"The Veiled Male"
Gadfly
| quote: Originally posted by Frycek:   1862 Pleyel
Goddess! I love that carving!!
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-Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
http://www.doubleveil.net
1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good
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| Here's Bernard's malachite piano. I've been waiting for this specimen to resurface. It was first listed about six months ago. For $399,000 you'd think they could give us better pictures. I find it hard to believe someone would do this to a Steinway. (But then, I'm not impressed by musical instruments that remind me of a congealed salad, the kind involving lime jello and cottage cheese.) The velvet on the bench doesn't even match. I don't like the way that exposed wood is finished (or not) either. Anyone know how that stone casing wourld effect the tone?  quote: PART OF AN INCREDIBLE COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN MALACHITE DECORATIVE ART & FURNITURE. 19TH CEN. BRONZE DORE MOUNTINGS ON MOST PIECES.
The item shown here is a Steinway Piano circa 1936, the first year this model was introduced, with genuine Russian malachite marquetry and bronze dore mountings. This is not plastic, wood, paint, or synthetic material. It is real malachite, a semi-precious stone only master crafstmen can apply to furniture in a tedious and delicate process.
The piano is part of a collection of 11 pieces of malachite furniture we picked up from a dealer in south Florida who recently retired and closed his business. We understand this piece and the others we aquired, which include 2 vitrines, a rectangular center table, a pair of pedestals, a pair of candelabra, a tall clock, a chandelier, a large round entrance piece, were originally commissioned back in the thirties by a wealthy real estate developer.
We are motivated to sell the entire collection as one lot for $2,000,000, but will sell individual lots. Questions? Call David or Mark toll free at 1-888-249-1988, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday thru Saturday, or email davidantebi@nyc.rr.com. | Check out my other items!
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"The Veiled Male"
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| That *is* different - but I think I could like that, I think I could like that a lot! (What can I say...)
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-Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
http://www.doubleveil.net
1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good
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| quote: Originally posted by Zorba:
That *is* different - but I think I could like that, I think I could like that a lot!
(What can I say...)
It probably just needs the right light and setting.
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| quote: Originally posted by Zorba:
I love that one, and would KILL for that candelabra!
That's one I posted awhile back. It's in the Pleyel museum in Paris, supposedly Chopin once played it at Versailles. I expect he was less imaginatively dressed.
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| quote: Originally posted by Zorba: You call that "Imaginatively dressed"?!?  Well, at least he has a LITTLE bit of color!  
Sorry Zorba, You're imaginatively dressed, but much more tasteful. Actually if Chopin were living today I picture him wearing black or natural cashmere turtlenecks, designer jeans and black leather and very fine, very gentlemanly boots.
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"The Veiled Male"
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| quote: Originally posted by Frycek:
Sorry Zorba, You're imaginatively dressed, but much more tasteful. Actually if Chopin were living today I picture him wearing black or natural cashmere turtlenecks, designer jeans and black leather and very fine, very gentlemanly boots.
Perhaps, perhaps! At least this picture doesn't feature that bane of western civilization, the necktie! 
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-Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
http://www.doubleveil.net
1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good
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