
Red Chalk Drawing of a Seated Woman by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Long Island City, NY
This charming drawing is a preliminary study for the larger drawing, Trois etudes de femme assise, coiffee d'une fontange, in the British Museum.
This little gem comes from Brooke A...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century French Rococo Drawings
Materials
Paper
Double-Sided Drawing by Baldassare Franceschini, Called Il Volterrano
By Baldassare Franceschini
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Double-sided Drawing:
Studies of a Man Holding a Horn
Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, and study for an Ecce Homo
Black chalk on buff paper
14 3/4″ high x 10 3/8″ wi...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Baroque Drawings
Materials
Paper
Donald Sultan Three Photographic Studies for Still Lifes
Located in Long Island City, NY
These small, painterly photographs are preparatory studies for Sultan’s much larger still lifes, 8-foot-square compositions which he has described as “heavy structure, holding fragil...
Category
Late 20th Century American Contemporary Art
Kiyoharu Ichino
By Kiyoharu Ichino
Located in Long Island City, NY
Kiyoharu Ichino was born in 1957 in Tachikui from a long line of potters, and his studies commenced as a child. By 1983, he had established his own studio. In 1995, he was nominated ...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
$1,700
Eric Löfman Sterling Silver Coffee Service
By Eric Löfman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A very elegant modern coffee service designed and made by Eric Löfman for MGAB. The hand-hammered forms have a pleasing architectural quality that seems to take its initial inspirat...
Category
Vintage 1970s Swedish Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
$3,800 / set
Lapponia Bracelet and Ring by Björn Weckström
By Bjorn Weckstrom
Located in Long Island City, NY
Weckström is a sculptor whose collaboration with fellow Finn Pekka Anttila resulted in the creation of Lapponia jewelry in 1963. Weckström approached jewelry as wearable art, the o...
Category
20th Century Finnish Scandinavian Modern Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Silver, Bronze
$1,650 / set
Tribal Shelter
Located in Long Island City, NY
A small shelter of woven palm leaves and twine.
Category
20th Century Tribal Art
Materials
Rattan
$2,700
Silver Decanter by Sylvia Stave
By Carl Gustav Hallberg, Sylvia Stave
Located in Long Island City, NY
A beautiful and extremely collectible decanter by the Swedish Sylvia Stave, who designed for C.G. Hallbergs until 1940. She had a brief and lauded career, and created a body of work ...
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Serving Pieces
Materials
Silver Plate
French Mahogany Scroll-Base Table with Stone Top
Located in Long Island City, NY
The scroll base has a muscular elegance which pays homage to the Régence, yet the boldness of the proportions sets it firmly in Art Deco. What draws us to the piece is the expressive...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Quartz
Pair of Danish Modern Lounge Chairs by Poul Thorsbjerg Jensen
By Poul Thorsbjerg Jensen
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of modern lounge chairs with a Minimalist, planar design, recently reupholstered in a soft ivory chenille.
Category
20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Teak
Black Lacquer Chinese-Style Coffee Table with Travertine Top
Located in Long Island City, NY
A black lacquer midcentury coffee table with an elegant Chinese profile. We have recently replaced the top with a painterly piece of travertine. We find the stone to be a worthy obje...
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stone
Franz Köttgen for Kill International Leather Daybed
By Kill International, Franz Köttgen
Located in Long Island City, NY
A simple and wonderful design from the 1960s produced by Kill International, a furniture maker of outstanding quality. Three leather cushions can be removed to form a very comfortabl...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Daybeds
Materials
Steel
Brutalist Sculptural Hammered Copper Center Table
Located in Long Island City, NY
A stunning biomorphic center table. Like much of the best studio furniture of designers like Paul Evans, this marvelous piece has the elemental presence of modern sculpture. From afa...
Category
20th Century Center Tables
Materials
Copper, Steel
Dorothy Dehner Watercolor "Maiden Aunts"
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dorothy Dehner (1901-1994) was one of the most important women artists in the United States in the mid-century American abstraction movement (the MoMa in New York has more than a doz...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Bertel Gardberg Silver Creamer and Sugar Bowl with Tongs
By Bertel Gardberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bertel Gardberg (1916-2007) has been called the father of Finnish Silversmithing. His works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in many importan...
Category
Vintage 1970s Finnish Modern Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Hand Carved Early 19th Century Swedish Trestle Table
Located in Long Island City, NY
This hand carved pine trestle table is a wonderful example of Swedish folk furniture from the Gustavian era. Most remarkably, it includes a rack built to hold the wooden spoons of ea...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Dining Room Tables
Materials
Pine
Large and Unique Commemorative Bowl by Wilhelm Kåge
By Wilhelm Kage
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wilhelm Kåge was trained as a decorative painter and graphic designer. In 1917, he became artistic director of the Gustavsberg porcelain factory, where he remained until 1949. His most successful line was the green-glazed Argenta with its graceful Art Deco silver inlay. The glaze here is the rarer garnet, which offsets the inlaid silver mermaids...
Category
20th Century Swedish Art Deco Serving Bowls
Materials
Silver
"Winter, New York" Photograph by George Krause
By George Krause
Located in Long Island City, NY
This haunting image is from a series titled “Qui Riposa.” Krause writes about this group of photographs:
My father died before my 2nd birthday and I grew up with a pervading sense...
Category
20th Century American Photography
Materials
Paper
Michael Lekakis Watercolor
By Michael Lekakis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Painter and sculptor Michael Lekakis was born in New York City and had his first solo exhibition at the Artists Gallery in 1941. His work can be found in the collections of the Museu...
Category
20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Paper
Large Biomorphic Sculpture by Elisa D
Arrigo
Located in Long Island City, NY
A biomorphic sculpture, "Bud," by Bronx-born artist Elisa D'Arrigo. It has the gravity and presence of an object of natural history: a fossilized dinosaur egg, or a petrified plant s...
Category
20th Century American Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Ceramic Sculpture by Yulia Tsukerman
By Yulia Tsukerman
Located in Long Island City, NY
“We will turn the whole world into a flower garden” is a sculpture composed of seven wheels of different sizes by Yulia Tsukerman, an artist transplanted from Moscow to Tel Aviv. Its...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Israeli Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$7,800 / set
Large French Polychrome Santo with Original Costume
Located in Long Island City, NY
Polychrome liturgical figures such as these were (and still are) carried in procession on saints’ days or other religious festivals. This three-quarter length large, carved wooden sa...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Silk, Linen
Kiki Smith Etching
By Kiki Smith
Located in Long Island City, NY
“Prints mimic what we are as humans. We are all the same and yet everyone is different. I also think there’s a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosari...
Category
Late 20th Century American Prints
Materials
Paper
$9,800
James Turrell Photograph of Roden Crater
By James Turrell
Located in Long Island City, NY
“Roden Crater has knowledge in it and it does something with that knowledge. Environmental events occur; a space lights up. Something happens in there, for a moment, or for a time. I...
Category
Late 20th Century American Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Don Shoemaker Sling Swinger Chair
By Don S. Shoemaker, Senal
Located in Long Island City, NY
A leader of Mexico Modernism, Don Shoemaker created the “Sling” chair in the 1950s and designed variations through the 1960s, including the “Swinger” armchair you see here. Our versi...
Category
Vintage 1960s Mexican Lounge Chairs
Materials
Cocobolo, Granadillo, Leather
