Signature and Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, in origianl carved wooden frame, H:18 3/4" W:14.5" Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement. He became the youngest President in United States history at the age of 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and sold... Click for details

Pair of Amber Bubble Glass Hurricane Shades, H:9" D:3.5" LifestyleAntiques.com is the web site where one can shop on line or if you are in the area we are an antique dealer in Summerland, California just 3 minutes south of Santa Barbara. Specializing in European antique furniture and our accent is antique lighting for your home, or office with handmade parchment shades adorning the selection of unique lamps. We specialize in Decorative Arts and French furniture as well as antique furniture fro... Click for details

Diminutive Pair of Rose Pink Marble Lamps with Gilt Bronze details of the engaged columns and on the Urn itself, very well detaied. Illustrated in the images of the Urn resting on a footed plinth with a wooden base, and the shades are of a color to compliment the Marble coloration and with a little gilt decoration on the handmade parchment shade. H:22.5' to top of finial, H: 8 3/4" of the shade itself, W:12 1/4" of the shade. The word "marble" derives from the Greek marmaros, "shining stone" Marb... Click for details

Decorative and very collectible Aunt Jermina Cast Iron Door Stop, Circa 1900. H:12" LifestyleAntiques.com is the web site where one can shop on line or if you are in the area we are an antique dealer in Summerland, California just 3 minutes south of Santa Barbara. Specializing in European antique furniture and our accent is antique lighting for your home, or office with handmade parchment shades adorning the selection of unique lamps. We specialize in Decorative Arts and French furniture as wel... Click for details

Late 17th to Early 18th Century Italian Marble Top Baroque Style Walnut Cabinet with carved corbels and freize drawer over two paneled cabinet doors, flanked by leaf carving. The cabinet rests on a pedestal base of carved dog figural legs, with paneled back and sides, of minor restoration and a replaced marble top. H:40.5" W:39 1/4" D:16.5" Though it was in Italian architecture, painting, and sculpture that the Baroque style was evolved, Italy was not the first to apply this style to furniture. B... Click for details

19th Century Italian Baroque Style Console Table with inlaid walnut, the pullout writing slide over a single drawer, dovetailed frame with applied moldings and carved fluid design cross stretcher, with minor restoration. H:30.5" W:34" D:15.5" Though it was in Italian architecture, painting, and sculpture that the Baroque style was evolved, Italy was not the first to apply this style to furniture. But by the mid-17th century Italy was producing flamboyantly carved, painted, and gilded furniture... Click for details

Decorative 19th Century Italian Baroque Walnut Side Table, with a single board top and a carved trestle form base with paw feet and minor restoration. H:23.5" W:29 1/4" D:17 3/4" Though it was in Italian architecture, painting, and sculpture that the Baroque style was evolved, Italy was not the first to apply this style to furniture. But by the mid-17th century Italy was producing flamboyantly carved, painted, and gilded furniture, decorated with such typical motifs as cupids, acanthus, shells, ... Click for details

Exceptional 19th Century Italian Baroque Walnut Side Table with a single drawer, a carved trestle form base terminated on paw feet, with minor restoration. H:25" W:30" D:18" A brief history of the Baroque style and tradition: earliest manifestations, which occurred in Italy, date from the latter decades of the 16th century, the work that distinguishes the Baroque period is stylistically unique. In general, however, the desire to evoke emotional states by appealing to the senses, often in dramati... Click for details

Decorative late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Style Cabinet with four drawers of Burl Veneered fronts flanked by mask and acanthus leaf carving on a molded base.H:36" W:30" D:13 3/4" A further description of Italian antique furniture: From the beginning of the Renaissance in the early 15th century, there were changes in furniture forms that were to spread over Europe. The growth of a wealthy and powerful bourgeoisie caused the building of more substantial houses and a demand for good furni... Click for details

Late 19th Century Beaux Arts Cushion Mirror, rocalle and guilloche crest over divided cushion form mirror plate with barley twist and beaded stiles. H:69" W:41 1/2" D:3 1/2" From the late 17th century onward, mirrors—and their frames—played an increasingly important part in the decoration of rooms. The early frames were usually of ivory, silver, ebony, or tortoise shell or were veneered with marquetry of walnut, olive, and laburnum. Needlework and bead frames were also to be found. On the who... Click for details

19th Century Italian Baroque Style Carved Walnut Cassone, with a hinged top, egg and dart paneled sides with heriboned and swagged garlands centered by a shield catouche on canted paw feet. H:22' W:5' D:21" A further description of Italian antique furniture: From the beginning of the Renaissance in the early 15th century, there were changes in furniture forms that were to spread over Europe. The growth of a wealthy and powerful bourgeoisie caused the building of more substantial houses and a dem... Click for details

Set of Six Antique Louis XVI Style Gris Peinte and Caned side Chairs with arched backs, rounded seats and fluted legs. H: 39" Seat H:18" Widest part of Seat:17 1/2" Louis XVI style, also spelled Louis Seize, refers to the visual arts produced in France during the reign (1774–93) of Louis XVI, which was actually both a last phase of Rococo and a first phase of Neoclassicism. The predominant style in architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts was Neoclassicism, a style that had co... Click for details