Thursday, March 15, 2012

Art Nouveau furniture

As I was going through the boxes of Christie's and Sotheby's auction catalogs I recently snagged, I found this great ceramic fireplace. It was listed in Christie's London sale from Nov 1999 as "Celadon green overglazed with sang de boeuf red, decorated in relief with fronds and blossoms... Designed by Emile Mueller and signed in relief..." The estimated selling price was $20,000- 29,000.
This brought to mind the old tv show where the crew took an expensive decorator designed room and brought it to life for the customer at like $4,000.
Just my luck I like the expensive stuff!




These next photos were taken at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris from the art nouveau collection. I think they would look great with the fireplace!

Here's a photo of what I can afford: a pix of my booth at the Livingston Antique Outlet in Howell Mi exit 133 from I-96 on Burkhart Rd.