Antique White Side Table Small Writing Table With 3 Drawers, Sweden circa 1880

Pair, small Swedish country Gustavian style white painted nightstands or small cabinets standing on block feet. Traditional diamond motif on doors and drawers, simple fluted carving ...

Antique Swedish Gustavian gray painted pine "partner's desk" with two drawers on each side of the table and traditional tapered fluted legs. The painted finish shows layers of light ...

It is the slight bombay curves and feet turning gently outwards that draws one to this charming chest of drawers. Restored, later professionally painted in layered shades of pale yel...

Small pine side table with tray top resting on trestle X base, great to serve as a bar table for drinks. Restored, strong and stable, this table is ready to be used and enjoyed. Wax ...

Antique Liegoise writing table with 2 drawers is a splendid example of the time-honored traditions of quality craftsmanship for which the region is so well known for the past centuri...

French Art Deco writing table or desk with two side drawers, maple parquet top, rounded (subtly octagonal) oak legs with elegant feet, in...

Beautiful "Japonisme" writing table opening with a belt drawer with engraved decoration of bamboo and flowers and decorated with openwork leafy friezes in bronze, forming a writing tablet covered in velvet. It rests on four feet mounted at the corners of lion masks in gilded bronze and joined by an openwork spacer, and ending in lion paws. It is topped with a molded Griotte marble. Biography : Gabriel Viardot (1830-1906) career began as a wood carver and he produced small furniture, sculpturally carved with naturalistic motifs and animals. In the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, his finely sculpted objects were well received. However, with the increasing importation of similarly produced Swiss and German articles, he found less opportunity for these and decided to inovate. G. Viardot succeded to his father’s business in 1861 installed rue Rambuteau in Paris. Around 1870 he turned to the idea of producing « Meubles genre Chinois et Japonais ». The taste in Europe for exotic furniture...

A beautiful and elegant antique writing / side table. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1920’s. It is of extremely fine quality with a gorgeous and useful design. T...