No curiosities needed to make this cabinet curious. Drawing on Central European design traditions, the vitrine is layered with folkloric symbolism. A stern, leafy mascaron crowns the piece — clearly recalling the Green Man — flanked by stylised birds that lend it a mythic presence.
Wrought in iron, it stands on rope-twisted legs ending in curled, ball-tipped feet, with climbing vines meeting at a starburst brace beneath a dark, ornamented surface. The lacquered duck egg interior, softly lit through glazed side panels, contrasts with the cabinet’s shadowed exterior.
Though sourced in Sweden, it closely echoes 19th-century Germanic and Austrian Jugendstil ironwork — where nature and craft entwine. A rare, theatrical object with quiet authority.
Width 91, depth 59, height 158 cm.
Collection from Brixton, London or arranged delivery
No curiosities needed to make this cabinet curious. Drawing on Central European design traditions, the vitrine is layered with folkloric symbolism. A stern, leafy mascaron crowns the piece — clearly recalling the Green Man — flanked by stylised birds that lend it a mythic presence.
Wrought in iron, it stands on rope-twisted legs ending in curled, ball-tipped feet, with climbing vines meeting at a starburst brace beneath a dark, ornamented surface. The lacquered duck egg interior, softly lit through glazed side panels, contrasts with the cabinet’s shadowed exterior.
Though sourced in Sweden, it closely echoes 19th-century Germanic and Austrian Jugendstil ironwork — where nature and craft entwine. A rare, theatrical object with quiet authority.
Width 91, depth 59, height 158 cm.
Collection from Brixton, London or arranged delivery
