Pair of Vintage Florentine Bookends 1960s luggage carved detail

carved detail

There is quite a lot of rusting on one of the buckets and bumps that one would expect but this all adds to the vintage charm

St Petersburg

These are the loveliest vintage kitchen step-ladders

A stunning brown canvas suitcase with leather straps all around

Pair of Vintage Florentine Bookends 1960s luggage carved detailA beautiful pair of little Florentine bookends. I adore the splash of turquoise with the gold. I love Florentine pieces. It is a centuries old tradition and often interprets the rich ornate detail of Renaissance decorative art pieces. The gold paint resembles gilding. Florentine gilt objects became popular in the late Victorian era and are even mentioned in Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray. There are some scratches and flakes of paint coming