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Style and Spirit. Pull up a comfy chair and select your game of choice. Chess, backgammon, poker, or just a game of cocktails? Easy transformations make our next generation game table into one of the most versatile pieces of furniture imaginable. Shipped disassembled, it makes for easy assembly, but also disassembly and storage. Brass details make this table an indestructible creation for generations of use. Learn More

The Camel Fair is held next to the temple of Savitri in Pushkar, Rajasthan. Once a year over 80,000 camels, cows, sheep, goats, and horses, some 200,000 merchants, farmers, bandits, thieves, and a variety of human existence gather to find enlightenment and-or commerce. This is where Mary and John Newby from Arkaroola (N.S.Wales) went every year in the Twenties to select camel breeding stock for the Australian outback. Bringing along a stock of fine wines like Ch‚teau Soutard and bottles of Vieille Reserve Armagnac 1883 to survive hardship, they strapped campaign boxes onto their Bentleys and headed to the desert for a week or so to live in tents. Learn More

Thereís more than just chess to this coolly refined little game table. Game tables made for Armies on the move always served multiple functions: end table, shaving bench, breakfast plateau. Two drawers hold chess and checker game sets. Or socks and ties. Spyglass and writing paper. Inlaid precious wood game board, classic mosaic-intarsia. Brass corners to protect against the rigors of transport. Elegantly curved hardwood legs with brass finials. Learn More

The Camel Fair is held next to the temple of Savitri in Pushkar, Rajasthan. Once a year over 80,000 camels, cows, sheep, goats, and horses, some 200,000 merchants, farmers, bandits, thieves, and a variety of human existence gather to find enlightenment and-or commerce. This is where Mary and John Newby from Arkaroola (N.S.Wales) went every year in the Twenties to select camel breeding stock for the Australian outback. Bringing along a stock of fine wines like Ch‚teau Soutard and bottles of Vieille Reserve Armagnac 1883 to survive hardship, they strapped campaign boxes onto their Bentleys and headed to the desert for a week or so to live in tents. Learn More

The early 1950s brought a burst of design innovation. Our retro desk lamp represents an industrial design focused on flexibility and ease of use. It continues to attract owners drawn by its simple, yet sturdy construction. Manufactured in solid brass, finished in bronze. Large and imposing, it will excel in retro interiors as well as in contemporary, modern settings. Learn More

A lamp for town and country. Universal appeal, in a style going back to the 1930s. Its natural flair combines well with its utilitarian design and illuminating purpose. Tightly jointed, easy to adjust and lock. Solidly constructed in brass. This lamp is built to last. Learn More

The many subtle details of this classic, 1920s French lamp easily impress. Yet in construction nothing was done easily. Every facet is well executed and perfect. An intriguing, solid counterweight balances the compact, bell-like shade. A mix of Bauhaus and French Deco. Easily invokes the spirit of Baudelaire and Proust. Learn More

A fifties industrial looking spotlight that may have lighted the stage of the Folies BergËres or the Sadler Wells Opera House. Form follows function in this entirely practical light that condenses and magnifies a fierce beam towards the stage. Or in our case, more probably a painting or an easy club fauteuil. Handcrafted inairplane aluminum. Hand polished. Easy to adjust and point. Folding aluminum tripod. Itís all in the detailÖ Learn More

The mud and sandstone walls hid the multistory palace of Imam Yahya, built in the 1930s. From one of the terraces where we were invited to dine in the evening we could look down some 1000 feet into the valley and the lights of the village. The floor was covered with bright carpets, pots with plants were everywhere, and the light came from candles set on tripods. Over chicken and lamb with lentils, followed by cake and cardamom tea, the Imam explained that the tripods were left by a British surveying expedition in the twenties, mapping the deserts and hills of Yemen. We were impressed by the fact that the metal and wood, combined with saddlerís leather straps, still looked fresh and new, obviously a combination of quality and form follows function. Learn More