C.1900 kitchen farm lamp, used to light, at the start of the century, the long kitchen table. This opaline shade goes up and down, thanks to its counterweight in porcelain.
The best and worst things humanity has to offer can be viewed on the internet. I'd like to think that for every schoolbus bullying video, there's a website filled with objects like those of Jean-Marc Furio's, and it's our job to find the good stuff.
Furio is the French antiques dealer behind The New Collector, an antiques shop based in Bangalow, Australia, a couple hours south of Brisbane. Their specialty is Industrial Art objects from the first half of the 20th Century. Furio has a keen appreciation for the Bauhaus and "we like to think that Gropius would have loved to walk in our shop," as he writes.
Freshly back from a trip to France, The New Collector's website is loaded up with gorgeous objects you could spend all day browsing. Here are some of the recent acquisitions:
Four seat Hazelnut school desk, no metallic nails to hold the base, the nails are in timber. c.1880-1890. The school desk became smaller only two seats after the war, then in metal in the 60s.
Perfuma "made by De Gion." The elegance of the machine age era. Designed to spread a fragrance into a room. Boiling water in the tank near the base released the perfume stored in the top part. C.1925 Italy.
Hat stand press. Circa 1900 France.
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