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Mystery Chair – Late Classical or Nouveau?

August 5, 2009

Here’s an intriguing mystery chair for you which is in the middle of disagreement on it’s age.  This isn’t a casual situation where a curious chair owner would like to know, but a case where the chair is being offered to a museum and two book authors disagree on the timeframe of it’s manufacture.  Here [...]

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Carlo Bugatti – A Century Ahead Of His Time

May 1, 2009

Carlo Bugatti’s Art Nouveau furniture designs look more like they were designed for Batman’s home than for the homes of the turn of the 19th century when they were made (the firescreen above was is circa 1900).  Paul Tucker tells me that indeed Bruce Wayne’s bedroom furniture in one of the recent Batman movies was [...]

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