Early 20th Century Vitrines

Louis XVI style marble and ormolu bronze mounted mahogany vitrine display table with mirrored interior , supported by four tapering legs . The vitrine is in great condition . Minor w...

This French figural bronze mounted collector’s cabinet vitrine in the manner of Adam Weisweiler is an exceptional example of late 19th to early 20th ce...

This 1900s Belgian industrial wooden vitrine blends utilitarian design with timeless character. Crafted with a simple rectangular form and paneled glass doors, it showcases natural w...

A French 19th-20th century Baroque Revival carved oak Bombé figural vitrine. The single front-door display cabinet with bowed front and side beveled glass panels, with two interior g...

Typical Tuscan showcase, rustic Italian, in fir, consisting of base and riser. Honey color. In ancient times the piece of furniture had been painted green and about 30 years ago it w...

Meuble de métier de médecin en chêne massif 1900's

A stunning pair of Edwardian mahogany display cases line inlaid throughout. The shaped and moulded cornice supported above single astragal glaze...

With drawings of monkeys and leaves Year: 1920 Country: French iron and wood It is an elegant and sophisticated bookcase. You want to live in the golden years, this is the bookcase t...

A very fine French Louis XVI style Belle Époque gilt bronze and carved verde green and parcel-gilt exhibition vitrine display cabinet with side doors, circa 1900, Paris. Measures:...

Spectacular antique demilune vitrine cabinet stands for Grand Rapids Furniture, from Grand Rapids, Michigan a historically significant center for furniture manufacturing in the Unite...

Year: 1920 Country: French Wood and mirror We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposa...

A French vitrine cabinet with glass door and sides, in walnut with rosewood and tulipwood, top with a grey marble top. The ormolu mounts give the cabinet the Louis XV styling tha...

Edwardian Fry’s Counter Top Shop Display Cabinet This Sweet Shop Cabinet has advertising banners for Fry’s painted across the top and bottom at the front, this is in the original Gr...

This antique French vitrine is presumed to have been made in the Edwardian time period and is intricately inlaid with various fruitwood panels, ...

This 1900s French faux bamboo vitrine reflects the period’s fascination with natural forms and decorative craftsmanship. Constructed from solid wood and carved to imitate bamboo pole...

Incredible Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty Material: silver plated Country: German We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles since 1982.If you have an...

A stunning French mahogany Empire style vitrine with classical gilded ormolu scrolling mounts, glass shelves, a flamed mahogany panel beneath with a shelf and raised on classical car...

Art and craft oak cabinet with dark brown finish (nearly black). Double doors on the front with beveled stained glass. Many beautiful brass details. Large drawer, one key and four sh...

Eccentric Italian futurist showcase cabinet from the 20's. The cabinet has applications inserted later, such as skull-shaped designs and designs on the sides of the cabinet in the sh...

A stunning pair of French Louis XV style grand vitrines in the manner of Vernis Martin, circa 1900. Decorated with flame mahogany veneers, the vitrines are richly trimmed with gilt b...

Beautiful 20th century French mahogany Empire style vitrine from the 1920s. This vitrine has a music scores compartments. Brass net finish. Brass hooves...

This is a Louis XVI style large rectangular shaped gilt wood vitrine/curio cabinet. It has a front door with a glass that closes with a key. The curio cabine...

Vanity Veneered With Karelian Birch With Oval Mirror From the Early 20th Century Vanity with an oval, tilting mirror, veneered with Karelian birch, dating back to the early 20th cen...

A fine French 19th-20th century kingwood and tulipwood marquetry and gilt-bronze mounted vitrine, in the manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The slender single door display cabinet with a red-velvet backing and bowed glass panels surmounted with acanthus and floral gilt-bronze mounts in the style of Léon Messagé (French, 1842-1901), the serpentine shaped front door with an ornate marquetry and ink colored panel depicting wreaths, ribbons and tied acantus leaves, all raised on four cabriolet legs ending with gilt-bronze paw-feet, Paris, circa 1900. Linke was born on 17 June 1855 in the small village of Pankraz, in what is now the Czech Republic. Records show that Linke served an apprenticeship with the master cabinet maker, Neumann, which he completed in 1877. Linke’s work book or Arbeits-Buch records that he was in Vienna from July 1872 to October 1873 at the time of the International Exhibition held there in 1873. He subsequently travelled to Prague, Budapest & Weimar before finally arriving in Paris in 1875. It is documented that he obtained employment with an unknown German cabinetmaker in Paris, and stylistic similarities, photographs and geographical proximity have led some to suggest that Emmanuel Zwiener was the most likely candidate. After a period back in his home town of Pankratz, he returned once and for all to Paris in 1877. In 1878 Paris hosted the third great International Exhibition, a remarkable success for a country ravaged by war only seven years earlier. It is known that the fledgling Linke workshops were active in the Faubourg St. Antoine as early as 1881, during this time he supplied furniture for other more established makers such as Jansen and Krieger. By 1889 another World’s Fair, as they were often referred to in America, took place in Paris. Monsieur Eiffel erected what has become the most iconic building in Paris for the exhibition and the atmosphere of wealth and confidence may well have encouraged Linke to think that he could contribute an important part to the next great exhibition. As early as 1892 this was decreed to take place at the end of the century, in an attempt to pre-empt Berlin from staging the last great show of the century. In 1892, Victor Champier (fr) one of the commissioners for the 1900 Paris Fair had appealed, “Create in the manner of the masters, do not copy what they have made”. It was an appeal against mere reproduction and Linke rose to this challenge in an unparalleled way with his unique display that was to include the Grand Bureau. Determined to outshine the competition at the Exhibition, Linke had set about creating the most ambitious pieces he could envisage, and more extravagant than had ever been displayed before. The items he exhibited marked a transition from the historicist interpretation of Louis XV and Louis XVI styles, an interpretation that was the mainstay of his nearest rivals, to something startlingly new and vital in its immediacy. [6] Together with Léon Messagé he developed a new style for the 1900 Exhibition that paid homage to the Louis XV rococo in the fluidity of its approach, but an approach fused with the lively flowing lines of the contemporary and progressive 'art nouveau'. The Art Journal reported in 1900 on Linke's stand: "The work of M. Linke ... was an example of what can be done by seeking inspiration amongst the classic examples of Louis XV and XVI without in any great sense copying these great works. M. Linke's work was original in the true sense of the word, and as such commended itself to the intelligent seeker after the really artistic things of the Exhibition. Wonderful talent was employed in producing the magnificent pieces of furniture displayed". Linke's stand would have appeared refreshingly new to contemporary onlookers, the traditional designs of the eighteenth century melting seamlessly into an exuberant naturalism. The 'Revue' described Linke's style as 'entièrement nouveaux' and noted "This opinion is universally accepted. Linke's stand is the biggest show in the history of art furniture in the year 1900". It is perhaps the most extraordinary and remarkable aspect of Linke’s personal history that he produced such expensive and luxurious furniture of exquisite quality for the 1900 exhibition without any commission or any potential buyer in mind. [9] At a time when other more established furniture businesses such as those of Beurdeley and Dasson were closing down, he made a huge investment in his stand and the furniture he supplied for it. Linke recognised that to move his business forward he needed to appeal to a more International clientele and the new emerging rich who were at this time amassing fortunes on an unprecedented scale. For this reason he gambled everything he had on his display for the 1900 exhibition. Had this not succeeded he would almost certainly have succumbed to bankruptcy. Linke’s notebook records visitors to his stand from England, Europe, the Americas, Egypt and Japan and including; the King of Sweden, three visits from the King of Belgium, Prince Radziwill, the Prince d’Arenberg, the Comte Alberic du Chastel, Miss Anna May Gould, the American heiress, distinguished furniture makers and the President of France Emile Loubet. This risky endeavour was a resounding success, and with his reputation established, La Maison Linke became the pre-eminent furniture house until outset of the Second World War. The technical brilliance of his work and the artistic change that it represented was never to be repeated. His showrooms expanded into prestigious premises in Paris, in the Place Vendôme as well as the Faubourg St. Antoine where his workshop had been established. He embarked on many important commissions in the years up to the outbreak of the First World War, making and designing furniture for leading international industrialists and bankers. After the 1914-1918 World War, Linke undertook the extraordinary commission to furnish the Ras al-Tin Palace in Alexandria for King Fuad of Egypt, possibly the largest single furniture commission ever conceived, eclipsing even Versailles. Linke flourished and remained active until the middle years of the 1930s and died in 1946 Léon Messagé (1842-1901) was a French sculptor, best known for his sculptural collaboration with François Linke for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Messagé was also responsible for much of the design and creative work for Roux et Brunet...

A fine and rare English 19th-20th century Chippendale style carved oak and parcel-gilt console vitrine. The narrow upper two-door vitrine crowned with a carved parcel-gilt peacock fe...

Decorative small Art Déco exhibition showcase / vitrine by Maison Siegel, Paris. France 1920s. The Siegel company was famous in the Art Déco Epoch for its very high quality exhibitio...

A Very Fine French 19th-20th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu and Jasperware-Mounted Rosewood, Mahogany and Kingwood Single Door Vitrine, in manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The u...

Imitation palisander Made in Czechoslovakia Made of wood, glass Original condition.

Rare large pair of early XXth century wooden vitrines. Perfect to display collections (jewels, coins, drawings etc..) or menus for a restaurant? Very decorative and rare!

A fine French, 19th-20th century Louis XV style mahogany and gilt bronze-mounted Vitrine by Haentges Freres. The single door cabinet surmounted with or...

Louis XV Style Vitrine with Original Bronzes – 19th Century An elegant Louis XV style display cabinet in marquetry veneer, richly adorned with its original bronze mounts. This two-d...

This exquisite French Louis XVI style gilt wood vitrine, crafted by the esteemed Geo. C. Flint Co. of New York, radiates the elegance and refined taste characteristic of the early 20...

This pair of shop display cabinets were made from pine with faux oak paint The cabinets have glass on all sides and a door with a brass knob on the back.

Pair of unique display cases in Louis XV style, made in tortoiseshell and gilt wood by Maison Franck. Equipped with 3 glass shelves. These cabinets...

A French mahogany vitrine, circa 1900, marble top, the glazed door enclosing a silk-lined interior of three shelves and with glazed cavetto sides, having a central parquetry panel be...

Art Deco vintage side table or vitrine from solid ash and veneer which features octagonal shape. A fantastic show case or display case topped with facet-cut glass. With an original k...

Aluminum sideboard opening with a door on the right and two drawers surmounted by a showcase with two sliding windows on the left. It is made of b...

Introducing the unique custom-made shop window, the 1900 Art Nouveau bar It has been cleaned to the bare veneer, disinfected and hand finished with a high gloss shellac varnish. ...

Mahogany and mahogany veneer window opening with two doors with three glass panels and brass hoops, the uprights with half columns. England, 20th century. Measures: High 178 cm...

Furniture Art Deco Material: wood, mirror and glass Style: Art Deco Country: France We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles since 1982. Art. Deco ...

Rare Thonet display case, Dressoir Thonet n ° 20793 Model from catalog 1904.

Burmese hand-carved Mandalay style Buddha shrine featuring gilded wood, glass panes, and a mirrored back.

Burmese hand-carved Buddha temple shrine featuring gilded wood, glass panes, and a metal repoussé back. Visit our other 1STDIBS storefront Moxie Interiors to shop a vast array of ex...

Incredible Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty Vitrine Country: France We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles since 1982.If you have...

A French Ormolu Mounted Tulip-Wood Vitrine by Francois Linke Circa 1890 Origin: Paris Height: 66.5" (168cm) Width: 34.5" (87cm) Depth: 17" (43cm) Good condition Ind...

It is difficult to sufficiently describe the quality and workmanship of this vitrine; the photos show more than any words can relate. The mounts are to the standard of the great Linke and may prove to be from his own workshop. Those which flank the door are busts of children...

Antique French Provincial Fruitwood Vitrine Cabinet, Circa 1900.

Edwardian satinwood display or bijouterie table with marquetry and stringing, the locking lift top fitted with curved front and back panes, the sides ...

An Exceptional Early 20th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Parquetry Vitrine By François Linke François Linke – Index no. 458 The fleur de pêcher marble top above a scro...

This beautiful display cabinet was crafted by the prestigious furniture company, Maison Krieger. The firm was founded in 1826 by Antoine Krieger. Over the course of the 19th century,...

A gilt-bronze mounted burr amboyna and mahogany vitrine cabinet French, circa 1900 All sides fitted with beveled glass and opening to shelves, Measures: Height 63.25 in. (160.65 c...