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Italian Baroque Style Serpentine Three-Drawer Commode, circa 1900.A serpentine-front commode with mirror-veneered walnut...
06/01/2026

Italian Baroque Style Serpentine Three-Drawer Commode, circa 1900.

A serpentine-front commode with mirror-veneered walnut reserves to the top, drawer fronts, and side panels. Raised on compressed bun feet with shaped brass hardware. Professionally refinished with even wear and patina retained throughout.

Height: 28.5 in. (72 cm.)
Width: 27.5 in. (70 cm.)
Depth: 16 in. (41 cm.)

Ref: 5672

https://www.epocasf.com/inventory/5672-italian-baroque-style-serpentine-3-drawer-commode

William StanisichSan Francisco Fog from Dog Patch no. 21980Watercolor on paper, signed and dated. Painted during the ear...
05/28/2026

William Stanisich
San Francisco Fog from Dog Patch no. 2
1980

Watercolor on paper, signed and dated. Painted during the early 1980s while working from the artist’s Potrero Hill studio. A view west across Dogpatch as fog moves over the industrial buildings and hills beyond. Float mounted under glass within an ash frame; signed on verso.

Height: 13.5 in. (34 cm.)
Width: 16.75 in. (43 cm.)
Depth: 1.5 in. (4 cm.)

Ref: 7002

epocasf.com — San Francisco Fog from Dog Patch no. 2

William StanisichSan Francisco Fog from Dog Patch #11980Watercolor on paper, signed and dated. Painted during the early...
05/28/2026

William Stanisich
San Francisco Fog from Dog Patch #1
1980

Watercolor on paper, signed and dated. Painted during the early 1980s while working from the artist’s Potrero Hill studio. A view across the warehouses and low industrial buildings of Dogpatch toward the western hills under advancing fog. Float mounted under glass within an ash frame; signed on verso.

Height: 13.5 in. (34 cm.)
Width: 16.75 in. (43 cm.)
Depth: 1.5 in. (4 cm.)

Ref: 7001

epocasf.com — San Francisco Fog from Dog Patch #1

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Classically-Inspired Italian 1960’s Urn-Form Lamps with Lion Mask MotifsEach in a rich egg yolk-yellow glaze with everte...
05/18/2026

Classically-Inspired Italian 1960’s Urn-Form Lamps with Lion Mask Motifs

Each in a rich egg yolk-yellow glaze with everted neck above an ovoid body with stylized laurel leaf perimeter band flanked by lion masks; all raised on a fluted splayed support resting on an ebonized wooden base.

Height: 16 in. (41 cm.) (top of ceramic)
28 in. (71 cm.) (top of shade)
Width: 9 in. (23 cm.)
Depth: 8 in. (20 cm.)

Ref: 5071
https://www.epocasf.com/inventory/5071-classically-inspired-italian-1960s-urn-form-lamps-lion-mask-motifs

[Financial Times]: Who are the tastemakers now?Few influencers have the same cultural gravitas as the late American heir...
05/10/2026

[Financial Times]: Who are the tastemakers now?

Few influencers have the same cultural gravitas as the late American heiress Bunny Mellon. By Jo Ellison, May 9, 2026

https://www.ft.com/content/d5e543f4-6505-4b4c-bd9e-e14496fbdd8c?shareType=nongift

'Mellon’s aesthetic was all about discretion: how things should not “be noticed”; not be too pristine. But in spite of her genteel and quiet persuasions, she was capable of epic profligacy (her grandson estimated her lifestyle cost about $20mn a year). The couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga kept a separate atelier solely to service her personal wardrobe and Mellon retained a private plane for use at any given moment, to fly in her handbag (which contained her lipstick and suntan lotion), and such like, as she moved from house to house. She spent millions of dollars creating a rustic idyll for her daughter Eliza’s coming-out party, employing staff to paint a moss effect on pebbles to make the landscape look more “real”.'

“Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life.” — John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice¹Large Pair Vin...
05/08/2026

“Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life.” — John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice¹

Large Pair Vintage Textured Iridescent Glazed Lamps with Emerald Green Striation, 1960s. Ref 5576. Antique Venetian Etched Glass Octagonal Cushion Mirror, 1920s/30s. Ref 5700. Shown with a French woodworker’s bench, circa 1880, an Arts & Crafts copper and iron peacock firescreen, circa 1880, and a collection of French confit jars — from .

epoca & Garden Court Antiques
1700 16th Street, San Francisco
Kansas at 16th — the SOMA Design District
Monday–Friday, 9–5 or by appointment
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¹John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, Vol. II, “The Nature of Gothic” (1853)

Tall Pair 1960s Bottle-form Striped Ceramic Lamps with Crackle Glaze FinishEach tall lamp with long neck above a taperin...
05/05/2026

Tall Pair 1960s Bottle-form Striped Ceramic Lamps with Crackle Glaze Finish

Each tall lamp with long neck above a tapering body, all in a crackle glaze finish with celadon, gray and buff stripes interspersed with gilt banding; raised on gilt painted wooden bases. Professionally rewired.

American, 1960s.

Height: 24 in. (61 cm.) — top of ceramic
Diameter: 6.5 in. (17 cm.)

Ref 5668

epocasf.com/inventory/5668-tall-pair-1960s-bottle-form-striped-ceramic-lamps-crackle-glaze-finish

“If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined a...
04/28/2026

“If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.”
— Edith Wharton & Ogden Codman Jr., The Decoration of Houses, 1897¹

A Napoleon III giltwood cartouche-shaped mirror, 19th century, with plumed crest, refreshed gilding, and aged mirror plate. Madeleine Liepe (Oregon/Switzerland, 1929–2017), The Edge of the Park, charcoal on paper, signed and dated 1970. Continental brass-mounted mahogany commode, circa 1860, and 19th-century French bombé-form boxes with ormolu mounts — from .

epoca & Garden Court Antiques
1700 16th Street, San Francisco
Kansas at 16th — SOMA Design District
Monday–Friday, 9–5 or by appointment
epocasf.com · gardencourtantiques.com

¹ Edith Wharton & Ogden Codman Jr., The Decoration of Houses (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897). Courtesy The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home, Lenox, Massachusetts.

Faye Dunaway’s Manhattan apartment at the El Dorado, 300 Central Park West, c. 1970: a horizontal slice through the towe...
04/18/2026

Faye Dunaway’s Manhattan apartment at the El Dorado, 300 Central Park West, c. 1970: a horizontal slice through the tower with views east to Central Park, south to Midtown, and west to the Palisades. The space combines two units on the 20th floor and was redesigned by architect Charles Gwathmey, who treated it as an experiment in living on a single continuous plane—black slate floors, widened window openings, and built‑in elements that define rooms without breaking the volume.

The master suite picks up those ideas in miniature: a floating bed with storage and shelving built into the headboard, and a tiled bathroom where the tub and chaise become part of a single flowing surface. It’s a fully worked‑through interior, but the palette stays stripped back—dark stone, white walls, and simple cabinetry—so that light and views do most of the decorating.

The apartment was photographed in the 1970s and later featured in Architectural Digest (often cited in later posts as a late‑’70s story with photographs by Derry Moore), and it’s now one of the better‑known examples of Gwathmey’s residential work in New York. We first saw these images via a recent post by on Threads and couldn’t resist tracing them back to their architectural origins.

Paul László for Brown-Saltman Basket Weave Sideboard1950sAsh sideboard designed by Paul László for Brown-Saltman, circa ...
04/15/2026

Paul László for Brown-Saltman Basket Weave Sideboard
1950s

Ash sideboard designed by Paul László for Brown-Saltman, circa 1950. Part of the “Basket Weave” collection, the design consists of two doors composed of convex square wooden tiles in a basket weave pattern with alternating grain, flanking three bookmatched drawers. The case is raised on tapered supports. Stamped Brown-Saltman Co., South Gate, California. Professionally refinished.

Height: 34 in. (86 cm.)
Width: 66 in. (168 cm.)
Depth: 19 in. (48 cm.)

Price: $14,500
Ref: 5488

https://www.epocasf.com/inventory/5488-rare-paul-l%C3%A1szl%C3%B3-brown-saltman-basket-weave-sideboard

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