Vintage Broyhill Lacquered Dresser

Every apartment and home needs more storage room, but it's Murphy's Law that we never have enough space! Here's a great Vintage Boyhill Lacquered Dresser we found with antiques industry spokesman George Evans, the entrepreneur behind Bond & Bowery, a great online resource for antiques and fine art.

Design2Share: What do you like about this dresser, George?

George: The sculptural feel to a case piece of furniture is difficult to achieve, especially when it comes to well-priced value pieces like this one. The two-tone color of this dresser is also uncommon,. The white lacquered body and finely-grained walnut door fronts make this an especially attractive piece.

D2S: What would you say is desirable and collectible about the dresser?

George: Form and function rule here. Being 66” long and only 19” deep, this piece offers plenty of storage and adds so much to an interior without taking up the whole room. Broyhill’s design of this piece is America’s answer to Danish modern design; this form resembles the work of Jens Risom.

D2S: Where would you think our readers could decorate with this dresser in the home?

George: I see this piece in many places. The bedroom, of course, as a traditional dresser for storing clothes. It would look great with a pair of Murano lamps on top, and there would still be room for one to spread out other items. This would also be great in the dining room as a server. In a large entrance way or front hall, use it to hold gloves and hats, candles, pet leashes, keys, and other personal items that you want safely stored out of the way. This would be perfect in the living room with a flat screen TV above it  - and the storage space welcomes your collection of DVD and CDs!

This dresser comes from Bond and Bowery dealer Danish Modern LA of Silver Lake, CA. We hope you look into this piece, if only because of its manufacturer. Based in North Carolina, Broyhill Furniture was a pioneer of the use of assembly line techniques, like Henry Ford's automobile plant. Broyhill is a company that has always grown, changed, and remained creative for over a 100 years, offering quality, style, and superb value.

For more info: Go to Bond & Bowery for more info and pricing on this Vintage Broyhill Lacquered Dresser.

Warhol & Stein

Nothing says iconic art like a screenprint by Andy Warhol. We discovered this example at Bond & Bowery, a great online resource for antiques and fine art, and thought this color-saturated Andy Warhol / Gertrude Stein screenprint is a fantastic find.

It's a very good piece, first of all. It helps that it’s a signed and numbered (187/200) Andy Warhol screenprint on Lenox Board, a version of a silkscreen lithograph.

It’s from a famous Warhol series consisting of ten portraits of notable Jews of the 20th Century. This one is of the famous ex-pat Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), an American writer who greatly impacted the development of contemporary art and literature.

In late November 2009, Andy Warhol breathed life into a soft art market by achieving a very solid price ($43.7 million!) for his silkscreen work entitled 200 One Dollar Bills. Andy would have been proud; when he was alive and his works were being offered at major auction houses, they weren’t always selling then and it would be a miserable time for him. He would take it personally. Now he continues to influence the world art market and is revered as an innovative, visionary artist.

The places to hang this Warhol are limited only by your imagination. It could hang anywhere. It's a piece that carries such a diverse appeal. If it were our Warhol, we'd hang it in a home library or den, living room, or any place where one would have time to contemplate the wonder of human achievement (a dining room, breakfast room, or even a kitchen would be a great way to add sizzle, color, and meaning to a wall space).

This piece comes from Bond and Bowery dealer Wells and Company from Binghamton, NY. It was done in an edition of only 200, so any homeowner interesting in purchasing this from us can be part of an elite group of collectors. Silkscreening, by the way, is a process where the same image is duplicated in different color palettes chosen by the person who executes the piece. Rupert Jansen Smith was Andy Warhol’s most prolific and trusted associate in this process.