{"title":"Art Deco Bookcases","description":"\u003cp\u003eArt Deco bookcases and open shelving in burr walnut veneer, made by hand: the Burlington, 180 cm high with twelve compartments open front and back, and the compact Savoy with two open tiers. Neither has doors or glass, so books and objects stay in view. Three pairs of bronze bookends, with elephants, lions or parrots, complete the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bronzen-olifanten-boekensteunen","title":"Bronze Elephant Bookends, Art Deco Pair","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese bronze elephant bookends pair two contrasting poses: one elephant strides forward with its trunk curled low, the other sits back on its haunches with the trunk raised straight up. A blue-green verdigris patina covers both animals, and the golden-brown bronze shows through on the high points of the hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach elephant stands on a stepped, profiled base with a flat vertical back plate, finished in warm golden-brown rather than green; the books are held between the two plates. The seated elephant is the larger, 27 cm high, the striding one 17.5 cm. Wrinkled hide, tusks and a flared ear are modelled in detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth are new pieces cast by hand in lost wax (\u003cem\u003ecire perdue\u003c\/em\u003e). Every casting starts from a wax of its own, which leaves small differences from one pair to the next, and the patina is then applied by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePairs of animals in contrasting poses, made to stand at the two ends of a row of books, belong to the Art Deco decorative-bronze trade of the 1920s and 1930s, and the elephant, long a sign of strength and steadiness, was one of its favoured motifs. On a library table, at either end of a run of large-format art books, the taller seated elephant takes the heavier end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772838555995,"sku":"KB0009","price":1195.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/Kuzco-bronze-sculpture-bookends-elephant-blue-green-patina-3.jpg?v=1763224157"},{"product_id":"bronzen-papegaaien-boekensteunen","title":"Bronze Parrot Bookends, Art Deco Pair","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo stylised parrots, each perched on a tall rectangular block, make up these bronze parrot bookends. The birds are turned towards each other but not mirrored: the left one lowers its head and tucks the hooked beak against its breast, while the right one holds its head up and turned away, its long pointed tail running down the front of the block.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contrast of surfaces carries the design. The bodies are smooth, closed and glossy in a dark brown patina that is almost black, with eye and beak only lightly marked; the blocks below have a mottled, crackled texture. At the foot each block continues into the flat tongue that slides under the books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bird reduced to one smooth, closed volume is typical of Art Deco animal sculpture of the 1920s and 1930s. François Pompon (1855–1933) removed detail step by step, reaching for ‘the very essence of the animal’, and the parrots follow that direction. Each new pair is hand-cast in bronze and patinated by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a sideboard, with a row of folio volumes between them, the two dark birds read as one composition, the raised head on one side answering the bowed head on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772884529499,"sku":"KB0012","price":6975.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/Kuzco_bronze_bookends_parrots_after_francois_pompon.jpg?v=1727093827"},{"product_id":"bronzen-leeuwen-boekensteun","title":"Bronze Lion Bookends - Art Deco Pair","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese bronze lion bookends form a mirrored pair of maneless cats, each on its own base against an upright plate. One rises on its haunches, a forepaw resting on the top of the plate and the head turned towards its companion; the other sits low with forelegs braced and head lowered almost to the plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe anatomy is closely observed: raised shoulder blades, taut flanks, separately cut toes. The patina is green-blue over the heads, backs and haunches, near black in the hollows and warmer where the surface is rubbed. Each base has a moulded front edge in a warm brown tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth lions are hand-cast in bronze using the lost-wax process (\u003cem\u003ecire perdue\u003c\/em\u003e); at about 4 kg each, the bookends keep a run of books upright. The pair is made in the manner of Georges Gardet (1863–1939), the Paris animal sculptor whose panthers are in the Musée d'Orsay. Paired lions are an old theme in sculpture: on Canova's tomb of Pope Clement XIII in St Peter's, Rome, one lion sleeps while the other keeps watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 22 cm high and 12 cm wide, the pair can hold a set of reference books on a writing desk, the two cats facing each other across the spines as one group.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772959568219,"sku":"KB0021","price":1195.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/Kuzco_bronze_bookends_lions_playing.jpg?v=1727093365"},{"product_id":"art-deco-boekenkast-burlington","title":"Art Deco Bookcase – Burlington","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Burlington is an open Art Deco bookcase in honey-toned burr walnut, 180 cm high; its twelve compartments have neither doors nor a back, so light passes straight through the grid. Both top corners are rounded in a generous curve, and the dark eyes of the burr run across every side panel, shelf and upright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the second and fourth rows the uprights shift slightly sideways, so the compartments sit in a gentle stagger rather than a rigid grid. Below, the carcass rests on glossy black spheres above a stepped plinth, whose lower board sweeps outwards at each end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach Burlington is newly made by hand: the leaves of veneer are hand-selected, and the whole is finished in several coats of varnish that bring out the depth of the burr. Its soft architectural outline and unornamented surfaces follow French Art Deco furniture, in which the figure of the wood did the work of decoration; the V\u0026amp;A describes Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann (1879–1933) as best known for his elegant lines and exotic wood veneers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 120 cm long, this burr walnut bookcase can fill the stretch of hallway wall between two doorways without crowding the passage. Each compartment then becomes a small stage for books, a bronze or a shell on a turned stand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51813626806619,"sku":"KME0011","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/kuzco-art-maison-art-deco-burl-wood-bookcase_2.jpg?v=1764253734"},{"product_id":"art-deco-bijzetkastje-savoy","title":"Art Deco Side Cabinet – Savoy","description":"\u003cp\u003eTall and slender, the Savoy is an Art Deco side cabinet in burr walnut veneer, open at front and back and divided by one shelf into two compartments of roughly equal height.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTop and sides form a single frame whose upper corners turn in a generous curve, so the veneer seems to pour over the edge and down each side. With no doors and no back panel, both compartments stay open to view from either side. The carcass is raised clear of a rectangular burr plinth on four glossy black ball feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach Savoy is veneered by hand, inside faces included, with leaves chosen for their flame figure and small dark knots, which stay clearly visible under the gloss varnish. Plain surfaces where the figure of the wood is the only ornament, soft outlines and spheres in black against pale veneer are among the traits of French Art Deco furniture that the piece takes up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly 30 cm deep and 48 cm wide, it fits the alcove beside a chimney breast, the upper compartment taking a small bronze or a lamp and the lower one a row of books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51814216139099,"sku":"KME0015","price":565.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/kuzco-art-maison-art-deco-burl-wood-two-tier-side-table-main.jpg?v=1764617074"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/collections\/kuzco-art-maison-art-deco-burl-wood-bookcase_6.jpg?v=1782579769","url":"https:\/\/kuzcoartmaison.com\/en\/collections\/art-deco-bookcases.oembed","provider":"Kuzco Art Maison","version":"1.0","type":"link"}