This gorgeous bar-set is made using the traditional Japanese Urushi laquer process.  It includes 6 stemmed cups, a tray and martini shaker.  It is handpainted with inlaid abalone in the tray.

Urushi comes from "sap that is tapped from the trunk of the Lacquer Tree to produce lacquer. This is done by cutting the trunk of a 10 year old tree horizontally 5-10 times, and then collecting the greyish yellow sap that exudes. The sap is then filtered, heat-treated, or coloured before applying onto a base material that is to be lacquered.  Artistic application and decoration of urushi can be a long process, requiring many hours or days of careful and repetitive layers and drying times. The creation of a single piece of urushi art, such as a bowl or a fountain pen, may take weeks to months to complete."

 

We just received a unique set of Rococo bedroom furniture.  The set includes the above dresser and dressing table with mirror, and stacking chest of drawers.  The carving is exquisite. 

"Rococo is also referred to as "Late Baroque" and is an 18th century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly more ornate, florid, and playful. Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings."

 

 

This classic Mid-century dining room set is a must see! 

 

We just got a wonderful pair of Mid-century Modern dressers with glass tops.  In great condition!

 

This is a Mamiya Super 23 camera with lens and film holder.  It's styled like a classic journalist's camera.  We have lots of vintage camera's and assorted pieces of camera equipment.

 

This copper vase was made by the coppersmiths from Santa Clara del Cobre in Mexico.  It was hand formed, starting with a thick disk of copper that is laboriously hammered thinner and raised into a vase form.  The process gives the finished product a wonderful patina.  It is approximately 16" high.

  

  

William Conrad Severson (1924-1999) was a St. Louis area sculptor who earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University in 1951.  He moved to St. Louis in 1952 where he established a studio with sculptor Saunders Schultz.  For the next 40 years he made commissions for corporate, institutional and church clientele in a wide range of materials and styles. 

In 1964 he co-founded and was the first president for the St. Louis Sculptors’ Gallery. That same year he was invited to exhibit in the Missouri Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair.  In 1985 he received an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Susquehanna University. 

Severson’s public work can be seen in numerous locations around the St. Louis region including Oak Knoll Park in Clayton, The National Shrine for Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Illinois, and the Mercantile Tower in Downtown St. Louis, as well as in 28 states and three countries.

According to a 1991 catalog of Severson’s work by George McCue, “Severson’s art is art of big structures, variously exploiting light, sound, texture, interaction with its setting, water action, movement and solar power.  He favors forms that do not interpose bulk and mass into his spaces, but are open, translucent, and often active.”

The Missouri Botanical Garden received the donation of this 6’ wide by 5’6” tall painted, polychromed, steel sculpture by Severson from a Garden supporter’s private residence last year. 

The Little Shop Around the Corner is selling it for $15,000 (Garden members may receive an additional 10% discount)

The sculpture includes a base for fastening it securely to the ground.

  

Vintage dining set designed by famous American furniture designer Paul McCobb (from the Irwin Collection for Calvin). 

McCobb's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Merchandise Mart in Chicago.  We have a 54" x 40" dining table with 2 12" leaves, 6 chairs and a matching buffett.