Tommi Parzinger | Key creator of the Hollywood Regency look

Tommi Parzinger Credenza


Tommi Parzinger was a German furniture designer and painter, known for high-styled modernism.  He’s considered one of the key creators of the Hollywood Regency look and many of his pieces were commissions or custom-built for discerning clientele.  To this day, his designs are stylish, versatile and incredibly au courant.  This Studded Console is an all original, khaki lacquer piece set with bronze studs and solid brass hardware on a solid walnut base. With an inset two-piece white glass top, four doors open to reveal a felt-lined divided drawer and three adjustable shelves on the inside.

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Venture back in time with this Brass Cigarette Holder, it is rarely seen and considered highly collectible, even in today’s non-smoking environment.

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Percival Lafer | Brazilian Modernist Furniture Designer

After concluding his degree in Architecture at the Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Percival Lafer took over his father’s furniture company The Lafer Co.

Pervical Lafer Lounge Chairs

His motto, since day one, was innovation. Every design should reflect state-of-the-art technologies applied to innovative ideas. Contemporary designs intended for the mass market; every design should be different and original, therefore patented.

Pervical Lafer Coffee Table

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Kem Weber | The Mid-Century Modern Designer Who Paved the Way for IKEA

Like almost all the modernists in Los Angeles in the 1920s, Kem Weber was a transplant to the city. He was born Karl Emanuel Martin Weber (in his twenties, he began using his initials as his first name) in Berlin in 1889. After serving as an apprentice cabinetmaker in his teens, he studied architecture and interior design with Bruno Paul at the School of Applied Arts (Kunstgewerbeschule) in Berlin and later worked in Paul’s architectural office.

Kem Weber Airline Chair

In the early summer of 1914, he traveled to San Francisco to supervise the building of the German Pavilion for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, but when the war erupted in Europe in August, he found himself stranded in the United States. Seeing greater opportunity in the New World, Weber stayed in the United States after the war ended, later becoming a U. S. citizen in 1924.

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Gaetano Pesce | Italian Designer and architect – Italian Modern

Gaetano Pesce chair

Born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1939, Gaetano Pesce studied Architecture at the University of Venice between 1958 to 1963 and was a participant in Gruppo N, an early collective concerned with programmed art patterned after the Bauhaus.  In the “Nobody’s Royal” queen armchair made by Zerodesegno. A unique piece signed and dated. The body is composed of three panels handmade of polyurethane resins held together with black nylon pins.

Gaetano Pesce Nobody's Perfect Multi-Color Resin Sideboard

Nobody is perfect, very unique piece on this collection of antiques.

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Industrial designer Called “the maker of good things” Eva Zeisel

Eva Zeisel Town and Country Salt and Pepper shakers

Eva Zeisel (Nov 1906-Dec 2011), called a “maker of good things”, was an American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics. Her designs are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships.  These Red Wing Town and Country Salt and Pepper shakers show her creativity.

Eva Zeisel Coffee Table

Her elegant, eccentric designs in the 1940s and ‘50s helped to revolutionize the way Americans decorate their homes.

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